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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate><image><title>exploriada.com</title><link>http://en.exploriada.com</link><url>http://en.exploriada.com/imgs/logo.jpg</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[The New Bridge In Ronda (Spain)]]></title><link>http://en.exploriada.com/places/place/tourist-attractions/other-monuments-and-places/the-new-bridge-in-ronda</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:53:34 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The New Bridge connects the old city with the newer parts of Ronda and its suburbs. Taking some 42 years to complete, the bridge dates to 1751. The bridge dramatically transverses the El Tajo canyon.

To view the New Bridge, as seen in the photographs here, you will need to find the Plaza Maria Auxiliadora; it is not far from the Palacio de Mondragón. At the south end of the Plaza Maria Auxiliadora there is a ...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moorish Bridge In Ronda (Spain)]]></title><link>http://en.exploriada.com/places/place/tourist-attractions/antiquity-and-ancient-civilisations/moorish-bridge-in-ronda</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:51:39 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sometimes called the Roman bridge, as it was thought to have been built on the foundations of an earlier Roman bridge, this was promptly abandoned when the 16th century expansion of the Mercadillo district required a better link with the Ciudad. Then, the Guadelevín was a much deeper river - 19th century photographs show large rowboats navigating it, now impossible with the river diverted for irrigation and domestic use - and prone to flooding. Eventually, ...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Bridge Of Ronda (Spain)]]></title><link>http://en.exploriada.com/places/place/tourist-attractions/other-monuments-and-places/old-bridge-of-ronda</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:41:55 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Built in the 16th century, possibly on remnants of an earlier bridge, this was the one navigable link between Mercadillo and La Ciudad until the completion of the Puente Nuevo centuries later. Cars still need good gears and drivers with steely nerves to take the steep hairpin bend on the way up to the cuesta de Santo Domingo. The gate above the bridge, the Arco de Felipe V, from the same era, would have been ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/thumb/jpg/4accefe165b94/</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Casa Del Rey Moro (Spain)]]></title><link>http://en.exploriada.com/places/place/tourist-attractions/castles-palaces-and-halls/casa-del-rey-moro</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:35:34 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Casa del Rey Moro is to some extent a fraud, since the house was never the home of the Moorish King. It was built in the 18th Century, when Moorish Spain was already a distant memory. Its apparently Moorish gardens are even more recent, having been designed by the French landscape gardener, Jean Claude Forestier, in 1912.

But the house does incorporate one genuine and important relic of Ronda's Moorish occupation - the so-called Water ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/thumb/jpg/4aca58d650b10/</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ronda's Plaza De Toros (Spain)]]></title><link>http://en.exploriada.com/places/place/tourist-attractions/other-monuments-and-places/rondas-plaza-de-toros</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:18:14 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It was a music video by Madonna (Take A Bow) that made Ronda's bullring famous with young people world wide . The song had nothing to do with bullfighting but the video did feature a real bullfighter, Emilio Muñoz, and some nifty aerial views of the historic bullring of Ronda.

Ronda is considered the birthplace of modern bullfighting and its bullring was famous even before Madonna. It was here in the 16th century that Philip II ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/thumb/jpg/4aca54cbc553c/</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alhambra (Spain)]]></title><link>http://en.exploriada.com/places/place/tourist-attractions/castles-palaces-and-halls/alhambra</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:49:42 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Alhambra is a palace and fortress complex of the Moorish rulers of Granada in southern Spain (known as Al-Andalus when the fortress was constructed during the mid 14th century), occupying a hilly terrace on the southeastern border of the city of Granada.

Once the residence of the Muslim rulers of Granada and their court, the Alhambra is now one of Spain's major tourist attractions exhibiting the country's most famous Islamic architecture, together with Christian 16th ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/thumb/jpg/4aca416bcf5be/</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ramblas (Spain)]]></title><link>http://en.exploriada.com/places/place/tourist-attractions/other-monuments-and-places/la-rambla</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:08:46 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[La Rambla is a street in central Barcelona, popular with both tourists and locals alike.

A 1.2 kilometer-long tree-lined pedestrian mall between Barri Gòtic and El Raval, it connects Plaça Catalunya in the center with the Christopher Columbus monument at Port Vell.

La Rambla can be crowded, especially during prime time tourist season. Most of the time, there are many more tourists than locals occupying las Ramblas -- this has changed the shopping selection, as well as ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/thumb/jpg/4aaacaed43c5a/</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Casa Mila (Spain)]]></title><link>http://en.exploriada.com/places/place/tourist-attractions/castles-palaces-and-halls/casa-mila</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:02:30 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Casa Mila is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí for Milà family and built during the years 1906–1910, being considered officially completed in 1912.

The façade is an impressive wave-like mass of rough-shipped stone.
The windows and doors seem to be dug out of this stone mass and are trimmed in exquisitely crafted wrought iron work with vegetal forms on the balconies and astonishing grilles on the two street-doors.

On the stepped terrace, coming as ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/thumb/jpg/4aa958f2f1e29/</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Casa Batlló (Spain)]]></title><link>http://en.exploriada.com/places/place/tourist-attractions/castles-palaces-and-halls/casa-batllo</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:57:20 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Casa Batlló is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in the year 1877 and remodelled in the years 1905–1907.

The local name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), and indeed it does have a visceral, skeletal organic quality.

The building looks very remarkable — like everything Gaudí designed, only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/thumb/jpg/4aa95b14a67f2/</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Church Of Sagrada Familia (Spain)]]></title><link>http://en.exploriada.com/places/place/tourist-attractions/places-of-religious-interest-and-monasteries/church-of-sagrada-familia</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:31:44 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Sagrada Família is a massive, privately-funded Roman Catholic church that has been under construction in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain since 1882 and is not expected to be complete until at least 2026.
It was designed by famous architecte Antonio Gaudí (1852–1926), who worked on the project for over 40 years. Gaudi devoted the last 15 years of his life entirely to the endeavor.
Every part of the design of La Sagrada Família is rich with Christian symbolism, ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/thumb/jpg/4aa93220eec00/</imgthumb></item><item><title><![CDATA[Güell Park (Spain)]]></title><link>http://en.exploriada.com/places/place/tourist-attractions/natural-wonders-caverns-and-parks/gell-park</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:17:52 +0100</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Created by the renowned Spanish architect, Antonio Gaudí between 1900 and 1914, Parc Güell is a fantasy land that combines the natural and the man-made. The park was originally conceived as a residential garden city and built for Gaudí’s patron, Eusebi Güell Bacigalupi, a textile manufacturer who had a keen interest in the arts and helped develop the architect’s career. The project was not a great commercial success, however, and the park became municipal property ...]]></description><imgthumb>http://en.exploriada.com/thumb/jpg/4aa932c5ef144/</imgthumb></item></channel></rss>
