Ferrari Land Tarragona

Ferrari Land launches five children’s attractions and “energize” PortAventura World

Ferrari Land Tarragona

The leisure complex PortAventura World expects to exceed five million visitors this year thanks to the “leverage of dynamism” that has led to the theme park Ferrari Land, which on Tuesday has premiered five attractions for children and from March 23 to 30 April has grown by 60% year-on-year in visits and 27% in hotel occupancy.

This has been explained by the general director of PortAventura World, Fernando Aldecoa, in an informative breakfast held in the park, in which he has commented the perspectives for this season and next year, and has assured that the independence process has not caused any impact on the number of visitors.

“Ferrari Land has had an evolution and impact throughout the spring, is a lever of dynamism that makes PortAventura position as a unique destination in Europe,” said Aldecoa, and has attributed the good results of this start of the season to the bet on Ferrari Land, which has had an investment of five million euros for new attractions.

With the opening of this Tuesday, the park dedicated to the Italian team already has a third of its offer aimed at children, and strengthens its commitment to the family audience, which accounts for 80% of customers.

The new attractions are Junior Red Force, a children’s version of the Red Force attraction; Kids Tower, a nine meter free fall tower; Champions Race, which simulates the driving of a Ferrari, and Crazy Pistons, an attraction that simulates the movement of the pistons of an engine.

A POSITIVE YEAR

Aldecoa has made a good assessment of the beginning of this 2018 and has ensured that PortAventura has lived the best Easter Week located in the month of March in the history of the park.

A trend that adds to the good results experienced since October last year, when the leisure complex recorded the best Halloween and Christmas campaigns, and that has resulted in a 9% increase in Spanish visitors.

The general director has assured that these figures show that the independence process has not had any impact: “PortAventura World is an international destination that is not affected by the tensions between Catalonia and Spain.”

Aldecoa has announced that this year will commemorate the 20th anniversary of ‘Woody’, the mascot of the park, and the characters of Tadeo Jones will arrive, while the shows of ‘Cirque du Soleil’ will not be scheduled, although they maintain the agreement.

NOVELTIES IN 2019

The leisure complex plans to invest 25 million in the construction of a theme hotel in 2019 aimed at a family audience that will be located in the area ‘Far West’ and will be added to the five hotels that has the spring.

It is also planned to build a new attraction in the theme park of Sésamo Aventura that will consist of the first ‘dark ride’ of the leisure complex and will cost about 15 million euros.

Both facilities will have a total investment of 40 million and are aimed at PortAventura World “continue to grow to enrich the product of the theme parks with new attractions,” and thus become the best tourism spring in southern Europe.

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Scale model of the “Titanic” in Tarragona

The replica is nine meters and is a faithful reproduction in three dimensions with sound and light

Scale model of the “Titanic” in Tarragona

The model of the world’s largest Titanic and is moored in the port of Tarragona. With a length of nine meters, is a thorough and reliable replication in three dimensions of the vessel taking into account the smallest details, from the mythical staircase and piano at the luxurious dining rooms and hallways, passing through the engine room, which is in March.

The model incorporates sound and light. To illuminate, it has been necessary up to seven kilometers of optical fiber. With invaluable in the market, the model, which has meant two years of work in Granada, is the centerpiece of an exhibition organized by the Titanic Foundation.

The exhibition, “Titanic, the reconstruction,” brings together a quarantine of memorabilia about the legendary liner. unique and original pieces are exposed, such as ring and a blouse who was the smallest passenger on the Titanic, an informative bronze plaque and a spectacular Brush 1909. The exhibition opens Tuesday in Tarragona, where it will remain until next 22 May and then begin a tour virtually worldwide.

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Oldest olive tree of…….

The oldest olive tree in Spain has 1701 years and is in Ulldecona (Tarragona)

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A study by the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) has determined that the olive tree known as ‘the Farga de Arion’ in Ulldecona (Tarragona), has an estimated age of 1701 years and would have planted therefore, in 314, in the reign of Emperor Constantine I (306-337 AD.).

The study was led by Professor of Mensuration of the School of Forestry, Forestry and Environment of the UPM, Antonio Prieto.

The study results show that olive Ulldecona monumental is the oldest dated tree Peninsula and is also among the oldest in the world.

Prieto also worked on dating the ‘Farga del Pou Mas’, which is in La Jana (Castellón), and in this case the estimated age is 1,182 years old and was planted in 833, during the Emirate of Abderramán II (822-852 AD.).

Dating works have focused on studying the perimeter of tree trunks 50 centimeters of soil and laser telemetry, has lifted the section has allowed for specific calculations to determine the age of the tree.

A method that has been used as an alternative to other methods such as carbon 14 or measuring the growth rings, not been possible to implement this project.

The work was sponsored by the Bank Santander Foundation at the request of the Commonwealth of the Taula del Sénia.

Senia Territory, made up of 27 people Valencia, Catalonia and Aragon, retains the highest concentration of monumental olive trees in the world: 4,798 over 3.50 meters in trunk circumference at 1.30 meters above the ground, spread across 22 villages.

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Hidden Picasso painting

They discover a Picasso painting hidden under another

Hidden Picasso painting

A study of the materials used by Picasso in six portraits of his early works has emerged hidden and others that can not be seen because they are covered with white lead, also have been found to intuit that the influence of his father, also a painter It was greater than previously thought.

These findings were announced today in presenting the results of the study by the University of Barcelona and the Picasso Museum, a mobile laboratory, called MOLAB, for in situ analysis of artworks within the framework of the European project Research Infrastructures advanced culture on equity (CHARISMA).

