Just released this 2017, it is time to start thinking about what will be the getaways that we will make this year. There are eleven months to go before it ends, but it is convenient to plan the destinations that we want to visit this year. Summer is a great season to go to paradisiacal beaches or to travel abroad, but the spring and autumn bridges are excellent occasions to make a getaway within our borders. Here are 5 places to visit in Spain in 2017 that are celebrating their anniversary or celebrating very special celebrations.
400th anniversary of the Plaza Mayor in Madrid
In 2017 the mythical Plaza Mayor in Madrid will celebrate its 400th anniversary. The city council of the capital has prepared for the occasion an interesting cultural agenda and special lighting to further embellish the ancient Madrid square.
In its origins, due to its location outside the city, it was called Plaza del Arrabal and the most popular market in the town was located here at the end of the 1617th century, when Felipe II moved the court to Madrid. In XNUMX, King Felipe III entrusted the architect Juan Gómez de Mora to give uniformity to the buildings of this place that for centuries has hosted beatifications, coronations and popular festivities, among other acts.
The works ended in 1620, three years later. However, its current neoclassical design is the work of Juan de Villanueva, who had to rebuild the Plaza Mayor as a result of several fires that damaged it greatly.
It is estimated that each year more than 10 million people visit the Plaza Mayor in Madrid. Will you be one of them this 2017?
200th anniversary of the birth of Zorrilla
Valladolid is already preparing the celebrations related to the bicentennial of the popular writer José Zorilla. The year of the author of "Don Juan Tenorio" will officially begin on February 21 (the day of his birth) and will end on January 23, 2018 (the day that marks the 175th anniversary of his death in Madrid).
In addition to the planned programming of works by Zorrilla in the theaters of the city, the list of events is extensive. The exhibitions "Genios and Ingenios en la España de Zorrilla", "The readings of Zorrilla" (from February 21 to March 28 at the Casa Revilla) and "Legends recreated by Zorrilla and their popular repercussion in alleluia and folletones" ( from April 1 at the headquarters of the Association of Old and Old Booksellers of Castilla y León).
Likewise, the Church of the French will host a photographic tour focused on the most important Spanish writers from Romanticism to the beginning of the XNUMXth century. It will be named "José Zorrilla and the Face of the Letters."
A visit to the house-museum of the writer in Valladolid will put the finishing touch to the 200th anniversary of his birth. In it you can see memorabilia and personal objects of the poet objects, furniture of later acquisition that recreate an interior from the romantic period, some diplomas he received, part of his private library and his funeral mask in plaster, the work of Aurelio Carretero.
800th anniversary of the Lovers of Teruel
A hundred cultural events have prepared this year Teruel to celebrate 800 years of the tragic love story that gave rise to the famous legend of the Lovers of Teruel. His mummified remains rest in a mausoleum that is visited annually by more than 100.000 people.
His story of impossible love, which ended their lives, also inspires the massive medieval festivities of The Weddings of Isabel de Segura, which fill the city with visitors and transform the appearance of the center of the capital for a few days. On this occasion, the party will be held from February 16 to 19.
20 years of the Guggenheim Museum
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the work of Frank O. Gehry, opened on October 18, 1997 and completely changed the city. It boosted tourism in the region and promoted the revitalization of various public spaces. Its most striking feature is its innovative and deconstructivist style forged with titanium plates, limestone and glass curtains.
Last year 1.127.838 visitors were counted, who came to Bilbao to see the collections belonging to the Guggenheim Foundation and other itinerant ones. This year the exhibition "Paris, end of the century: Signac, Redon, Toulouse-Lautrec and their contemporaries", on the Parisian avant-gardes of the late XNUMXth century, as well as a presentation on abstract expressionism in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts will be exhibited. London and a Bill Viola retrospective, among other events.
Huelva, gastronomic capital 2017
Chosen as gastronomic capital for this year 2017, the variety of products and their excellent quality had great weight in the decision. For the first time, since the creation of the capital, the award was awarded to a coastal city. In this way, homage was paid to the cuisine of the sea and to products as extraordinary as the seafood from Huelva and the range.
A walk through the central market of El Carmen will allow us to enjoy the offer of the Andalusian city. White prawns, coquinas, Atlantic fish, delicious Iberian hams and other sausages or Aracena mushrooms are some of the delicacies that can be bought here. Not forgetting the excellent local wines made with great care. There are many options to enjoy in this space on the occasion of the gastronomic capital of Huelva. Are you going to miss it?