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  Tarragona, Spain
Spain's largest theme park, Port Aventura, is in Salou, just south of Tarragona (see Hotels in Salou).
The petrochemical industry is an important industry for this province, the port is used for its transportation.
Infact it is the second most used port in the whole of Spain.
www.euroresidentes.com /euroresiuk/guides-spain/guide-to-tarragona.htm   (1308 words)

  
 - Pep Bou
To Pep Bou it is placed side by side, in first part of the show, mathematician Michele Emmer, craftsman of the conference-show "the soap bubbles between art and science", that happening in edition 2003 of the Festival has collected large.
Catalan theatre magician PEP BOU stepped on a stage as a professional in the second half of the 70 ́s as part of movement of mimes and actors that characterised this period.
Pep Bou was member and founder of several companies as 'Pa de Ral' or 'La Viu Viu Teatre', but in 1982 he decides to go a step further and starts to work with soap bubbles.
homepage.mac.com /keithmjohnson/soapbubblers/page77/page77.html   (5107 words)

  
 Embassy of the United States, Rabat, Morocco
The UNODC report warned that this agricultural monoculture represents an extreme danger to the ecosystem, as the extensive use of fertilizers and forest removal continue to be the methods of choice to make room for cannabis cultivation.
The primary ports of export for Moroccan cannabis are Oued Lalou, Martil and Bou Ahmed on the Mediterranean coast.
According to the UNODC, Spain still accounts for the world’s largest portion of cannabis resin seizures (57 percent of global seizures and 75 percent of European seizures in 2001).
www.usembassy.ma /reports/drugchemicalcontrol.htm   (1593 words)

  
 Girona/Gerona
The other side of this particular mountain held a neat little bay and the small town of Port Bou, a pretty but not particularly appealing place that seemed to exist mostly off the trade from French tourists and shoppers.
The scenery was great for the first stretch out of Port Bou; off to the north you could actually see a Pyrenee or two, though they didn't amount to much this close to the coast.
It was cloudy but it wasn't raining, which was a relief; the rain in Spain could damn well stay on the plain until I was out of there.
www.sff.net /people/sanders/spain.html   (2003 words)

  
 A Rebel In Barcelona by Jack White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
I got that impression as early as Port Bou, where we had to spend six hours waiting for the Barcelona train.
I suspect their present function is nearer the purpose of a religion based by its founder on the love of God and the Neighbour.
In Ireland, as in Spain, it was the priests who started methods of fire and sword against the people, yet they complain bitterly when their own weapons are turned against themselves.
srsm.port5.com /swr/rebelinbarcelona.html   (1095 words)

  
 France And Spain By Train: Like Drinking Café Olé ~ By Maxine Schur
I found the France ’n Spain Railpass particularly ideal for those regions in Spain and France that share the same culture and even language, such as Catalonia.
The France ‘n Spain Railpass can be combined with a car rental car to reach the places not on the rail line.
As the France ‘n Spain Railpass is so flexible, I could just as easily have ventured south to Madrid, east to Provence and the Riviera or north to Paris.
www.escapeartist.com /efam/47/France_Spain_Traintravel.html   (1783 words)

  
 THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY TO SPAIN
The main highway has a big chain across it where France meets Spain, but the Spanish border is so cut that a portion of the sidewalk on the left side of the road is Spanish while the road itself and the other sidewalk is French.
Soon I was in intimate conversation with the cafe owners and hangers on and with the soldiers and officers of the army and the members of the International Control Commission watching all.
Lucky for me, too, that the guards on the Spanish side had not been changed but, pending the outcome of the struggle of which I was to be a part and which cost the lives of over 1400 persons, the guard was willing to let all go through.
www.weisbord.org /Underground.htm   (2646 words)

  
 Menorca,Menorca Tour,Menorca Spain Tour,Tours to Menorca,Tour Menorca Spain,Tour in Menorca,Menorca Travel
The chief tourist area is besides the south coast including the resort of Son Bou with a nude beach.
The Mahon harbour is the island capital, the second large natural deep water port on the earth.
The Menorca island is a European Biological Reserve that is quiet and family oriented to be.
www.tsiholidays.com /spain/menorca.html   (289 words)

  
 Trainspotting Bükkes [border stations - Cerbère - Port Bou]
The whole track layout of Port Bou station is controlled from just one signal-box, of the PRG type (all-relay, cabled geographically), known as "l'Enclavamiento".
As for Port Bou, its trans-shipment facilities were the destination of various trains originating at points including Belgium via Quévy, Cologne via Apach, Sarrebrück via Forbach, Metz-Sablons (ICF), Milano via Vintimille twice weekly and a mixed freight from Miramas.
As for Port Bou, on the other hand, it is the starting point of intermodal trains for Metz, Sarrebrück (in two parts, combined at Perpignan), Mannheim, Quévy, Cologne and Milan.
bueker.net /trainspotting/stations_cerbere.php   (1716 words)

