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Ruta Bancos Gigantes or Huge Bench Route in Andalucia

A new rage is slowly spreading across Andalucia with its beginnings in the province of Malaga and that is huge benches are being installed in beauty spots across the region. The Huge Bench Route or  Ruta Bancos Gigantes #rutabancosgigantes can be found on Instagram  where they are more active with updates on the new installations of these enormous benches and they have a   Facebook  page too. Map of the Ruta Bancos Gigantes The initiative started by Forest Green an agrobroker company that supplies and works with treated wood to large construction and environmental companies in Spain. The huge bench route is steadily growing, with constant new installations spreading across Andalucia. The enormous handmade wooden benches are 4 metre long and 2.3 metre high, with the seat being 1.3 metres above ground and needing steps to get onto them, appearing in natural beauty spots hopes to encourage people out into and  enjoy the views and of course take photos to be ...

Flamenco Paintings

I´ve loved Flamenco as long as I can remember, I had a large collection of Spanish dolls that my grandma brought me back from her holidays. So the music of a Spanish guitar always conjures up the vigour of the many forms of Flamenco.

These paintings by Margaret Merry excite me and wonderfully depict the emotion of the dancers.














Margaret lives in and paints in Spain, her work can be found on her Flamenco Paintings blog both original paintings and prints are for sale.

My son, at trained luthier has a hand-made Spanish Flamenca blanca guitar sale not unlike the ones in the paintings.

I really can´t decide which of these paintings is my favourite each one has wonderful detail. The bright red and blue ones are vivid and eye-catching but the other two make me look at their pose and expression more. Which is your favourite?

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