Mumbai

 

RENDEZ-VOUS
Spring - summer - AMURA

Spring - summer

There are no boundaries for colors in this season. Senses and imagination in the summertime trends bet on a travelling and a bit of an exploring mood. White is ideal for warm days, its possibilities are, practically, infinite; accessories sparkle on their own, they are the indissoluble element to grant the outfit its own identity.

Por AMURA

 

TIME MACHINE
Vacheron Constantin Métiers d’Art Mécaniques Ajourées - Cecilia Guzmán

Vacheron Constantin Métiers d’Art Mécaniques Ajourées

Inspired in the gothic vaults found in the nineteen century buildings, the Métiers d’Art Mécaniques Ajourées is an example of distinction and innovation. Distanced from conventionalisms, it shows wound and complex forms in its structure, against the traditional linear skeletons that this type of watches present.

Por Cecilia Guzmán

 

INTERNATIONAL COMPASS
Gazes Over MUMBAI - Ana María Morales

Gazes Over MUMBAI

Usually, when one refers to places alien to the western culture, as in the case of Mumbai, the mind evokes sites far away from modernity, where the people’s culture is expressed through the most elementary customs, and even one may think of prototypes detached from realty.

Por Ana María Morales

 

SPECIAL REPORT
King Fish - AMURA

King Fish

King’s Fish Seafood Grill & Lounge Bar distinguishes itself by its fresh dishes; so, at every table, the catch of the day is served: sea food prepared at a high level of culinary specialization, ready to delight every diner like a king.

Por AMURA

 

OUTBOARD
Oberoi - Alejandra Millanes

Oberoi

An awesome view of the ocean and of the “Queen’s Necklace” –a golden light half-moon image embellishing the coastline after sunset— is offered the unsurpassable location of the Oberoi, one of the top hotels in the unique Bombay Marina Drive.

Por Alejandra Millanes

 

Taj Mahal Palace - Alejandra Millanes

Taj Mahal Palace

With a story woven within Mumbai, the Taj Mahal Palace is known as the first reference spot of the port. Built in 1903, for over a century has lodged international celebrities who appreciate it as an invaluable treasure of memories and a warm resting or business space.

Por Alejandra Millanes

 

Trident, Bandra Kurla - Florencia Gutiérrez

Trident, Bandra Kurla

Welcome to a modern lodging world, fine food and kind hospitability in the heart of the new Mumbai financial district, in north Bombay: the Bandra Kurla Complex. Trident, Bandra Kurla is located 20 minutes from the airport and it’s the perfect place to do business or to explore the exciting night life in a city that never sleeps.

Por Florencia Gutiérrez

 

Sahara Star - Flor Arenas

Sahara Star

Sahara Star, the Sahara India Pariwar flagship hotel, is one of the most fetching destinations in India. This posh 5 star hotel, strategically located in front of the domestic Mumbai airport, outstandingly mixes Indian mysticism and culture.

Por Flor Arenas

 

FLEET
Moon Sand Feadship 44-metre - AMURA

Moon Sand Feadship 44-metre

Designed by Tanno Weeda and the De Voogt naval architecture team, together with the consulting services from outsourcing designers as important as Ed Dubois, Tim Heywood and Andrew Winch; Moon Sand is the style and workability zenith that Feadship offers in a motoryacht.

Por AMURA

 

Gibbs Quadski XL - AMURA

Gibbs Quadski XL

Some years ago, the Gibbs Quadski was regarded as one of the best amphibian vehicles of its type. Now, by the introduction of Quadski XL its concept has been enhanced and refreshed, offering its passangers the greatest experience ever on sea and land, at a breathtaking speed.

Por AMURA

TOYS COLLECTION
High-speed racing cars futuristic - AMURA

High-speed racing cars futuristic

During the Geneva International Engine Show 2015, in addition to innovative models, vehicles combining attention, paid up to aesthetic millimeter accuracy, with featured top range comfort plus state-of-the-art technology, attracted special interest.

Por AMURA

 

TASTERS
TÉ - Sofía Reyna

Lord Arthur Reilly was visiting England after having stayed in India over a year. One summer afternoon, during his audience with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and while both were relishing a cup of Darjeeling –one of the most exquisite varieties of infusion.

Por Sofía Reyna

 

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Bollywood - Andrés Torres

Bollywood

With over 1,600 film premiers a year, about 9 million people employed, popular soundtracks and superstars –risen to the level of Hindu divinities—Bollywood shines as the first motion picture producer in all of the planet, even above the US and China, where there are made around 600 to 800 films per year in each.