  
 Walter Benjamin's Grave by Michael Taussig, an excerpt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The thought crosses my mind as I read the papers in the train heading north to Port Bou with their front-page news of Israeli soldiers with their armored bulldozers and Apache helicopters invading Palestinian towns and refugee camps in response to suicide bombers.
Truth itself lies on trial, and it is the border that defines and redefines it as I slowly travel north from Barcelona, north to the border at Port Bou in the local train that stops at all stops to let me down where Benjamin was stopped sixty years ago.
He approached a middle-aged woman and in his gesticulations seemed to be asking her when the train to the border would come and whether the approaching train was the one he needed.
www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/790045.html   (4168 words)

  
 Festive Travel - The Mediterranean Specialists Since 1994
On the way to Spain stop at Elvas, noted for a 16th-century aqueduct which still supplies this market town with water.
Cross the border near the historic citadel of Badajoz and drive through Extremadura, the arid homeland of the conquistadors Cortés and Pizarro.
The capital of Spain since 1561, Madrid today is a strikingly modern city, the showcase of a country resolutely turned towards the future.
www.festivetravel.com /spain/tour-spainportmorroc17.htm   (1148 words)

  
 Hatred at One End, Rejection at the Other
On his walk to Spain, Benjamin carried a heavy briefcase containing, he told his companions, a new manuscript more important to him than his life, and it was part of what made the walk so arduous for him that he had to stop one minute out of 10 to catch his breath.
There is a steep ascent to the plateau between Banyuls and the slopes east of Cerberes, during which the route points due south then rises to loop around the ridgeline that is also the international border.
Though the nature of his death is unresolved — it may have been from a cerebral hemorrhage, an accidental overdose of his heart medicine or suicide — it is certain that Benjamin died in Port Bou, in a hotel that no longer exists, on Sept. 26, 1940, at the age of 48.
www.commondreams.org /views04/0802-09.htm   (1625 words)

  
 wais:Spain: Railroad gauge March 2005
All other trains stop at Irun or at Port Bou, where the passenger must get off the French train and climb aboard a Spanish one.
The recent moves to extend the French TGV to Barcelona have required the construction of an entirely new railway line, leaving the older broader gauge intact.
George Sassoon forwards this comment from a railroad expert: I think Spain and the USSR operate 5' 3" gauge, not the 7' broad gauge of M. Brunel.
wais.stanford.edu /ztopics/week030105/spain_050301_railroadgauge.htm   (801 words)

  
 Hotels in Menorca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Modern white resort hotel overlooking a large palm-flanked pool situated in the port of Ciutadella, 450 metres from the beach.
Set in lush gardens, this modern hotel is located in the picturesque resort of Cala Blanca, 300 meters from the white sandy beach.
Modern bungalow complex situated at Son Bou beach overlooking the sea and Es Prat protected wetlands, six km from Alaior.
www.expedia.co.uk /daily/hotels/Spain/Menorca.asp   (648 words)

  
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A satellite photo of the port of Pusan, Korea shows a capsized cruise ship laying on its side after it was hit by the 2003 Typhoon Maemi.
www.tagzania.com /tag/port   (242 words)

  
 SPAIN & ANDORRA - photos of sightseeing in Spain on Worldisround
Sightseeing in Spain - travel photos - We went 2 times around Spain, in the 1992 and 1993; both time we visited the South of the...
We went 2 times around Spain, in the 1992 and 1993; both time we visited the South of the France and the North West of Spain.
in the 1992 during the last days of the holiday we were in Port...
www.worldisround.com /articles/30619/index.html   (180 words)

  
 EURO SEJOURS ET TOURISME - DE LA CÔTE SABLONNEUSE A LA CÔTE VERMEILLE
Starting at the north-east of the area, in Port Barcarès, following the coast down to the south-east, you reach Cerbère, the last resort before Port Bou and Spain.
In an exceptional woody setting, the Chateau de VALMY dominates the sea and Argelès port.
It is a stage for birds of prey who act their parts under the control of the Eagles d'Argelès-sur-Mer, as well as other cultural activities.
www.euro-sejoursettourisme.tm.fr /E/cote.htm   (307 words)

  
 portbou.html
Today's painless border crossing would, however, have seemed an impossible dream in 1940, in a Europe ravaged by war and fascism, a Spain only beginning to recover from its own civil war, and a captive Catalonia licking its wounds, its language and culture pulverised under the iron heel of Francoism.
On the afternoon of 25 September 1940, a group of three clandestine travellers arrived in Portbou, exhausted after a harrowing trek across the Pyrenees from Banyuls-sur-Mer in France (15 km distant as the crow flies).
The author of 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' might seem an unlikely candidate for the most-famous resident of a small coastal resort, far removed from the great intellectual centres, where he spent only the very last day of his life on earth.
www.wbenjamin.org /portbou.html   (2029 words)

