Blanes resort in Spain

(Free Press Release) A popular tourist center of Spain the city of Blanes is located approximately sixty kilometers from Barcelona, on the southern tip of the Costa Brava. This is a typical Spanish town - quiet, peaceful, ancient, having many historic places of interest. First settlements in these areas have appeared as early as in the second century BC, Blanes itself has emerged in the early second millennium BC in Spain.
Blanes in Spain is prefered to be visited by fans of antiquities and by families with children. The resort is under a wooded mountain, on top of which there are survived ruins of an ancient castle, built in the thirteenth century. An old tower survived among these ruins, the chapel of St. Juan, built as early as in the twelfth century nuzzled next to it. A serpentine road twists to the castle from the town, along which a number of luxury villas stretches.
A five kilometers from the town in Spain also on the mountain, in a fantastically beautiful and quiet place there is a church of St. Barbara, to get to which you can only on foot. It is a masterpiece of Romanesque architecture, inspiring admiration, awe and reverence. The building of the basilica is small, very isolated, and everyone who comes here, willy-nilly, feels his involvement in the invincible triumphant eternity.
In the center of Blanes in Spain, not far from its main street there is one more temple - the church of Santa Maria. This majestic building built in the Catalan Gothic style, was erected in the twelfth century. However, it is well preserved and today attracts many tourists by its sublime beauty.
The history settled down in this town firmly. Even the lively modern port of Blanes in Spain, where many fishing boats and schooners jostle, is marked by its seal. Not far from the port, at Cape St. Anna, ruins of the monastery of the Capuchin monks survived.
Of course, besides historical sites, there are other attractions in Blanes in Spain. There are two sumptuous botanical gardens in the surburbs of the town: “Pinia de Rosa” and “Maar and Murtra". "Maar and Murtra" it's bamboo thickets and a whole country of cacti, where it is easy to get lost. In “Pinia de Rosa” there are more than fifteen hundred species of plants brought here from all over the globe. There is a zoo in five minutes driving from Blanes, where there are a lot of marine animals and an aqua park.
Blanes in Spain regularly hosts concerts, festivals, competitions and other fests and gathers a large number of participants and spectators.
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