Good news for tourists who fly to the Costa Brava via Ryanair.
The low-cost airline — used by many who vacation in Tossa de Mar, Lloret de Mar, Blanes and other places throughout Catalonia — has agreed to remain flying to and from Girona airport until at least 2016. Continue reading
Blanes statistics: population, hotels, campings, and more Continue reading
Whether you’ve vacationed in Blanes enough times to be recognized by the locals, or it’s your first visit to this wonderful beach resort, you owe it to yourself to sample some genuine Catalan dishes.
You’ll have to venture outside the tourist districts, but not all that far… Continue reading
If you came to Blanes this past weekend expecting to find the Gay Pride 2010 festival, you were out of luck.
The city, which just last year declared itself to be ‘gay friendly’, denied organizers a permit saying that gay tourism cannot coexist with the family-friendly image Blanes wants to portray. Continue reading
Earlier this year British newspaper The Independent quoted Antonio Moreno, president of Cacma, an animal rights association in the bullfighting heartland of Andalusia, as saying, “An overwhelming majority of Spaniards, 76 per cent according to Gallup surveys in 2009, are not in favor of bullfighting. However, only half that total want outright prohibition.”
The Catalan parliament, meanwhile, earlier this year agreed to consider outlawing the controversial practice across the region Continue reading