  
 Spain Car Rental with Auto Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
There is so much to do and to see while visiting Barcelona and Madrid the traveler may be tempted never to leave the cities, but the Spanish countryside is just as enticing.
From the beaches of Alicante to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Spain is a wonderful county to explore.
Questions about driving in Spain are addressed on Auto Europe's driving information page.
www.autoeurope.ca /rental-guides/ES.cfm   (314 words)

  
 Late to Fame, Lost to Fortune | The Jewish Exponent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Benjamin's paternal grandmother was descended from the van Gelderns, which meant that Benjamin was distantly related to the poet Heinrich Heine.
That meant that the only way into Spain was through illegal channels; by then, he was willing to take the chance.
They were detained by the police and told that, since they were stateless, and despite their official papers, they would be escorted back to the French border the next day.
www.jewishexponent.com /article/11000   (1940 words)

  
 Prologue: A History of Aragon and Catalonia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
[xiii] The visitor from France who enters Spain on the eastern side at Port-Bou and travels by train to Barcelona, will be able to observe some, at any rate, of the characteristic features of Catalonia, at one time the most important part of the medieval kingdom of Aragon.
Barcelona is the best equipped port in Spain and about a third of the total of Spanish imports enter the peninsula at this point.
Barcelona is thus a collecting and distributing point for the numerous smaller industrial centres scattered throughout the province; it is the most cosmopolitan city in Spain and, [xv] in the eyes of its inhabitants, the most beautiful.
libro.uca.edu /chaytor/prologue.htm   (1024 words)

  
 Walter Benjamin Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Benjamin's decision to remain in Paris in 1939 rather than join friends in Palestine proved to be a fateful one when German troops invaded France.
Benjamin and a group of refugees managed to escape from an increasingly hostile Paris and travel to Spain en route to the United States.
When the group was not allowed to board a boat and a local official threatened him with extradition to France, Benjamin took an overdose of morphine and refused medical attention.
www.bookrags.com /biography/walter-benjamin   (1154 words)

  
 Spain Tourist Information and Hotels in Spain
Coastal Spain is perhaps the best known of region of Spain as far as the British holiday-maker is concerned.
Extending from the French border in the North to the southernmost tip of Spain, the Costas represent for many what Spain is all about - sun, sea, and sand.
Beyond Gibraltar on the Atlantic coast is the great delta of the Rio Guadalquivir, home to a myriad birds, and the ancient port of Cadiz.
www.drive-alive.co.uk /spaincoast.html   (895 words)

  
 Portbou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Portbou is a town in the Alt Empordà comarca, in Girona province, Catalonia, Spain.
It is located on the border with France, in the Costa Brava region, and frequently serves as a dropping off point for SNCF trains coming from France.
 This article about a location in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Portbou   (134 words)

  
 Berlin: The City as Body The City as Metaphor
Benjamin eventually settled in Paris after leaving Germany in 1933 upon the Nazis' rise to power.
He continued to write essays and reviews for literary journals, but upon the fall of France to the Germans in 1940 he fled southward with the hope of escaping to the United States via Spain.
Informed by the chief of police at the town of Port-Bou on the Franco-Spanish border that he would be turned over to the Gestapo, Benjamin committed suicide.
www.stanford.edu /dept/german/berlin_class/people/benjamin.html   (277 words)

  
 Walter Benjamin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Benjamin certainly was aware that he was risking his life both if he went south or if he stayed behind in Paris; the latter meant certain death and probably torture at the hands of the Gestapo.
It does not seem that he was using any forged identity papers when attempting to cross into Spain, and this would make it easier for the border police to identify him.
In all probability Benjamin did not know people who were in the more advanced escape business, and his portliness and distinctive face made it hard for him to disguise himself anyway.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Benjamin   (1847 words)

  
 The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog: March 2005 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
But that initial mission was thwarted when the Spanish authorities ordered the group to return to France because they lacked proper exit visas, a requirement that had not been enforced in the past and was ignored in the future.
They planned to escape through Spain but separated because the Spanish had begun arresting men who they feared might make their way to Britain to fight Hitler.
Fittko was soon joined on the French side of the border by her husband, who had not been able to find sea passage.
realcostofprisons.org /blog/archives/2005/03/index.html   (19602 words)

  
 eurail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Eurail Selectpass valid in 3, 4 or 5 countries (you need to select Spain)
The state-run railroad company Red Nacional de los Ferrocarilles Españoles (RENFE) covers a large number of lines connecting all the regions and the major cities.
RENFE also supplies night train services between several cities in Spain.
eurail.lwb-online.info /index.php?view=cms_436   (466 words)

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