Tourism in Spain

Snowboarding in Spain has another meaning beautiful

 It is the tenth in the evening «Vielha» major cities and remote Aran Valley Pyrenees Mountains, and it is the time to start the restaurants served dinner; begins where customers fleeing from the noise of restaurants that serve tapas in the flow.

  Do not open any of the nightclubs in Phippla their doors before midnight, it is a way of life in Spain, which holds a different rhythm of life and enjoy it reflects the art

. Here in the United States, focusing ski trips in the habit of enjoying the ice and skiing as a sport, but it is quite different in Spain, where limited skiing Parhat et al short interspersed periods enjoy eating; terms similar to ambrosia and eat food delicacy and staying up the middle of the night and have dinner with friends , skiing on ice in importance and perhaps even beyond as well

 Let's acknowledge first that the person who wants to spend the holiday would not spend so much Taúl of money, and faces a language barrier and suffering from disorders of long flights, which have then to drive the car for four and a half hours to reach the city valley mountain building for just searching for depressions ideal for exercise skiing

 . Indeed, the desire to explore new places is what you pay for these people to cross the Atlantic. I travel to explore new horizons, and to set foot on the road wrapped around the cattle pens that emit the smell of cows true, in addition to enjoy dishes «Gamba Ajello» (shrimp with garlic) slowly in one of those bars that fill the bustle of dialogues exchanged between customers three or four different languages ​​or for lunch one of the small restaurants that serves the dish «Alfoagra» (goose or duck liver), followed by diced lamb cooked over charcoal

Maybe you can ski or access to one of the snowy peaks in many of the other resorts in the Alps or the American West, but the system of life is different, and tapas, and the mix of French cuisine - the Spanish, the language Alaranih, and Warm Springs, and attending all night; all these things can not be found anywhere except in this valley unique hiding behind the rugged peaks:

It is the fictional picturesque place between Spain and France. Extends «Aran Valley» from east to west, which is the only valley in the Pyrenees; alone, which constitutes the northern part of the borders of modern Spain with France. It also isolated valley The cold winter is the only place that has never split feudal both for the benefit of France or Spain, as it is the form of one of the first communities in Europe.

Due to receiving a form of self-government, has the form of a model for the rule of Aleranez permitted to participate in the resorts, forests and arable land. The name reflects its role as a meeting point of the valley between the culture of the sea medium Catalan and Basque influence of the Atlantic; as the «Val» is the meaning of the Catalan word for «valley», and «Aran» is the Basque word meaning «Valley» also,

   Thus, the ideal translator for the name of the valley is «Valley Valley». In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, the Republicans hid losers here for several years, until the forces of Francisco Franco managed to dig a tunnel in the end passes through the mountains to reach the last strongholds of the insurgency.

 And that's where the incision was the first road car across Biga Bass in 1925, and was completed to create a tunnel that connects the south valley in 1948. Shows the valley contemporary mix of architectural styles, with construction cranes sprouting from beginning to end. Residential complexes, administrative buildings, antique wooden furniture, traditional villages made ​​of stone and slate rocks, and small villages established in order to look as if all related to traditional villages across the valley through which the road follows the river path Garonna.

On the eastern side of the valley, spread lifts the cable car in a large series of corridors that give skiers a chance ski slopes unpaved, The Village Baqueira original created a resort for skiing in 1964, and characterized this village as the village contemporary but very operations of modern development that has it simulates the traditional architectural style of the Pyrenees, which depends on the stones. In 1985, the village was supplied Ptlfrick new or so-called ski lifts to transport skiers in the valley of pyrite.

Converge and where Baqueira Beret and together constitute what is known as Baqueira - Beret. Since that was the unification of the two valleys, the resort has been expanded and add more lifts by cable car, in addition to the new hotels.