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Non-year round occupied housing (3) Seasonal
Seasonal housing ratio in Spanish municipalities with population over 2.000 in 2011 San Javier, in the Murcia region, is the Spanish municipality with the higher seasonal housing ratio. In a grand...
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Montpellier (5)
Images from http://www.geoportail.fr portraying the area in a Carte d’Etat Major prior to 1866 and in its current status. The river Lez ends in the Mediterranean sea, some 8 miles south of Montpellier....
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Biblio (41) The Odyssey
Ithaca nowadays, in a Landsat Image. You can see it in http://landsatlook.usgs.gov/ , northeast from Kefalonia, south of Corfu (a direct link would be against the spirit of the book). And I’m not sure...
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Tourism spaces (4a) Cidade do Samba
2013 parade in the Sambodromo. Image by Fora do Eixo, http://www.flickr.com/photos/foradoeixo/8462879433/ As experiences go, the Rio de Janeiro Carnival seems a good example, but ¿what does it mean in...
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Tourism spaces (4b)
View Larger Map A tourism experience can be inseparable from a location or reproducible in any place, and this later condition can still imply a relation with space, or more precisely, the way in which...
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Tourism space (4d)
Space travel: that must be an experience for your money. The space into a capsule must be quite narrow, but there is a sci-fi feeling in Spaceport America, a project by Norman Foster’s team.
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Tourism space (4e)
I must acknowledge that for this last week I have somehow forced what some experts would consider experiential tourism. The Spanish Ministry for Industry, Energy and Tourism, in partnership with the...
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A saturday afternoon in Madrid
The Sky as seen from the A3 (Valencia freeway) looking towards the urban core. After some rainy days, yesterday there was a nice afternoon, and the urban core was full of people cellebrating the King’s...
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How many tourists are here today?
Counting umbrellas on the sand is far from being a tested methodology… Sure, there is a little trap in the question: in statistical terms, in Spain a tourist is a person that moves from his usual home...
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Tórtoles
Aerial view of Tórtoles, by Ricardo Melgar on Panoramio. His collection of images of Castille is simply excellent. Tórtoles de Esgueva is a small village in Ribera del Duero (Burgos province, Spain),...
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Trentemoult
Trentemoult, a small traditional village on the Loire river, just off Nantes, is a clear reminder that sometimes ratios and figures will tell you just a part of the story. This is one of the densest...
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Unexpected meetings (7)
To be honest, the title here is not entirely accurate: I knew about the landscape interest of Gata (Cáceres, Spain), and in fact I was in a visit preceded by a quite complete briefing. The unexpected...
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Maps 2014 (13) Walk NYC
Here is a map that (apparently) can only be consulted in the streets of New York. The classical pedestrian map, that lets you find your way, has been subject to an interesting approach in the American...
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Maps 2014 (16) Denia, Spain
Just a visit to an old fortress, nowadays besieged by tourism
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Sigüenza
Just about an hour drive from Madrid, with some 5.000 residents, far from anything similar to a metro area, but with a substantial architecture. A small European town.
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Things I saw while on break
The Danube near Vienna, as seen from Khalenberg Hill For those that have followed this blog during the last years, here is the proof it has not disappeared. Just a small fraction of that time was a...
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Maps 2014 (34) Vienna Digital Map
The Vienna digital map is one among the herd of web platforms displaying cartography with a degree of detail adapting to the visualization scale. It stands out as there is an elegant selection of...
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De los Alpes al Atlántico (5) La Grande-Motte, Neufert y el retro futurismo
Cuando estudiaba en la Escuela de Arquitectura había un libro básico para los novatos: Arte de Proyectar en Arquitectura, de Ernst Neufert. No se trataba de su metodología de proyecto, sino de su...
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