Talking about modernity, Madrid- the capital city of Spain encompasses the concept that widely astound anyone in the world of trend. Madrid apartments, hotels, and numerous types of lodging widespreading the city able to feed your starve in seeking extraordinary experience.

There are plenty of confirming Madrid apartments best fit to your wants and likes; favorable to make you feel unique with the structures of its character in Spanish ways. To incredibly enthrall, find one that is situated at the central area of the city. Locate an apartment where its location is perfect to offer you accessibility to visit Madrid’s renowned landmarks such as the Cibeles, El Prado, Plaza de Espana, Plaza Mayor, El Rastro, and more to go beyond.

Meanwhile if you feel like to go shopping the Chueca, Malasana, and the Gran Via are just blocks away to reach from the apartment, as well to some of Madrid’s contemporary bars, nightclubs, and restaurants. Furthermore make sure that among of the hundreds of Madrid apartments, you can guarantee that you choose the one that offers you to glean on the best public access within the city giving its guests the preeminent comfort counting in the public subway stops nearby Sol, Gran Via, Sevilla, and Callao.

Moreover, to give you a soothing stay there are many apartments that have been persistently maintained with a very one-of -its-kind modern style for the concept you look for. Ensure that inside the apartment it is fully furnished, from the living room, bedrooms, to the kitchen area consideration for you to give attention in picking, the one that is available for you to be satisfied if you really want not to be sorry.

Madrid Travel Guide bound to suggest you significant’s what and whereabouts in the territory of Madrid, but for you to see a real-incredible architecture concept of Madrid halt to the city’s Vital Building.

Vital Building located in Madrid, Spain, and was a project designed by Architect Mozas Aguirre in 2005, the architecture building design is truly an eye-popping. Built on a constructed area ( 16,578 sqm ) and on site areas ( 11,042 sqm), the Vital Building is the local savings bank headquarters.

The structural concept of the Vital Building is based on pairs of the supports of exterior metal, covered in stainless steel composite panels. Since one of the arms has been comprehended as a 26 meter cantilever, the pairs have no any structural function; thus the concept change. The building calibration is surrounded by small woods, Natura 2000 networking programme park.

Whether these tourists have distinction in taste as regards to places and various concerns about vacation, in Madrid no one will ever fail to notice its uniqueness nor neglect to glimpse intersting sites for even the last hour, for Madrid holds its own concepts what makes her extraordinary amidst hundreds of cities in Spain.

When you want a rewarding experience, better catch the season when Madrid comes lively, for longer hours in parks for glittering nature. In between the 4th of March (spring season) and 19th of June, for the very first time, from the Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue of Paris there are a total of 200 images are can be seen in an exhibition, entitled: A Floating World- that shows the lesser-known part of this French artist. Titled A Floating World, the exhibition is being held between 4 March and 19 June. This exhibition makes the city’s covered time very interesting and exciting.

Taking place in one of Madrid museums- Reina Sofia Museum is where an intriguing exhibition on geography and the theory of Art History on the concept of Atlas, conceptualized by Aby Warburg, cultural theorist; aims to shed light by Warburg references on Western knowledge of history and images. The spectator will be taken through the history and images from over a century to these days, as part of the presentation in exhibition.

Additionally, the Worker-Photography Movement, 1926-1939 is as well visible to the public to be present in this museum started last April 6 until 22nd of August. This ‘missing link’, a difficult chapter in history, demonstrates how photography has developed over the last century. By this exhibition the practices that created photography as how people learn from it today is documented.

Else, one of the most popular Madrid museums – Thyssen Museum, demonstrates a reduced version that has been presented in Los Angeles and Paris which is the large scale of exhibition over the course of 2010. The exhibition is the artwork displays of Jean–Léon Gérôme including his oil-paintings and sculptures that will uncover the characteristics of Gérôme’s famous art.

Otherwise if you want to know about Alexander the Great. Encounter with the East, the Centro de Exposiciones Canal de Isabel II is hosting Alexander the Great’s life and times he did encounter with the east until 3rd of May. The collections comprise over 300 pieces from 40 rare collections that all revolves around the journey and conquests of this well-known conqueror since he depart from Macedonia until the time of his death.