Por Andrés Torres

 

MEET THE MUSIC
Year of Johann Sebastian Bach - Ricardo Rondón

Year of Johann Sebastian Bach

This year we celebrate one of the greatest composers of all mankind. Curiously Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1759)  was born the same  year as Georg Friedrich Handel and Domenico Scarlatti. This fact had him in the best company, at least for a fleeting moment.

Por Ricardo Rondón

 

CULTURE AND HERITAGE
Sensorial Art - Jesús Peraza Menéndez

Sensorial Art

Art, has rendered a great service to beliefs; it makes tangible images and tridimensional forms and phenomenal architectures comforting human existence.

Por Jesús Peraza Menéndez

 

CONSERVANCY
Gautala Wildlife Sanctuary - Lizethe Dagdug

Gautala Wildlife Sanctuary

Inherent to its thinking, even rooted in its mystic and religious precepts, Hindu culture shows a deep respect for all life forms.

Por Lizethe Dagdug

 

SPECIES
Species with heavenly  characteristics - William Alberto Salazar

Species with heavenly characteristics

In India, several animals are regarded as sacred by the Hindu, although such divine status does not necessarily guarantee them a better life on Earth. As a matter of proof, there are 3,000 tigers living in nature or the elephant, icon of whatever is savage, majestic and colorful in India, which are captured and hired for events.

Por William Alberto Salazar

 

CHARACTERS
Mahatma Gandhi - Yolanda Bravo Saldaña

Mahatma Gandhi

If there exists a personage in history who has left a deep mark for his antiwar thinking, that one is Mohandas Karamchad Gandhi (1869-1948). Spiritual leader, human rights defender, peace activist, he was an architect of India’s independence (1947) and, no doubt, one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary universal history.

Por Yolanda Bravo Saldaña

 

CONQUERORS
Inspiration Brahmanism-Hinduism - Jesús Peraza Menéndez

Inspiration Brahmanism-Hinduism

Brahmanic India is the result of an initial and founding sacrifice. The genesis in this Theogony is a fact of an original being, Purusha, male entity identified with movement, it is indestructible, eternal, and in him resides the immanence of desire, which is circumstantial.

Por Jesús Peraza Menéndez

 

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TIPS
Tips & Tops Mumbai - AMURA

Tips & Tops Mumbai

Tips & Tops Mumbai

Por AMURA

 

Madagascar

 

RENDEZ-VOUS
Spring evolution - AMURA

Spring evolution

This 2015, spring trends are recreated in details with flower compositions and less conventional asymmetrical lines printed, which give clothing another dimension. In the designs, it is toyed with garments’ cutting geometry, where the beauty of the feminine shoulders is left exposed.

Por AMURA

 

JEWELRY
Immense shining - Berger Joyeros

Immense shining

The effect produced by a diamond is hypnotic, its own purity and brightness make it an irresistible piece, and an element of elevated significances that range from exquisite luxury to the most splendid concretion of love and commitment.

Por Berger Joyeros

 

SPECIAL REPORT
Gran Premio de México 2015 - Amura / Corporate Travel Services

Gran Premio de México 2015

Corporate Travel Services, the only agency authorized by ClE to sell packs of this outstanding event through its Corporate VIP Solutions division, transforms this contest into a unique experience. 

Por Amura / Corporate Travel Services

 

Telcel Mexican Open 2015 adventure - AMURA

Telcel Mexican Open 2015 adventure

This year 2015, in Acapulco, Guerrero, the most prestigious tennis tournament in Latin America, the Mexican Open Telcel presented by HSBC lived it up with a successful ATP Hot Tour edition.

Por AMURA

 

INTERNATIONAL COMPASS
Madagascar - Ana María Morales

Madagascar

The tale tells that, in the past, Earth was inhabited by only one being, a very intelligent artisan called Ratovona. This greatly inventive man spent his time making things up with pieces of wood and clay.

Por Ana María Morales

 

OUTBOARD
Anjajavy Lodge  - Alejandra Millanes

Anjajavy Lodge

Anjajavy is a private accommodation lodge in a 450 hectare reserve, one of the lushest cottages at North East of Madagascar.

Por Alejandra Millanes

 

Mandrare River Camp - Daniela Esquer

Mandrare River Camp

In no other place you could wake up to the singing and dancing of a tribe with a rich ancestral culture, the Antandroy, in an exclusive camp on the bank of river Mandrare, soul of the region.

Por Daniela Esquer

 

Princesse Bora Lodge  - Amelia Watson

Princesse Bora Lodge

In the little isle of Saint Marie, right within the wild nature and tropical environment, the Princesse Bora Lodge’s charm outcrops as the ideal shelter to fuse with the peace and beauty of East Madagascar.

Por Amelia Watson

 

FLEET
Red dragon - Alejandra Millanes

Red dragon

The demand and insight of an experienced regattist carried out the concretion of a high performance and exceptionally designed sailboat, when he entrusted it to the successful combine Dubois Naval Architects and Alloy Yachts; in order to create a yacht capable to sail around the world.

