sábado, 10 de marzo de 2007

Catalonia Vs Spain - Volume 2. The landscapes

If you go to the center of Spain, whitch can of landscapes do you spect? maybe green landscapes?, Do you think that is possible to have green landscapes and a lot of sun at the same time? I tell you, I know very well, it's not possible.

Did you know that a lot of "western" movies with a lot of dry and arid landscapes were filmed in Spain?

Did you know that in inside Spain there are not less than two deserts (Tabernes, Monegros) and a lot of places that are going dryer and dryer (for example: Almeria, Murcia, Alicante, Castilla regions)?

Let me show you some pictures of diferent places of Spain, just to give a glimpse of it:

1.- Monegros desert in Aragon.
2.- Murcia region.
3.- Tabernes desert in Alemria.













































If you think in Catalonia, there's still on the Iberian Peninsula, but his geography makes it very diferent in clima. First of all, is in the northern part of the peninsula, the Mediterranean sea is pretty close and a lot of mountains is everywere, specially the Pirenees. No other place in the peninsula have thouse things. If you translate this into typical landscapes, you can find something like :










1 comentario:

cortijo dijo...

Que pasa! que vives del turismo, y quieres vaciar el sur de España y llenar Cataluña de Turistas que no se informan,que necesitan que tú les abras los ojos,como si los turistas fueran tontos.