Anyone know where I can buy posters of Spain? Specifically of Galicia and Cantabria. I was just in Santander this weekend to visit a friend and we didn�t have time to get any and I wanted to get some posters of the ocean for my friends back home. I did a search on the internet and all the stores had for Spain were either paintings or Andalucia.

Anyone know a website or a poster store in Madrid that would have pictures of Espa�a verde?

melinda

hey Melinda, you do not need to buy them at all. you can get posters for free at the tourist offices here.

they have some nice ones of the "espa�a verde" that you will love and with this being an "a�o xacobeo", they have gone all out with galicia posters.

your best bet are the main tourist offices. these are ones that cover all of spain and not just madrid for example.

try...

Patronato Municipal de Turismo
Calle Mayor 69, Madrid
Tel.: 91 588 29 00

Direcci�n General de Turismo
Calle Principe de Vergara 24, Madrid
Tel.: 91 580 22 00

TurEspa�a
Calle Jos� L�zaro Galdiano 6, Madrid
Central Tel.: 91 343 35 00
Tel. normal: 901 300 600

Also, the tourist office at...

Calle Conde Duque de Medinaceli, 2
Tel.: 91 429 49 51

... has stuff for all of spain.

i recommend you call the above resources and tell them you are a spanish teacher visiting from the u.s.a. and that you want to get all the posters you can. this is what i did when i was backpacking all over spain years ago. i was a teacher and really did need the posters to decorate my classroom. every city i went to i would stop into the tourist office and ask for posters, they were always really nice and geneous with them.

too bad you did not go into the tourist office in santander this past weekend and ask there, i am surte they would have given you a ton of cool posters

saludos,
jer...

When we were in Spain in 1999, we visited the tourist offices in the towns we were in and we were able to obtain posters. Some were free but the majority we had to pay for them, although the price was very minimal, about 100 pesetas each.

Irene

maybe they started charging after jer the terror tore up the country and cleaned em out of posters

saludos,
jer...

Still not a bad price. The conversion back then was about $.75 and they measured about 16x20 inches, and the paper was not very thin. We mailed, from Spain, three poster rolls back to the states. Eack roll held approximately 6 or 7 posters.

Irene

The tourist offices in the U.S. (Florida) used to give these free years ago. I recently called Miami and New York to get some for a library display and they did not have any to give or sell. I guess on my next trip I will have to stock up! :cheers:

We weren�t near the tourist office in Santander until 1 AM on Sat night when they were closed. We passed the one in Potes and it crossed my mind, but I wanted a beach pic and I figured they would only have Picos de Europa. we were going to stop in San Vicente de la Barquera and comillas but we were too tired. So I�ll try here in Madrid.

Melinda

Well I just got back from the Tourist office of Cantabria (they apparently have one JUST for cantabria in Madrid - very random). They gave me a bunch of posters but none were what I was really looking for. I�ll go check the Galician one tomorrow. From cantabria I wanted an arial shot of the Palacio de la magdelena and an arial shot of one of the costal villages - Comillas, San Vicente de la Barquera or the parque nacional de Oyambre. The closest they had were the Cuevas de altamira or an indescript beach. So... anyone know any poster stores in Madrid? Because if they couldn�t supply a poster of the village with the only Gaudi building in Cantabria or one of the most important costal stops on the camino de Santiago, I�m doubting they�re going to have posters of Nigran or Baixona at the Galician tourist office.

Oh and all the posters they gave me (6 or 7 but they would have given me more if I had asked) were free. They said the only ones they charge for are the ones with Bustamante on them and they don�t have any right now.

Melinda

Melindaaaaaaaaaaaa, jejejeje I am from Santander, did you like it??????????? jejejeje how was my dearest town like??????

try this
http://www.cantabriajoven.com/

And this

http://www.gobcantabria.es/portal/page?_pageid=33,1&_dad=interportal&_schema=INTERPORTAL

And this

http://www.turismo.cantabria.org/

And this

http://www.cantabria.com/

An more...

http://cantabriainter.net/cantabria/index.htm

And all together in

http://www.laredcantabra.com/fines/portals3.html

Hope you find what you want.......


(Me he pasado tres pueblos.........) jejejeje


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I loooooove it. The people are SO INCREDIBLY NICE there. Seriously I have NEVER been treated so well in my life and it�s been that way both times I�ve been there. When guys call you guapa on the street apparently people there say thank you and return the compliment. Every time someone passed us entering a restaurant they would tell us "aproveche" before sitting down. My friend said a few weeks ago she got caught in traffic after the Busta concert and a group of guys called her guapa then jumped out of their car and dressed as tuneros sang to her until traffic started to move.

But mostly I love it because one of my best friends lives in Camargo. She�s been bugging me to come for months now. I never had a weekend off to go and didn�t want to ask for one, knowing my friend was coming from NY and I was going to Almeria the following weekend. The family said they were going to Belmonte so the very next day I was on the bus.

It�s just so peaceful and quiet there. But at the same time not boring. I just love the people. Everyone is so nice.

I�ll check out the sites... some of them I�ve seen before. I�m looking for POSTERS, though, not photos. Becky gave me a CD full of pictures of Santander. I�ve never seen anyone as proud of where they�re from as she is. I left with a CD of photos of her city, a little anjana figurine, three necklaces with celtic cantabrian signs, a CD of traditional music and a "pais kantabro" flag. Insane but I love her

Melinda

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Shouldn't we be proud????????

Thanks Melinda, thanks.......... :l:

I forgot you could try CASA de CANTABRIA en MADRID, even can buy food (cocido, corbatas, sobaos, anchoas ......), and ORUJO!!!!!!! jejeje

It's in:

C/ P�o Baroja n� 10
28009 MADRID
Tlf 915044363

:ks:

I was there yesterday - that�s where the tourism office is. THEY HAVE FOOD THERE?!?! I can buy quesada in Madrid?! WHAT FLOOR?! Hold me back!! hehehe I keep telling my friends that I almost wish the family I�m working for would fire me so I can go live with Becky for a month She says there are VERY few native english teachers there and I would most definitely teach English to stay there for a month. But not much longer... I can�t stand teaching. Especially English.

We went to every pastry shop in Potes, 3 in San Vicente de la Barquera and 2 in Santander trying to get one specific brand of quesada and sobao. Finally got it at the hospital pastry shop. I still have a little bit left... Not as yummy as the first day but still VERY good Do you know if they have the brand "El Macho"? It�s the best of all the kinds I�ve tried and my friend�s family says so, too.

Food store info!! Must stock up before I go!!

Melinda

OK now we are talking food I can find a translation for sobao (small, flat, square sponge cake - wow sounds exciting!! ) but please someone tell me what is quesada? And, of course, to keep this on topic......do they do posters of it!!!

Yes they've got sobaos from "casa olmo" , and quesada, and corbatas from Unquera..... but, I've been today and they are "de inventario" so I guess better try next week, or ring them before going.......

The shop is in the first floor, left hand side....

Well, next fest I might cook "almejas a la marinera" or similar........

Well, you can do other things apart from teaching, my "vecina de toda la vida" has a house in Guriezo and a few days ago told me that "They've got an Irish there running a "kiosko", well he is the only foreigner in Guriezo......... jajajaja he is an "instituci�n" and cops go there to practice their english.....


And......... have a look here:

http://www.cantabriajoven.com/gastronomia/index.html

�Que aproveche!!!!!!!!



BTW, in Cantabria when we meet someone we know with someone we don't konw we use to say, Hello Melinda y compa�ia.... they do not in Madrid, they only say hello Melinda.....

and still!!! no-one tells me what is quesada!!!!!!!!