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“To Pamplona we will go” people sing during the festival of San Fermín, which is just one of the many popular fiestas celebrated in Spain throughout the year. Let’s take a trip through the country following the most highlighted dates of the festive calendar.
Every year, countless tourists make the pilgrimage to the place where Sherlock Holmes is supposed to have died – the Reichenbach Falls, near Meiringen, in northern Switzerland. Die Welt looks back at the famous detective, and his final days — and how those pages of literature have become a driving force for locals to market their land to tourists.
The emblematic palace of King Louis XIV, born from the will of his father Louis XIII, is celebrating its 400th anniversary. Throughout its adaptation to different eras and restoration, the work has (almost) never stopped.
The clumsy restoration of a mural of Christ in a Spanish chapel 10 years ago shocked, then amused Spaniards and millions more abroad, and gave the local town a level of publicity, and tourist revenues, it never had nor could have hoped for. Here’s how it looks 10 years later.