Estos destinos y las correspondientes rutas propuestas por nuestros editores en sus minimaps son perfectos para disfrutar en cualquier momento del año, pero en verano son sencillamente ideales. Hay muchos editados e ilustrados por Yours …
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Jardín de Cactus en Lanzarote en fotos
Es imposible pensar en Lanzarote sin pensar en César Manrique. Artista, escultor, arquitecto y sobre todo un enamorado de esta isla en la que su legado artístico se funde armoniosamente con la naturaleza: “Arte en …
Superminimaps aparece en el libro Get Lost: Explorando el mundo a través de mapas ilustrados
¡Sí! Superminimaps ha aparecido en Get Lost: Explore the world through map illustrations un precioso libro editado por Victionary que pretende resaltar el encanto y la atemporalidad de los mapas físicos como herramienta útil para …
Get Lost: Explore the world through map illustrations
Superminimaps have been featured in Get Lost: Explore the world through map illustrations a beautiful book edited by Victionary that aims to highlight the allure and atemporality of physical maps as a useful tool to …
Kew Gardens celebra a los árboles con ‘Rooted’
Si tenéis planeado un viaje a Brighton antes de que se acabe este verano, no dejéis de incluir en vuestro itinerario una vista a Rooted en la sede de Kew Gardens en Wakehurst que hasta …
Pink Wonderland: 7 lugares muy rosa
Dreaming of finding your own Barbieland? Probably it will be very difficult to find a place with an all-female Supreme, but… if it’s pink you’re craving for, you’ll love these places.
Filomena, en fotos
Filomena, la borrasca que generó la nevada más grande en por lo menos 50 años en Madrid, en dos días de fotografías: sábado y domingo. Como dice la canción: yesterday was dramatic, today is okay. …
EL RETIRO GETTING DRESSED FOR AUTUMN
Whenever is possible I try to go and have a walk in El Retiro. It’s without a doubt one of the most magnificent parks in Madrid, and surely the most popular and whenever you’re …
From Caños de Meca, with love
– Caños de Meca is a small seaside village embedded in the Parque Natural del Acantilado on the Costa de la Luz of Spain. It is part of the province of Cádiz, definitely one of my …
FROM BENIDORM, WITH LOVE
. Yes, this week we are featuring Benidorm. I know these beaches filled with expats and retired seniors are not usually a love at first sight story, but they are so peculiar (weird peculiar) that …
FROM TARIFA, WITH LOVE
Tarifa is a small, wonderful town in Cádiz, right on the southernmost coast of mainland Spain (there’s the Islas Canarias right next to Africa). Tarifa is very famous for being a world’s popular wind surf …
FROM CALP, WITH LOVE
The Spanish Mediterranean coast can be both absolutely breathtaking and super weird in their own peculiar way. Generally all at once. Calp, in Alicante, even thought is a lot less popular than other towns around, …
MISTAKEN MAPS
Before the world had been fully explored, cartographers often made educated but incorrect guesses like portraying California as an island, the existence of a continent as big as Africa called “Java La Grande”, or the …
TO LIVE LONG AND PROSPER… READ!
So, it turns out that reading books is tied to a longer life, according to a new report. That’s what we read this week in The New York Times. Here’s an excerpt of the article: …
MADRID BY SUSIE LOMOVITZ
When I was looking for photographs for the Madrid Bookstores With A Charm minimap I couldn’t help to think of my good friend Susana who besides being an amazing yoga teacher, designer, baby …
TYPICAL SPANISH
[su_vimeo url=”https://vimeo.com/157168824″ width=”980″][/su_vimeo] The Typical Spanish, a guide for guiris in trouble video from Fragmento Universo demonstrates that learning basic but very necessary Spanish expressions can be really easy and also beautiful (and sometimes very weird!). They are …
JustMAD @ COAM
This last week Madrid was all about art because while the biggest Spanish art fair, ARCO was in town there were a lot of alternative proposals. JustMAD was one of them and this year it was …
Let’s make 2016 lovely!
Hello 2016! In this first post of the year we share the illustration of one of our illustrators and art directors of Minimaps: Victoria Fernández We also wanted to share a couple of interesting …
DREAMING OF MINIMAPPING: NORMANDIE
Happy Birthday France! Happy Bastille Day! I’m constantly publishing photos of Paris, so I thought of diversifying a bit the panorama, that’s why I’m sharing with you the newest Dreaming of Minimapping destination: Normandie. I …
10 PEOPLE-CENTRED SMART CITY INITIATIVES via NESTA
Here’s an interesting article by Nesta that showcases 10 people-centered initiatives at the time it highlights that for smart cities to reach their full potential, they need to focus on the citizens living in …
DREAMING OF MINIMAPPING: LAKE COMO
I visited Lake Como a couple of years ago when Minimaps didn’t exist as it is right now, it was just a blurry idea, that’s why I would love to have the opportunity of …
THE FUTURE OF BREAKFAST
Photo via Pearlfisher. Here’s an interesting post written by Shaun Jones, Futures Business Director of Pearlfisher London about the future of breakfast that we, as restless brunch minimappers have found interesting (: “The breakfast …
DREAMING OF MINIMAPPING: JUAN-LES-PINS
Nina Burleigh’s article in The New York Times really got me thinking of my plans for the summer and craving for spending some time under the sun in Juan-les-Pins, a little town in the …
AN AIRBNB FOR THE KINKY? KINKBNB, OF COURSE
Photos via KinkBNB. What happens when you mix AirBNB’s business model with 50 Shades of Grey: KinkBNB. As they explain in their website “many sites offer to connect you to regular rooms, but …
READY OR NOT!
Hello world, welcome to Minimaps! I’ve been working on this crowd-sourced traveling experiences project for a long time now. I’m addicted to side-projects, even though I cannot say that I have a main one. …