Tag: Spain
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Cadaques and megalithic dolmens
Megalithic structures are those made with large (mega) stones (lithic) and I’m going to say usually a long time ago because we humans seem to have stopped exerting such great individual effort to build small structures from such large materials. (We’ve instead distributed the great effort and probably exert more than ever. Think about the…
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Teatro-museo Dalí, Figueres
Surrealism might be one of my favorite things across the arts. It takes a certain flavor of imagination to create something so unexpected and complex. Even when he painted in a more traditional style (like the baskets of bread, or his portraits of Gala) there’s something more than meets the eye. We did a guided…
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Roses, España
Roses is a city on the Costa Brava in Catalonia, Spain. It’s name derives partially from the Ancient Greek colony, Rhode (named by explorers from Marseille) founded here sometime between the 8th and 5th centuries BCE among the furthest west of the empire. The Romans came along and eventually threw out the Greeks, then the…
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The Flysch
Our last few nights in Spain were spent in a camper cabin in the Basque Coast Geopark, a region spanning the coast between the cities of Mutriku and Zumaia that features unique geology. There are 94 such parks Europe (inclusive of Turkey and Russia) and it’s another locally-administered, independently managed, UNESCO joints like the Urdaibai…
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Birds and Bilbao: Basque Country
Yesterday, we left Urdaibai Bird Center extremely glad we prioritized this stop. The Urdaibai Biosphere Preserve’s status reminds me a bit of the Adirondacks Park in New York. It’s not a national park, neither is it entirely or even mostly government-owned land. Still, it’s a specific region packed full of recreational opportunity and science and…