Por Alejandra Millanes

 

Navetta 37 - AMURA

Navetta 37

Navetta 37, the semi-displacement line new flagship, the scion of the Custom Line magnificent yacht generations, is the largest ever built in their history. She is a “Go Anywhere” yacht that boasts a state of the art design and technology.

Por AMURA

CONSERVANCY
Banc du Géysir - Suri Atri*

Banc du Géysir

The Banc du Géysir located in the northwest Mozambique channel, between Madagascar and Africa, is distinguished as one of the researchers and naturalists’ favorite diving sites; feared by the seamen for its dangerousness

Por Suri Atri*

 

SPECIES
Lemur - Rebeca Castillo

Lemur

Despite many a person relates them with other animal species; lemurs belong to the primate order, thus being related with chimpanzees, apes and, of course, men. There are about 50 different species endemic of Madagascar. Amongst the best known species is the ring-tailed lemur, the indri, the gray mouse lemur, the aye-aye and the black lemur.

Por Rebeca Castillo

 

Panther chameleon - Alicia Gutiérrez

Panther chameleon

The Furcifer pardalis or panther chameleon is native of Madagascar, and can be found along the north and east coasts, and in the nearby isles like Mauricio and Reunion. There are different varieties, each one with its own colors and features, named after the place it inhabits.

Por Alicia Gutiérrez

 

CULTURE AND HERITAGE
What no returns of human creation and its habitat - Jesús Peraza Menéndez

What no returns of human creation and its habitat

The following, is a reflection, on some events that impinge on and move us. Who make the decision of dismantling the tangible and intangible signs of the cultural and aesthetic construction?

Por Jesús Peraza Menéndez

 

CONQUERORS
Africa Millennial Globalism - Jesús Peraza

Africa Millennial Globalism

The 40% of the world population inhabits Africa; a region with the lowest average age whose youth dimension, transforms it into the inception of another actuality; by carrying within its heritage the origin of human evolution.

Por Jesús Peraza

 

CHARACTERS
Africa,  the ancestral woman - Jesús Peraza Menéndez

Africa, the ancestral woman

Africa, remote history, everything points toward the fact that in this continent it started our long march to inhabit the planet and, likely, the universe. In this journey we go, so as the Africans enter the benefit of modernity with its transcendental history, that inhabits our guts.

Por Jesús Peraza Menéndez

 

MEET THE MUSIC
Jean Sibelius Voice of the northern epics - Ricardo Rondón

Jean Sibelius Voice of the northern epics

Once a wise and sensitive critic said:”The music of Sibelius Here is music that not only from a Finnish heart but also the soul of Finland”. Here is an art of intrinsic worth  and substance, , instead of virtuoso showmanship, brilliant technical exhibitionism and revolutionary experimentation. 

Por Ricardo Rondón

 

TOYS COLLECTION
Innovation, tradition and luxury - AMURA

Innovation, tradition and luxury

One of the foremost attractions for auto collectors or for those who enjoy the car-racing world is the variety of styles, forms and, above all, power.

Por AMURA

 

GOLF JOURNEY
Bridgestone America’s  Golf Cup - Lisandro Borges

Bridgestone America’s Golf Cup

It has not been an easy task to display the talent and golfing level of the American Continent, a cradle of so many stars in the list of the best golf players of history; in a tournament that balances the transcendence of this sportive discipline, with the most prestigious and great tradition of other world latitudes.

Por Lisandro Borges

 

Rome

 

RENDEZ-VOUS
Winter - AMURA

Winter

In these season that swings between a traditional sobriety and the fun of the festivities we find the elegance of the suits, the mid height cut boots, the coats ranging from mariner style to the long Chesterfield, as well as the leather dresses with simple traces or in A type cut.

Por AMURA

 

JEWELRY
 

TIME MACHINE
Academy Georges  Favre-Jacot  Zenith - Cecilia Guzmán

Academy Georges Favre-Jacot Zenith

With the occasion of its 150th anniversary, the watchmaker Zenith prepared a collector’s piece which compiles the savoir-faire of Swiss manufacturing and which expressing elegance and praise of haute horlogerie.

Por Cecilia Guzmán

 

Big Bang Ferrari Hublot - Beatriz Triana

Big Bang Ferrari Hublot

These pieces are the result of aesthetics and power that characterize the Ferrari automotive, with the precision that have made Hublot in one of the most prestigious watchmaking firms.

