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The Picasso Museum is a clear example of the links between this universal artist and the city of Barcelona. Here, not only did he receive a sound academic training, but the artistic effervescence that he experienced in the city was the force that opened up his path towards modernity.
Inaugurated in 1963, the museum has the largest, most exhaustive collection of works by Pablo Picasso as a young man, during his training, and it also hosts temporary exhibitions by other artists.
Museums
Regional Museum.
Artistic style: Contemporary Art.
Museum subject matter: Painting.
Information for visits
Timetables: Tuesday-Sunday, and public holidays, 10am-8pm. Closed: Mondays, 1 January, 1 May, 24 June, 25 and 26 December.
Entry fee:
General admission: €6. Reduced: €4. Free: children under 16 years, pensioners, ICOM (International Council of Museums) members, with ID, first Sunday of every month, Wednesday afternoons for groups of students, 18 May and 24 September.
All of Barcelona within reach
€ 320 Come and visit Barcelona on foot. It is a wonderful way to discover its streets, monuments and the hotels in Barcelona …
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The City council of Madrid has installed a point of permanent tourist information in the confluence of the street of Santa Isabel and the public square of Atocha, in the denominated Stroll of the Art. He will allow that the visitors of the National Museum Center of Art Queen Sofía and of the museums of the Prado and Thyssen can successfully obtain the information necessary to cross the capital and to discover all their corners. 

The area of Government of Economy and Use, through Patronage of Tourism, opened to Monday this new informative point, that completes the cover throughout the axis Prado-Recoletos. The location of the new center is strategic to take care of the travellers who arrive at Madrid in train by their proximity with the station of Atocha. The information point, that he will be open 365 days to the year in schedule of 9,30 to 20,30 hours uninterruptedly, is focused to provide information in different languages from tourists on the cultural supply, of leisure, lodging or how to move by the city. Source: madridiario.es

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Although at this point of July nobody, vacations by means of, want to think about the autumn, the only thing surely is that it will arrive. Serve these lines of incentive to stimulate the return. Then, when the suntan oil is only a distant memory (of the 15 of October to the 18 of November), 34 international companies of which better conjugate the verb to act will be mentioned in 25 scenes of the Community of Madrid. The numbers (550 artists) and the names squash as it is custom in the Madrilenian appointment, but some consequence can be extracted of the poster of this year is that some of the great creators have established an artistic bond with the capital. It is the case of Peter Brook, that, after his fecund visit to the Abbey, it returns east year by double game (with “Fragments”, text based of Beckett and “The Grand Inquisitor”, inspired by an episode of “the Karamazov brothers”). Source: larazon.es

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People in charge of the ONG `Right Tourism’ have sent to the guide `responsible Tourism: 30 proposals of trip `, first from these characteristics that are published in Europe and that proposes a more enriching way `to travel’ that, in addition, benefits the local populations. 

The publication is signed by the president of the ONG, Carles Tudurí, and several collaborators of the organization -’ turismojusto.org’ -, been born in Spain in March of 2006 and that it has like objective to foment the sustainable tourist development.

The metode of selection to elaborate this guide have prioritized the geographic location of the establishments, as well as the quality of their supply of services and the singularity of their facilities. Source: actualidad.terra.es

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President of Castile-The Mancha, Jose Maria Barreda, will attend the Fair of Libro of Madrid tomorrow to present/display `Looking for Spain in Rome. Yesterday and today of an historical presence’, Manuel Espadas builds of ciudadrealeño Towns. 

The author shows through a test of historical and literary archaeology the presence of Spain in the capital of Italy. Its long stay in Rome has allowed to track and to document the tracks him in this city of Spain and some Spaniards, between whom it honors Miguel de Cervantes.
To this work of meticulous investigation and historiográfica revision the photographies of Juan are added Carlos Garci’a Allies, in their majority unpublished, which they contribute to redescubrir Rome through the track that in this city has left to España.Durante the presentation of the book, that will take place in the Pavilion of the Foundation `Circle of Readers’ of the Fair of Libro of Madrid, president Barreda and Manuel Espadas Towns will be accompanied by the journalist Dove Go’mez Borrero; by the professor of the Complutensian University Fernando Garci’a Sanz; and by the president of the publishing house Lunwerg, Juan Carlos Briñardeli Moon. Source: miciudadreal.es

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Aguirre has decided to change of Council the tourism competitions. Until now they were in the one of Economy, whose in front one has confirmed Fernando Merry of the Val, and for the new legislature it has passed them to the one of Culture (that loses Sport), whose in front Santiago Fisas stays that, with this change passes to be advisor of Culture and Tourism. 

On the other hand, with this remodeling of the Madrilenian Government after the last elections, vacancy has left the presidency of the Partnership of Tourism of the Community of Madrid, since his until now president, Ana Isabel Mariño, it has been named advisor of Vivienda.Fuente: hosteltur.com

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Spain has made in Seoul the first scale of a tour by South Korea, Taiwan and Japan, with which the Ministry of Tourism wants to harness new markets. The visit of the Spanish delegation to the South Korean capital agrees with the beginning of the direct flight of Korean Air that will connect Seoul and Madrid as of the next Saturday. 

The director of the department again Market of the Ministry of Tourism, Galician Carlos, assures that South Korea is one of the “high-priority markets” of Spain in Asia, since annually it receives the visit of between 40,000 and 50,000 South Koreans. One is a tourist profile with an elevated cost and that does not suffer estacionalidad. Source: hosteltur.com

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The first Governing body of the City council of Madrid in the new municipal mandate approved the creation of the Office of Strategy and Action the Global International `Madrid’, inspired by the model of promotion in the outside that cities like Paris, London, New York or Tokyo apply. This organism will depend on Vicealcaldía that directs Manuel Cobo and to the front they will have to until now coordinating of Economy, Ignacio Niño. 

The City council indicated that “in this globalizado century XXI, a city like Madrid, that aspires to the category of world-wide metropolis, must as much have a global and international vision in its direction as in its strategy and management”. For that reason, it has bet to extend the performances and own works of “traditional” the international relations and has decided “to complement them with new approaches, strategies, programs and tools able to guarantee and to assure a solid international positioning the city of Madrid in the next decades”. Source: hosteltur.com

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When a great temporary exhibition is celebrated, the Museum of the Prado (Madrid, Spain) receives more national visitors (57%) who foreign (43%). On the contrary, the permanent collection receives more foreign visitors in practically inverse proportion. Most of the Spanish public who visit comes it from the Community of Madrid (58%), Andalusia (9%), Catalonia (6%) and Castile and Leon (6%). On the other hand, the United States (17%) and Japan (14%) lead the ranking of foreign visitors, according to data of the Institute of Tourist Studies (IET). 

Between the drawn conclusions of the surveys, it emphasizes the one that the temporary exhibitions of the museum act like a powerful center of attraction and fidelización of public, being his mainly national visitors, against the dynamics registered in it visits to the permanent collection.

With respect to the geographic origin of the public of the Museum, the report keeps awake that, between the foreigners, the United States is located in the first position of the ranking of visitors, followed of Japan, Italy, France, United Kingdom, Germany and México.Fuente: hosteltur.com

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