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Tarragona: educational holidays for children
How do you take the youngsters out of the city without their parents getting bored? The answer is simpler than it might seem. One of the options is called Les Esplanes Nature Class, where not only nature is generous. Here the owners Xavi and Mar deal with offering all kinds of educational activities while entertaining and satisfying the children’s leisure needs without excluding their parents. Les Esplanes is in Nulles, a town near the Catalan city of Tarragona, and has just about everything. To start with, the families can stay in a small apartment next to the main house or in one of the conditioned caravans. As well as unbeatable value for money -
Indie music for children
No, children do not only want to sing popular traditional songs or what they see on television each day. Many or all of them can also enjoy the most independent rock and pop. Minimúsica defends this idea with small festivals for children and adults at different points of Spain. The basis of the Minimúsica festivals is an educational project intended to freely generate artistic and musical interest in children. With bands well-known on the Spanish independent stage, Minimúsica seeks to offer tools for the young to develop their creativity, and it also does so by breaking down the strict frontiers sometimes placed between the concerts for the young and old. Pu -
SLEEPING IN THE GREATEST SHOW ON ERATH
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 -
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A Visit to the Dinosaur Exhibition
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Fallas in Valencia with children
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Carnival in Spain
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Skirts with wheels and flying glasses
Time and space suddenly go on standby for Blanca, a nine-year-old girl visiting the Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum with mum and dad. A sign says that the moving metal structure that has caught the girl’s attention is a work called Remote Control II, created by the Czech artist Jana Sterbak in 1989 and brought into the museum's collection in 1996. But Blanca has not stopped to read this, she already knows what it is: “Mummy look! It is a long skirt with wheels that you can get on”, she concludes after studying the find a second time. “It's missing the cloth of cover your legs, but if you put it on you don't have to walk. And you are taller. Do they se -
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