Por Beatriz Triana

 

INTERNATIONAL COMPASS
Roma - Melissa Díaz

Roma

The Eternal City is known in this way not only due to its ancient history nor for being one of the first big metropolis of the world, it is nicknamed in this way because today it remains as beautiful as it was centuries ago. Rome is the cradle of art and architecture, the home of great designers, the muse to a many artists and the headquarters of the Catholic faith.

Por Melissa Díaz

 

OUTBOARD
Residenza Napoleone III - Serena Raven

Residenza Napoleone III

This is one of the most luxurious places to stay in Rome. It is located in the Ruspoli palace built in the XVI century on the legendary Via Condotti. It is called like this after the Emperor Napoleon III who lived there in 1830.

Por Serena Raven

 

J.K. Place Roma - Gwendoline Sánchez

J.K. Place Roma

It is located in the heart of Rome in a magnificent palace, restored and modernized. From there la Piazza Espagna and la Fontana de Trevi can be reached by foot and many of the monuments of Rome and the Vatican are also very close by.

Por Gwendoline Sánchez

 

Villa Spalletti Trivelli - Audrey Luna

Villa Spalletti Trivelli

Founded on the residence of the Spalletti Trivelli family, the hotel was renovated between the years 2004 and 2006 by the architect Piero Alessandrini. It is counts with an unsurpassed location in the full Historical Center of Rome in front of the Quirinal Palace.

Por Audrey Luna

 

GOLFER´S JOURNEY
El Lorena Ochoa Invitacional - Lizethe Dagdug

El Lorena Ochoa Invitacional

The golf seeks the excellence under a frame of tradition. Therefore, it is only natural that Rolex, an icon of perfection and precision, would be participating in this discipline, since it shares its virtues and commitment whose traditional base evolves thanks to a perpetual search of progress that elevates the spirit. 

Por Lizethe Dagdug

 

FLEET
BENETTI Classic Supreme 132’ “ORYX” - Edmiston

BENETTI Classic Supreme 132’ “ORYX”

The latest yacht from the Benetti Class range, Classic Supreme 132’ ‘ORYX’ is a semi-production yacht, built with the winning formula of Benetti Customs at its core.

Por Edmiston

 

 

CONSERVANCY
Lobo Italiano - Alicia Gutiérrez

Lobo Italiano

Present on legends and tales that have been handed down for generations, the wolf takes part even in the very foundation of Rome. Ascanius, son of Aeneas (the Trojan hero) established close to the Tiber river the city of Alba Longa.

Por Alicia Gutiérrez

 

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Rome in the cinema and the cinema in Rome - Raúl Boxer

Rome in the cinema and the cinema in Rome

In any geographical point, the movies usually are the first window through which one gets to know the world. Who didn’t spend countless evenings between gunshots, explosions and chases, going through the streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles or New York?, Who was not amazed with the temples, mountains or streets of mystical Asian cities?

Por Raúl Boxer

 

TOYS COLLECTION
Bólidos Perfección a la Italiana - Ferrari México, Erick Zamora, Fedor Reyna

Bólidos Perfección a la Italiana

Brands like Ferrari and Maserati, belonging to the Fiat group; Pagani and Bugatti; besides being included among the luxury racing teams with the most value in the world, are a clear example of power, luxury and speed.

Por Ferrari México, Erick Zamora, Fedor Reyna

 

GOURMET
Auténtico Bacalao Noruego - LA EUROPEA

Auténtico Bacalao Noruego

There are more than 60 varieties from a single codfish family, but those valued the most are: Gadus Morhua and Molva Molva (these species being available at La Europea), they hail from the deep and cold waters off the Nordic seashores in Norway, and they are usually caught by means of fishhooks, a technique that ensures their quality, as this keeps the meat white and pure by avoiding the fish getting contaminated with the toxins of its own blood, as opposed to what happens with friction on the fishnets.

Por LA EUROPEA

 

La Pergola - Rafael Ramírez

La Pergola

It is the only restaurant in Rome awarded with three Michelin Stars, showing the excellence offered on each dish, and for which the most select products of Italy are employed.

Por Rafael Ramírez

 

Il Pagliaccio - Rafael Ramírez

Il Pagliaccio

The offered menu is a fusion of different flavors and aromas derived from the creativity and travels of Anthony Genovese, its chef.

Por Rafael Ramírez

 

Oliver Glowig - Amura

Oliver Glowig

This restaurant is located in the heart of Rome, inside the hotel Aldrovandi Villa Borghese. Its chef from Germany, Oliver Glowig, is one of the best performers of the Italian cuisine; on each dish he offers a balance between the German precision and the intensity of the flavors of the Mediterranean.

Por Amura

 

Aroma - Amura

Aroma

With a privileged view of the Colosseum, this restaurant under the charge of the chef Giuseppe Di lorio delights tastes with a selection of the best ingredients, but always keeping the traditional touch of the Italian cuisine. Before the dinner, you can try a cocktail in the bar’s terrace, which offers a panoramic of the Colle Oppio, the gardens of the Emperor Nero.

