Living in the circus is one of the most recurrent of children’s dreams. Every child has felt attracted at some time by life amongst tightrope walkers, clowns, lion tamers and contortionists, and discovering life amongst the tent poles. Now it is possible to make a dream come true and see a form of life now in danger of extinction. We are talking about the Raluy circus, one of the most famous and oldest in Spain (in 1996 the Ministry of Culture gave it the National Circus Award). Today it is permanently on tour and can be considered to be travelling museum because it explains a small part of the country’s history. Its owners, Carlos and Luis Raluy, keep up the family tradi

  Not only is northern Europe can you bathe in a well at over 37 degrees when outside it is freezing cold. You can also do it in Andalusia, and specifically in Alhama de Granada.   On the hillside of the sierra de Tejera (Granada), the name says it all. “Al-hama” is “the bath” in Arabic. The Arabs gave the town its name, but the spa waters had been enjoyed long before. As far back as the 1st century, the Romans already appreciated its waters. It was they who built the warm base inviting one to bathe in the town’s spa.   As in all spas, in Alhama, a kind of capital for Andalusian spa therapy, there are different ways to take

  For those not accustomed to contact with nature and getting by with just what they need, camping may be the synonym of uncomfortable holidays. However, forget this image of camping because it is changing and now even the most delicate of tourists can feel at home in some of the most unspoilt corners of Spain.   In Spain, the camping boom occurred in the 1970s largely because of the European tourists, who were much more accustomed to going around with their homes and camping where the fair winds blew. Much time has passed, and although the sector is still in good shape, many people who decide to spend their free time in a tent are more and more demanding. And this &

  According to the Real Academia de la Lengua (Spanish Royal Academy) wine, “is an alcoholic liquor made from the juice of squeezed grapes and cooked naturally by fermentation”. The academic institution itself distinguishes the least four tens of types of broths. Drunk in a glass, in a chato, skin or porrón, well in almost all places, but not in La Rioja. Here there are only two ways to take the brew: to drink it or to experience it. The region's rural houses open their doors to understand the tasting from the vine. The pleasure of ‘ experiencing’ wine.   The Puelles family cannot understand the land without grapes. Residents of the