The head of the Department of Preventive Conservation of Museum Reyes Jimenez, Head of the Department of Preventive Conservation Museum, explained that the studio wanted to deepen the work Self Portrait with wig from two works made in Coruña, where 14 years He learned to paint from the hand of his father, J. Ruiz Blasco, a teacher at the School of Fine Arts in that city, and others, all painted between 1895 and 1900. The pictures are analyzed “Old” Man with Beret, Portrait of Josep Cardona i Furro, Man-style El Greco, portrait Portrait with Carles Casagemas and wig. Old, painted in Coruña, is a simple and seemingly simple work, has some spots that could indicate some other composition, while Man with Beret, 1895, is more complicated and robust and it is seen that Picasso has a connection huge with the work of his father.

Under the cap they have appeared two doves, a constant in his parent and teacher who may be the first to be aware of this issue, and according to Jimenez, one could say that a penchant for painting doves of Picasso was an inheritance from his father. Picasso’s father was a copyist painter was simple binary compositions, which always painted doves, and after this finding, announced this expert, a line is open to study his works, although “I had a short collection that is held by collections private “.

Hidden Picasso painting

Man painting in the style of El Greco has a male figure below that connects back to the period of formation of Picasso in Barcelona, ​​when he painted nudes in schools and study. In addition, experts have noted that Picasso pieces of fabric cut and reused, so has now explained Jimenez will try to find more pieces of work and where they have been set out.

Table of Josep Cardona i Furro, 1899, Picasso worked three times, as they have appeared other paintings with scenes of patients, as in the play “Next to the disease,” and the image of a roof, a cityscape Picasso worked hard in Barcelona. This landscape has even made a chromatic recreation and has seen that is linked to its cheerful and colorful paint, similar to the work Terrazas and church of Santa Marta, and the work visible, very vertical strokes and a lot of paint, nothing to see what’s underneath.

Portrait of Carles Casagemas of 1899-1900, which had already been restored 50 years ago, is a painting with many conservation problems because of a layer of white lead which caused cracks and fall of what is painted over, what it is now known that hides something that can not be seen, “because lead is an interface”. What if it has been determined that under the paint that has fallen, and is above the target, there is a pictorial composition of blue, green and beige, which could correspond to a landscape, for the like chromaticism with two other landscapes Horta de Sant Joan (Tarragona) painted in 1898.

Under Self wig, experts have found a clear greenish ocher layer of a man with hat large Bohemian style, similar to the portrait of Pompeu Gener.

The researcher at the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the UB Joseph F. Garcia has stated that knowing the structure of materials and composition of Picasso’s palette is important “because it gives information about the artist, the time and the cultural and geographical context of his work”. He explained that although the fieldwork lasted five days, in which evidence of fluorescence X-rays, infrared spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy, among others, then he has worked for over a year and a half were to make a full report on the pigments and composition.

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Rally Catalunya can decide the runner

With the World decided, the Finn Jari-Matti Latvala has everything going for it

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 The Rally RACC Catalunya-Costa Daurada will tomorrow kick off their 51st World Championship with the strong, after the victory of Frenchman Sebastien Ogier (Volkswagen), but the fight still alive to decide the runner. Jari-Matti Latvala (Volkswagen) Finnish has everything going for it to take second place overall in the penultimate round of the championship.

The Nordic pilot, who was the fastest in the race held a few weeks ago in France, add 160 points, 34 more than the Norwegian Andreas Mikkelsen (Volkswagen), so it could achieve in Catalunya his second runner-up in the top category of rally world.

Lattvala, however, not have it easy to repeat the victory in the French round. With the Constructors also decided, following the landslide hierarchy shown by the cars of Volskswagen Motorsport Ogier try climbing on top of the podium for the third time in Spain. In fact, rivals the three-time world champion will look to end the French supremacy, since from the rally held on the roads of the Costa Daurada just won Ogier, twice, and Loeb, eight.

For its part, the Spanish Dani Sordo (Hyundai), tenth overall with 62 points, will have another shot at redemption in the home rally after a somewhat irregular season in which his best result was a third place in Germany.

More exciting category WRC2 is expected in the Qatari Nasser Al-Attiyah, nine points ahead of the Finn Esapekka Lappi, it is one of the favorites to take the test and give an almost definitive step to repeat the title achieved in 2014.

The 51 edition of the rally, the twenty-fifth as FIA world championship will start tomorrow with the classic car exhibition in Barcelona, ​​just before they do the fifteen racers WRC category in the special urban test that will pass through the Montjuïc mountain.

With a tour which has enhanced the difficulty, more sections were added and reduced assists, the Rally RACC Catalunya-Costa Daurada with the participation of 84 drivers, representing a record registered among all categories although only fifteen units correspond to WRC. In this edition they will travel 1280.72 kilometers, of which 331.24 will be speed, spread over twenty special tests, seven of them totally new. A new born with the aim to further enhance the strength, speed, leaving a second term, and thereby increase competition between the teams.

The Friday October 23th will be the longest of the race with the running of the special section of Terra Alta, 35.68 kilometers, which will have asphalt roads and land surface changes up to five hours.

In Saturday’s stage near Salou eight sections and ending with the traditional special which will run along the waterfront of the city of Tarragona they will be made.

The last day will have three special which will be given two runs to score 76.40 kilometers, including Duesaigües section, with the section of Riudecanyes, which will give extra points to the three fastest drivers.

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