Por Amura

 

Diamantes de la cocina - Miguel Ángel Montiel

Diamantes de la cocina

The history of truffles is understood from references of luminaries from the culinary world and selected philosophers.

They are the D’Alba white and the black of winter, the truffles that have greater culinary influence on world markets. Harvesting, marketing and possibilities are a world retaining some of the mystery and intrigue of the past with its record of respective rivalry and provincialism.

Por Miguel Ángel Montiel

 

CULTURAL HERITAGE
 

CONQUERORS
Capilla Sixtina - Virgilio Palacio

Capilla Sixtina

The nine genesis scenes A work that overwhelms its visitors

To contextualize the work of controversial artist Michelangelo, which is recognized as the purest manifestation of divine power and its representatives on Earth; worth remembering that the Vatican, which protects this universal heritage, is the smallest country in the world. In just an area of 44 hectares, hosts some of the most important works of history and art.

Por Virgilio Palacio

 

DESIGN
Massimiliano Fuksas - Güido Sica

Massimiliano Fuksas

Massimiliano Fuksas is one of the most successful contemporary Italian architects in the world. Fuksas along with his wife and associate Doriana Mandrelli, direct their architect firm from their Rome, Paris and Shenzhen offices.

Por Güido Sica

 

MEET THE MUSIC
Verdi, A Noble Life - Ricardo Rondón

Verdi, A Noble Life

Giuseppe Verdi was born on october 10, 1813 at La Roncole, Busseto, in the Old Duchy of Parma. His father Carlo managed an inn. His childhood was uneventful. It seemed that nothing important was going to occur in his life, but one day he met Antonio Barezzi, ,who bécame his patrón and who loved music.

Por Ricardo Rondón

 

TIPS
Tips & Tops Roma - Amura

Tips & Tops Roma

 Italia es un país de la Unión Europea y su moneda oficial es el euro. El cambio de divisa es aconsejable hacerlo en México para ahorrar en las comisiones que cobran en cualquier casa de cambio.

Por Amura

 

Anchorage

 

RENDEZ-VOUS
Style in the snow - AMURA

Style in the snow

A près-ski collections have evolved by expanding the gamut of options to please every taste; widening the wear of such winter season choice outfits. Bright colors which characteristically spot the ski tracks, have the function of providing visibility while going down the slopes; but now are suited with more discreet earth or gray tones

Por AMURA

 

TIME MACHINE
Pirata Tourbillon - Cuervo y Sobrinos

Pirata Tourbillon

With a unique and recognizable identity, even at a distance, Pirata Tourbillon rises as an exquisite piece leading towards reminiscences of Havana in its aesthetics and colors, as well as the avant garde of nano-ceramic in its surrounding facade.

Por Cuervo y Sobrinos

 

Salon International de la Haute  Horlogerie 2015 Ginebra celebra 25 años de  Alta Relojería - Felipe López

Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie 2015 Ginebra celebra 25 años de Alta Relojería

The Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) 2015 celebrated its first quarter of a century with 16 firms. 

Por Felipe López

 

SPECIAL REPORT
Omnilaser - Cortesía de Revista Jet News

Omnilaser

To care for your eye health is necessary that you go to a clinic with trained medical and technology to ensure the completion of surgeries to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. Know the most advanced equipment.

Por Cortesía de Revista Jet News

 

INTERNATIONAL COMPASS
Anchorage 100 years being the last frontier - Arturo Bocanegra

Anchorage 100 years being the last frontier

In 1914, two years after Alaska had become a US territory, a project was carefully presented by the Alaska Engineering Commission. From the beginning, it proposed the construction of an Alaska port and railroad. 

Por Arturo Bocanegra

 

NATURAL BEAUTY
Natural wonders - Alicia Gutiérrez y Alejandra Millanes

Natural wonders

In Alaska, the so called “American wild paradise,” it is located the place where the modern world and the natural environment intertwine in enthralling forms: Anchorage. This city has become the most far-reaching one in the state, thanks to its growing infrastructure, its oil corporations and service companies; to its bustling cultural activity –mainly on the music business— and to its boom in tourism. Anchorage gathers almost half the population of Alaska.

