Millions of eyes look to the heavens as cameras and mobile phones capture the Blanes night sky lit up by the majestic fireworks set off from Sa Palomera, the iconic rock that juts from the Mediterranean Sea. It’s one of those unforgettable nights at the end of July when visitors flock to this stunning setting to enjoy one of the most thrilling and unmissable fireworks shows in Europe...

Girona´s cuisine is not the result of chance. It is not a recent invention product of the success, the ingenuity and the capacity of innovation of contemporary personages, but it has a past, and very powerful. It contains an Iberian, Phoenician, Greek, Roman, Arab, Jewish ... and, currently, Asian, African and American legacy. Catalan cuisine - and the Girona one - is heiress of all the Mediterranean cuisines and, today, also a miscellany of the kitchens of the world.

It is interesting that all his early paintings Picasso signed by his double surname: Pablo Ruiz Picasso. The artist began to use the signature “Picasso” only after having moved to Paris. There were several reasons for that. Firstly, the word “Ruiz” is hard for the French pronunciation. Moreover, the surname “Ruiz” is rather widespread and typical in Spain. Secondly, Picasso was advised to find a pleasantly sounding and an eye-catching title-name...