All of these exhibitions are all should not be missed out. After all, when you have free time to explore the city ensure to consider Madrid car rental - the smartest way to get to know Madrid farther.

And when it comes to accommodations, Madrid hostels have something to offer you. From the city center to far-off areas, hostels are quite famous for some reasons; the concepts used regarding on structures has its liberal mood which are, generally, on the leading edge of the hottest trends and its buoyant atmosphere; on some occasion, they apply the idea abide by the historical influence accepted by Spanish.

If you choose to travel in Madrid, there are loads of worthwhile places to visit, wherein, you unbelievably get bored stiff seeing the preserved beauty of the architecture of its time and contain until today’s building concepts and criterion.

Furthermore, travel in Madrid’s old areas, from there you may likely solving a puzzle upon walking on its tangled street layout, but is applies to the larger part of the city too. Actually, the amazing twisting layout of Madrid’s streets has grown naturally without any form of clear city planning. In the major part of the City, streets followed the path of least conflict. The street might be like puzzling but the special character on each section presents a revelation and surprise around each bend.

Head off to Madrid City, it can be the home for anyone. You will amazingly be out of limit to tour around watching while get fascinate with the lovely views in the park, splendid museums, and most especially the restaurants and accommodation that are wholly designed in such a fashion, as well as they provide satisfaction to the needs in approximate be it the luxury or the budget travelers.

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Following a year in development, the Spanish company Stampii launched in Madrid a universal platform which proposes to break new ground in the entertainment and leisure market: digital collecting.

Innovative technology developed by the company will allow users to acquire, download and collect stampii; a 21st-century version of the traditional lifelong trading card.

•    Each stampii that users acquire contains exclusive audiovisual digital content, which includes front-page video, videos, photos, statistics and other information relevant to each unit within the collection.
•    The collections increase their value and potential interest thanks to free, daily content updates, which incorporate new photos and videos relevant to each stampii.
•    Stampii can be swapped with friends face-to-face using their mobile phone (similar to the traditional trading card stacks or they can browse and make swaps long-distance with other collectors anywhere else in the world, through online social networks.
•    Stampii can be bought or given as gifts anytime or anyplace through a system of micro-payments, eliminating the need to go to a newspaper stand, via SMS from their mobile phone, from a prepaid account or by using a credit card.
•    Stampii can also be acquired through promotions featuring exclusive promotional codes in newspaper inserts, on-pack consumer products (e.g. pack lids) that can be enjoyed on the spot by activating the codes on a mobile phone or computer.

The company plans to launch two types of collections, swap collectables (stacks containing stampii chosen at random) and subscriber edition collectables (requiring subscription or through periodic deliveries) with a wide range of topics on offer, targeted primarily at teenagers, young adults and adults and which address a wide variety of categories such as sport, cinema, motorsport, entertainment; series, music etc without forgetting other niche but interesting themes such as cooking recipes, fitness regimes, hunting and fishing, fashion etc.

Alex Baixas, Chief Executive, states that “it is difficult to explain all the possibilities that stampii offers you until you’ve tried it yourself, only then do you understand the full dimension of the concept and the effort that’s been put in to bring out the full essence and simplicity of traditional collecting within a digital platform using all the relevant mechanisms and trends related to the digital era. We are convinced that this project will be a resounding success. At present we are cutting deals that will be made public in the near future which will allow us to launch more than eight international collections in more than 10 countries over 2010”

Alfonso Marian, General Creative Director comments that “The aim is to create a new leisure alternative in a digital format, the evidence of which we see today with the launch of digital collectables but it doesn’t stop there, in fact we aim to add other types of editorial content moving forward ”.

Stampii can be acquired through micro-payments using SMS, prepaid accounts, promotional codes or credit cards. And the cost is as modicum as the traditional trading cards themselves. For just 0.9€ or 1.2€ you can buy a digital stack containing 4,5 or 6 randomly chosen stampii from the exclusive limited series produced and distributed by each collection and which can be downloaded at any time, anywhere on your computer or mobile phone with just a mouse click.