Por Alicia Gutiérrez y Alejandra Millanes

 

WINDOWS TO THE WORLD
Santorini, Greece - Carlo Acacia

Santorini, Greece

Santorini, Greece

Por Carlo Acacia

 

Sanya, China - Carlo Acacia

Sanya, China

Sanya, China

Por Carlo Acacia

 

Siem Reap, Cambodia - Carlo Acacia

Siem Reap, Cambodia

Siem Reap, Cambodia

Por Carlo Acacia

 

Budapest, Hungary - Carlo Acacia

Budapest, Hungary

Budapest, Hungary

Por Carlo Acacia

 

OUTBOARD
Alyeska Resort  - Alicia Gutiérrez

Alyeska Resort

Located in a valley surrounded by mountains, glaciers, and spectacular views of the ocean, this hotel gives luxury lodging all the year around for those who seek to be near nature. Its design perfectly amalgamates modern influences and native touches.

Por Alicia Gutiérrez

 

Kachemak Bay Wilderness Lodge   - Rebeca Castillo

Kachemak Bay Wilderness Lodge

A total immersion in the wild life of Alaska, scouting and adventure trips, gourmet food, and a rustic elegance, is what this lodge offers with 10 staff members for about 14 guests who promise personalized attention.

Por Rebeca Castillo

 

Pearson’s Pond & Adventure Spa Luxury Inn  - Sofía Reyna

Pearson’s Pond & Adventure Spa Luxury Inn

Open all year around, the Pearson’s Pond is the ideal place to rest, relax and rejuvenate. In the middle of the woods and near a pond and a waterfall, the stillness of the gardens is perfect to enjoy a cup of tea or a glass of wine.

Por Sofía Reyna

 

Ultima Thule Alaska Lodge - Elvira Chávez

Ultima Thule Alaska Lodge

This is one of the most sumptuous private lodges in Alaska. It is located 100 miles away from the nearest road, in the largest reserve and national park of the United States, the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. In this park the Chugach, Wrangell and San Elias mountain ranges converge along with the greatest group of glaciers in all of America.

Por Elvira Chávez

 

FLEET
The Maltese Falcon by Perini Navi - Rebeca Castillo

The Maltese Falcon by Perini Navi

The same as the coveted gem embedded statuette, The Maltese Falcon is surrounded by luxury and splurge. This mega yacht was built for Tom Perkins, the American magnate, by Perini Navi in Turkey in 2006 and, with her, the door for a new generation of sea craft was open.

Por Rebeca Castillo

 

SUNREEF 74 - Regina López

SUNREEF 74

Sunreef Yachts, while searching for innovation and ease, has decided to create an extraordinary sea masterpiece, the Sunreef 74, a milestone for a new age in the high seas lifestyle. This yacht offers ample personalized rooms and the possibility to be easily handled by just two people, with no complications at all.

Por Regina López

 

CONSERVANCY
Kodiak The giant from Alaska - Alicia Gutiérrez

Kodiak The giant from Alaska

Taquka-ac was the name the Alutiiq, ancient inhabitants of the Kodiak archipelago gave the bear that, after the last glaciation 12,000 years ago, has been isolated from other species of bears. This one is the Kodiak (Ursus arctos middendorffi), the biggest brown bear subspecies and one of the two biggest members of the bear family (being the other the polar bear.)

Por Alicia Gutiérrez

 

CULTURE AND HERITAGE
Inuit - Andrés Torres

Inuit

Known as the last frontier, its dazzling, shed-from-the-heavens Aurora Borealis, granted a mystical character to the majestic Alaskan lands; transforming them into a sacred place for natives who arrived many Moons ago.

Por Andrés Torres

 

TOYS COLLECTION
Zero sports emissions - Lizethe Dagdug / Andrés Torres

Zero sports emissions

The age in which 100% electric cars were regarded as almost impractical machines has been left behind. Currently, companies like Tesla Motors and Fisker Automotive have transformed these cars into a feasible posh transport, while featuring zero emissions.

Por Lizethe Dagdug / Andrés Torres

 

Ski Doo Grand Touring SE 900ACE - Dessiré Valdivia

Ski Doo Grand Touring SE 900ACE

Technological innovation adding up to a sportive and light design, are some of the Ski-Doo Grand Touring SE features, distinguishing it as one of the first-rate vehicles of its kind. This is the ultimate all-luxury two person recreational snowmobile, with an outstanding comfort level for the driver the same as for the passenger.

Por Dessiré Valdivia

 

TASTERS
Eiswein - Cesar Mejía

Eiswein

Even if there have passed several months, since the traditional grape harvesting, in some vineyards in Germany and Canada sheer vines hang, row after row, loaded with ripe Riesling and Vidal blanc grapes; there hang also some from Gewürztraminer, Chardonnay or Cabernet franc, though.

Por Cesar Mejía

 

GOURMET
Noma - Lizethe W. Dagdug

Noma

Several times awarded in the gastronomic world, René Redzepi has managed to deliver one of the most authentic cuisines in the world for the Danish tradition. Noma is his two Michelin ranking stars.

