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Gijón with the Family - Kid’s Play
Numerous parks with children’s playgrounds, greenways for walking or cycling, recreational areas, picnic restaurants, entertaining museums that also organise workshops to make the city’s artistic heritage more accessible to its younger visitors... are just some of the resources that families with children can enjoy in Gijón. All this seasoned with a wide-ranging and varied offer in cultural and leisure activities all year round. -
Small secrets of a big brew
Did you know that the ritual of drinking cider, a democratic brew in form, content and price, is of Astur-Celtic origin? This is a small secret that you should keep in mind before initiating the cider ritual. -
Gijón Turismo launches Gijón en el bolsillo (Gijon in your pocket), an app on touristic information, for tablets and smartphones
It includes over one hundred points of interest and indicates how to reach each of them. It also includes audio guides for urban routes. After a test period, started in January 2013, the app has reached almost 700 downloads. In English before the summer. -
Tickets are available for the ferry linking Poole (UK) and Rosslare (Ireland) with Gijón
Tickets are now available for the recently announced and long awaited ferry linking Poole (UK) and Rosslare (Ireland) with Gijón via the Atlantic Arc Sea Motorway. -
PAWLIKOWSKI “reconquers Gijón" with Ida
The decision of the jury of the 51st edition of Gijon International Film Festival that will officially close the curtain tonight during the closing ceremony, when the awards will be hended out -
Jiri Menzel, Full throttle
The first memory is from 1966, when Hollywood decides to give the Oscar to the Best Film in a Foreign Language to a humble Czech film with a fantastic title: Closely watched Trains (Ostre sledované vlaki). The film, disguised as a small story, dealt with the huge topic of resistance against the German invasion. The adaptation of a novel by Bohumil Hrabal was Jirí Menzel’s first film as a director, and he managed to infuse each of the frames with the mysterious Central European gene that makes tales coming from the former Republic unique.