The Stampii platform has been developed to enjoy digital collectables through maximum leverage of digital devices: on computers (PC and MAC) where it is more comfortable to enjoy the full range of audiovisual and infotainment content which is associated to each stampii, and on mobile phones which provide more mobility and spontaneity with a more summarized selection of the information associated to each (Apple [iphone], Symbian [Nokia] and Windows Mobile, although Android and Java will be incorporated soon). This allows users to decide which devices they want to activate and which collections they want to synchronize in each case.  The platform offers international services and requires an optimum level of availability which has led to the decision to host the platform in Interxion, the leading supplier of hosting services in independent data centers in Europe, thus guaranteeing quality service and direct connection to the major communication hubs when needed.

User exclusive ownership is an area that has received extra special attention. Each stampii is unique and belongs to an exclusive limited series. To highlight the fact that the user is the exclusive owner of the content they have just acquired, stampii has developed client-centric applications that are downloaded and installed. When stampii are acquired and synchronized they can also be downloaded over the devices activated by the user. Once the stampii are downloaded the local application decodes the content so that they can be enjoyed at any time, with or without Internet connection. Furthermore a database certifies all stampii that are acquired and swapped between users so that the legitimate ownership of each of the stampii belonging to each of the limited series of each collection is identified and recorded at all times.

José Laso, Managing Director concludes that “ the truth is that it would have been much easier to develop a web-based system of digital collectables, but from the start we realized that true essence of collecting lies in the hands of the collector, whilst giving them adding value and differentiation. The concept and the idea at their core have a tremendous potential for development founded upon the vast range of tastes and preferences that our potential users have, but we are also convinced that the Stampii platform will be called upon to play a relevant role as a communication tool that will contribute to building and positioning brands. As an example, think about the possibilities opened up to brands through their association to any given collection and the values that that collection conveys to consumers; in the field of consumer intelligence, customer relationships and loyalty building and product-specific promotions… the list goes on.  And all of this has the added advantage of facilitating homogeneous, integrated campaigns both locally and internationally and the capacity to measure ROI both quantitatively (participation/redemptions) and qualitatively through impact, awareness and brand attributes”

About Stampii

Stampii is an independent digital content company, created and founded in Spain in May 2009 by Alex Baixas, Alfonso Marian and Eduardo Sanchez. Following their first year of development, the company was launched on the 6th April 2010 with the vision that an ideal context exists within which digital collecting can be born and which it can develop, and the mission to become the category benchmark for this new form of collecting in the digital world. José Laso is Stampii’s Managing Director and Javier Mora, Aitor Satrústegui and Alberto Gonzalez are responsible for the departments handling technological development, sales and marketing and online marketing. Currently Stampii has a staff of 14 professionals. Stampii’s head offices are located in Madrid with its development team based in Bulgaria. For more information visit http://www.stampii.com/

Madrid has preserved the legacy of its culture. As the city fast forward to the 21st century it brought with it the very core of the Spanish culture. What for should we look for in a Spanish country? French inspired building? An Italian influenced dishes? Or perhaps a Hollywood style clothing? Thus, it fails the goal why we travel and enter Madrid.

Madrid travel is full with 21st century buildings and innovations but the Spanish culture in its chore of development. Madrid travel means a visit to a classy airport terminal planned by Richard Rogers and Antonio Lamela; tapas bar that seduces patron with minimalist style décor; the latest innovation of lights to lit Plaza de Chueca; or perhaps the technology adopted to home the fastest train travel- whatever may be added to the city- Madrid travel definitely and I strongly emphasize complete a Spanish Itinerary. Without Madrid is without the Spanish air we are looking forward for.

The memory of a man in black tuxedo dancing flamenco would I think will always be embedded in my memory. It truly signifies Madrid. You may dress Madrid with the latest innovations of man still it will remain to be- the most Spanish City.

As much as we enjoy Madrid travel when the sun is up, Madrid is best enjoyed during the night. To enjoy the city like a local go straight to El Viajero to see of different races wearing different dresses unite in one dance flamenco or do a flash dance.

Maybe a different tune like rock ‘n’ roll kind of music completes your Madrid travel then hop in to La Via Lactea and party all night long.