Por Lizethe W. Dagdug

 

Ostería francescana - Lizethe W. Dagdug

Ostería francescana

Massimo Bottura incarnates the autodidact artist who lives with a latent talent, with a concern to explore beyond the known boundaries and with deep sources of exploration which land on living works; expressing themselves to the top, for the revelation to others.

Por Lizethe W. Dagdug

 

Eleven - Lizethe W. Dagdug

Eleven

If the point is to experience the New Yorker’s gastronomy, you cannot avoid visiting this famous and posh three Michelin stars place. The milieu is worth of any luxury Manhattan 

Por Lizethe W. Dagdug

 

Dinner by Heston Blumenthal - Lizethe W. Dagdug

Dinner by Heston Blumenthal

With a whole British conception, inside a gorgeous establishment, as a part of the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park Hotel, in London, the modern elegance of this place is toned down by its relaxed and informal ambience. Its décor comprises details that evoke straight to the most representative of the British roots. 

Por Lizethe W. Dagdug

 

CONQUERORS
A journey around the world   - Gildo González Angulo

A journey around the world

I have decided to title these lines Upstream, using the same as the Isaiah Berlin´s book title, for two basic motives: firstly, because like him, when confronted to the pieces of the sculptor Jesús Peraza I could not help but do the most terrible thing, I had to think out.

Por Gildo González Angulo

 

MEET THE MUSIC
Two musical giants explore the mysteries of antartica - Ricardo Rondón

Two musical giants explore the mysteries of antartica

Two extraordinary composers were atracted by the mysteries ofAntartica producing formidable Works.

Por Ricardo Rondón

 

TIPS
Tips & Tops Anchorage - AMURA

Tips & Tops Anchorage

Tips & Tops Anchorage

Por AMURA

 

Valencia, Castellon & Alicante

 

RENDEZ-VOUS
Autumn - Winter in detail - AMURA

Autumn - Winter in detail

This Fall-Winter will be marked by distinctive shades, Avant-guard details and a fusion of smooth textures with particularities that dress cumulating forms. A season full of identity and personal touches.      

Por AMURA

 

JEWELRY
100 years of ruling Cartier - © Cartier

100 years of ruling Cartier

From the conception of its first panther spot motif on a watch in 1914, Cartier has maintained a constant presence throughout the years. In each design, the firm evokes instantly a unique design: figurative, graphic, playful, sweet, savage, luxurious, ferocious, or kinetic, which multiplies the surprises. 

Por © Cartier

 

TIME MACHINE
Breitling, Chronomat  Flying Fish y Francisco Toledo - Breitling

Breitling, Chronomat Flying Fish y Francisco Toledo

The high Swiss watchmaking and the artist from Oaxaca Francisco Toledo make a perfect team to launch a special edition that will have altruistic purposes in favor of an education organization for the children of Oaxaca. 

Por Breitling

 

Officine Panerai - Luis Peyrelongue

Officine Panerai

Desde su primer taller de relojería fundado en 1860 en Florencia, hasta su magnífico centro de producción inaugurado en 2014 en Pierre-à-Bot, en las colinas que rodean Neuchâtel, Officine Panerai, no deja de sorprendernos con creaciones que combinan la elegancia del diseño italiano con la tradición de la tecnología suiza.

Por Luis Peyrelongue

 

INTERNATIONAL COMPASS
Comunitat Valenciana - Vicente Niclos Albarracin / Jesus Peraza

Comunitat Valenciana

The first inhabitants were the Iberian tribes in the interior hills, as Liria or Sagunto; later, during the Second Punic War (218 – 212 BC) the Romans and the Carthaginians fought over the ownership of the coast, winning at the end the formers. 

Por Vicente Niclos Albarracin / Jesus Peraza

 

Valencia, a source of emotions - María Luisa Martínez Vacas

Valencia, a source of emotions

Valencia is sun, warmth and a sea covered by a blue sky that captures you. Valencia is a feast, a present for your senses. It is Avant guard, culture and tradition. The enrapture surges when you breathe the Mediterranean air of this city that exudes life, light and color. The main protagonist is its people that embraced me, making me feel as if their home was my home. 

Por María Luisa Martínez Vacas

 

OUTBOARD
Caro hotel - Alicia Gutiérrez

Caro hotel

After seven years of detailed restoration and reconversion work, which began in 2005, the old Palace of Marquis of Caro reopened its doors under a new identity and with a renewed purpose.

Por Alicia Gutiérrez

 

Parador de El Saler - Rebeca Castillo

Parador de El Saler

The hotel is located at 18 km of Valencia and it offers the best location possible, right in the middle of the Natural Park of Albufera, close to the Saler and the Dehesa beaches. The Architecture of the place is in total agreement with its surroundings: Woods of pines, dunes and the Mediterranean Sea as the background. 

