![]() The hotel recently added new suites, restaurants, a spa, and a beach club and guests can opt for wine tastings on the property. In lodging and wine, the destination here is Château l’Hospitalet Wine Resort, Beach and Spa, owned by Gerard Bertrand, among the pioneers of biodynamic winemaking in France with 16 biodynamic estates (Bertrand is one of the biggest exporters of French wine in the U.S.). But there's tremendous beauty, close access to the beach, and plenty to see and eat. "Narbonne is located in Southwest France, but when most travelers head to southern France they either go to the area around Toulouse or straight to the more well-known towns east of the former Roman seaport-Montpellier, Arles, or further still, Marseille and the broader Provence-Côte d'Azur region. And a secret: Zamora boasts of one of the best orchards of Spain, and its tomatoes are from another world sample good wines from the famous Toro wineries, where LVMH is the owner of Numanthia." - David Moralejo, Head of Content at Condé Nast Traveler Spain ![]() (You can read about it here.) But no matter when you visit, be sure to taste the city’s traditional food, like the not well known ‘arroz a la zamorana,’ rice cooked with meat, ham and finished in the oven. If Zamora is famous for something it is for its Holy Week, one of the most beautiful, dramatic and shocking of Spain. Furthermore, Zamora is one of the most important epicenters of modernist art buildings in Spain, perhaps the third after Barcelona and Melilla. Reasons to visit are not lacking: We are talking about the city with the most Romanesque churches in all of Europe (24 exactly) all of them built around the 12th and 13th centuries. "Zamora and its 60,000 inhabitants are about to see a boost in tourism thanks to the new AVE from Madrid (high-speed train), which takes just an hour. To experience the best of Tirana nightlife, make a beeline for the Blloku neighborhood." - Elise Morton, travel writer and former Eastern Europe Commissioning Editor for Culture Trip The city center is walkable and full of places to simply ‘be’ (take a seat on the sofa-esque benches of Skanderbeg Square, iced coffee in hand), with nature never feeling too far away-courtesy not least of the vast Grand Park and majestic Mount Dajti, which flanks the city.įor stellar views and a sense of the landscape surrounding Tirana, head up Mount Dajti with the cable car, before taking a culinary journey through Albania at restaurant Mullixhiu, which feels like a country retreat on the edge of the Grand Park. The city combines fascinating architectural reminders of the country’s communist chapter with a distinctly youthful energy, perhaps best encapsulated by the metamorphosis of the monumental 1988 Tirana Pyramid into a youth-focused cultural hub. "A visit to Tirana offers at once a glimpse into Albania’s unsettling (yet captivating) recent history and an invigorating taste of a vibrant, rapidly evolving capital.
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