In 1897 a group of students and lecturers from the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, including several graduates from both Cambridge and Oxford, organised themselves into a football team which played matches on Sunday mornings. Over the coming years a number of other teams emerged and in 1902 Madrid Football Club …
The Costa Dorada begins to the west of Sitges on the coast of Catalonia and runs for over 200km as far as the Ebro Delta. Whilst it isn’t as well known as come of the more famous Spanish Costas to the south it still attracts more than 3½ million annual …
Every football fan in Europe should take a FC Barcelona Football Break at least once in their life and enjoy the experience of a match at the Nou Camp Stadium.
FC Barcelona has long been a favourite football club for fans all over the world. This popularity is thanks to its long standing reputation for uniting some of the world’s greatest footballers who are drilled in playing open and attractive football in the club’s famous blue and claret shirts. Fans …
With a coastline of 5000km which includes the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts as well as the Balearic and Canary Islands there is no shortage of scuba diving opportunities in Spain. In fact Spain has the largest coastline of the EU yet surprisingly it has only relatively recently joined the list …
The Rías Baixas are five flooded river valleys which form estuaries on the coast of Galicia in north-west Spain. The region is famous for its dry and fruity white wines produced almost exclusively with the Albariño grape which thrives in the moist, coastal, climate of Galicia. Whilst it was the …
Whilst Rioja wines tend to be the favourite tipple of Spanish wine lovers around the world, it is the Ribero Del Duero wine region which produces some of the country’s finest red wines. Its vineyards are spread across the elevated northern plains of Valladolid, Burgos, Segovia and Soria in Castilla …
Located in the north of Spain between the rivers Oja and Ebro, the Rioja wine region is the most widely recognised ‘denominación de origin’ which produces some of the country’s finest red wines. It is divided into the three sub-regions of Rioja Alta, Rioja Alavesa and Rioja Oriental (previously Rioja …
Sherry (Vino de Jerez) is a fortified wine which is produced exclusively within a small area in the province of Cadiz known as the ‘Sherry Triangle’. The three towns which make up this area are Jerez de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa Maria and Sanlucar de Barrameda. Dry sherries …