Por Rebeca Castillo

 

Palau de la Mar - Lizethe Dagdug

Palau de la Mar

Un edificio palaciego del siglo XIX, ubicado dentro del corazón cosmopolita de Valencia, constituye al Hoste Palau de la Mar, de cinco estrellas.

Por Lizethe Dagdug

 

WINDOWS TO THE WORLD
Yaeyama Islands, Japan - AMURA

Yaeyama Islands, Japan

Yaeyama Islands, Japan

Por AMURA

 

Les Baux de Provence, France - AMURA

Les Baux de Provence, France

Les Baux de Provence, France

Por AMURA

 

Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska - AMURA

Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska

Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska

Por AMURA

 

Daintree Rainforest, Australia - AMURA

Daintree Rainforest, Australia

Daintree Rainforest, Australia

Por AMURA

 

FLEET
Benetti Sai Ram - Edmiston & Company

Benetti Sai Ram

Benetti has never before made one quite like her. On boarding Sai Ram, it is not difficult to understand why this yacht is so uncharacteristic for her builder.

Por Edmiston & Company

 

Azimut Magellano 76 - Azimut Yachts

Azimut Magellano 76

 In essence a yacht is simply excitement on the water. In essence, the beauty of the design is simply our Italian heritage which we export around the world. In essence, developing the most innovative technology requires simply years of preparation, and checking safety simply the most demanding tests.

Por Azimut Yachts

 

CONSERVANCY
Lynx Iberian - Gerardo López

Lynx Iberian

The Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus) is catalogued by the World Union for Nature (UICN) as the most threatened feline in the world.

Por Gerardo López

 

TOYS COLLECTION
Hybrid cars - Alonso Bejarano

Hybrid cars

One of the reasons that move the car industry to maintain itself in constant innovation is the care for the environment, and that is why the companies develop machines with new energy and with an impact less aggressive for the planet.

Por Alonso Bejarano

 

GOURMET
Canyar - Renata Burgos

Canyar

Opened in 1986, it is located closed to downtown Valencia; today, this restaurant is a reference to Mediterranean food.

Por Renata Burgos

 

Marisquería Civera - Renata Burgos

Marisquería Civera

It began as a dream in the 60’s, when some members of the Civera family began as apprentices of the hotel business in the best restaurants of the City. 

Por Renata Burgos

 

La sucursal - Renata Burgos

La sucursal

This restaurant is located inside the Institute of Modern Art of Valencia, first museum dedicated to modern art to be opened in Spain.

Por Renata Burgos

 

Vertical - Renata Burgos

Vertical

Located in the 9th floor of the Confortel 4 Hotel, it offers unequalled panoramic views of the City of the Arts and the Sciences.

Por Renata Burgos

 

TASTERS
Agua de Valencia - César Mejía

Agua de Valencia

As an allegory, this can be supported in The Court of the Waters of the Meadow of Valencia, the oldest institution of justice in Europe and that, even today, get together to solve the water problems in the land of Valencia.  

Por César Mejía

 

CONQUERORS
The foundation of the historic tradition  - Jesús Peraza

The foundation of the historic tradition

Marco de la Rasilla, professor and Prehistory Researcher with the University of Oviedo, refers that based on the remains left by the Homo neanderthalensis in Europe, it is believed that the Neanderthal appeared in this region about 230,000 years and disappeared about 35,000 years ago.  

Por Jesús Peraza

 

CHARACTER
The prince of Valencia - Yolanda Bravo Saldaña

The prince of Valencia

When referencing the legendary figure of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the Cid Campeador, and his years in Levante, it is worth to differentiate the historical data, firmly documented, from the literary works loaded with mythical elements. It is always necessary to compare them; however, they should not be mixed-up. 

Por Yolanda Bravo Saldaña

 

MEET THE MUSIC
Joaquín Rodrigo - Ricardo Rondón

Joaquín Rodrigo

Joaquín Rodrigo was born in Sagunto, within  the Province of Valencia on november 22, 1901. He lost his sight when he was only 3 years old due to complications from Diphtheria. His precocious talent was recognized by local Valencian musicians and his studies were supervised by the notable composer, folklorist and writer Eduardo López. 

Por Ricardo Rondón

 

DESIGN
Architecture Valencian Style  - Cesar Mejía

Architecture Valencian Style

In 1951, in the city hall of Benimámet, Valencia, one of the architects who has left his print throughout the world was born: Santiago Calatrava Valls. This character, who enjoys great recognition in the contemporary Architecture

Por Cesar Mejía

 

TIPS
Tips & Tops Valencia - AMURA

Tips & Tops Valencia

Tips & Tops Valencia

Por AMURA