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Barcelona. But diehard football
fans generally want more than
just strips and footballs. The
FC Barcelona shop stocks
everything a fan could possibly
desire, from baby bottles to
rubber ducks, to dog collars.
Visitors wanting to sample
the atmosphere inside the
Camp Nou stadium should find
out beforehand whether there
are any matches on during their
visit. You can buy tickets
(
including last-minute tickets)
for most games on the club’s
website, or on the door.
The club’s museum is open
every day. Located next to the
stadium, it offers an
introduction to the club’s
history as well as independent
audio tours that take you all
around the stadium, from the
guest team’s changing rooms to
the press box.
A visit to the Camp Nou Museum
including a stadium audio guide
costs €23, concessions €17.
The Sistine Madonna
from the Old Masters
Gallery in Dresden
JohannWolfgang Goethe was a
fan of the OldMasters Gallery in
Dresden. ‘My amazement
surpasses all my expectations!’
exclaimed the writer after a visit.
The space may have changed
since Goethe’s time, but the
collection, which so impressed
him is, with a few exceptions,
essentially the same.
Each year, the OldMasters
Gallery in Dresden’s Zwinger
museum complex sees over half
a million visitors pass through
its doors. The highlight of the
collection is the
Sistine Madonna
by Renaissance artist Raphael.
One of the most famous
paintings in the world, the
Madonna celebrates its 500th
birthday this year. Despite the
work of art’s global status, many
people are only familiar with
one part of the painting: the two
small angels in the bottom of the
picture, which have been
reproduced many times and
become an iconic image in their
own right.
The cherubs’ faces adorn
countless Dresden souvenirs,
fromcalendars to postcards, to
coffee cups and even umbrellas.
If you’re interested in seeing
Raphael’s angels in their original
context, the OldMasters Gallery
is well worth a visit.
Admission to the Old Masters Gallery
costs €10 for adults, €7.50
concessions.
Hungarian salami
fromBudapest
It must be the aromatic spices
and the slightly smoky taste that
makes Hungarian salami such a
popular souvenir. In 1883, Mark
Pick founded his butcher’s shop
in the southern Hungarian city
of Szeged and beganmaking his
take on Italian salami in 1885. In
the process, he created a staple
of the nation’s cuisine.
Whether cooked in stews or
sliced paper thin and served on
bread, Hungarians love their
Pick salami. You can sample the
speciality in its country of origin
in almost any of Budapest’s
many wine bars. A full-bodied
glass of red also goes well with
open sandwiches, the other
snack served in bars.
Try out this flavourful
combination at DiVino, located
on the square by the basilica,
which sells wine fromnew
Hungarian winemakers, or
Doblo in the Jewish Quarter,
which offers a range of over 100
Hungarian wines. The latter is
also a great place to try Pálinka,
the traditional fruit brandy.
A 90-minute Pálinka tasting with
salami and cold cuts at Doblo Wine
&
Bar costs €19 per head.
A cabbie from London
London has sent us a very special
souvenir, something very close
to its heart: a real-life cabbie.
AdrianWyatt is one of London’s
25,000
licensed black cab
drivers and has wrapped himself
up especially for Germanwings.
The 68-year-old Londoner has
been driving around the city in
his black taxi for around 12 years
now. Like his colleagues, Wyatt
knows the city inside out. He has
to. In order to get a black cab
licence, hopeful drivers have to
pass an examwhich is so
comprehensive that it’s known
simply as ‘the Knowledge’.
London taxi drivers have to be
familiar with every street and
every sight within a 10km radius
of Charing Cross Station, a
learning process which takes
between two and four years. You
can sometimes see apprentice
cabbies driving the streets on a
moped peering intently at amap
on a clipboard on the handlebars.
It’s such an incredible feat that,
according to a British study, the
part of the brain containing
memory is actually larger in
cabbies. Fans of the iconic cabs
can book a tour of the city with
Black Taxi Tours.
A two-hour black cab city tour for up
to five people costs €165.
AMunich stein
Pale, dark, unfiltered ormaibock
–
the city’s oldest brewery,
Augustinerbräu, has beenmaking
beer since 1328, and its numerous
varieties are very popular with the
locals. The Bavarian purity lawof
1516
states that only barley, hops,
andwater can be used in the
brewing of beer. Since then, not
much has changed.
One aspect of the purity law
has, however, been abandoned.
The law states that a measure of
beer shouldn’t cost more than
two pfennigs. These days, a
measure, which is equivalent to
one litre of beer, costs around
€7.90 at the Oktoberfest.
Around six million measures are
drunk there each year.
If you’re not in the city
between the end of September
and the beginning of October
for the world’s largest fair, you
can always visit one of the city’s
breweries. Paulaner,
Spatenbrauerei and the
Hofbrauerei all offer tours.
A one-hour tour of the Hofbräu
München costs €6 per person.
A palm tree
fromMallorca
People tend to associate
Mallorca with palm trees, and
not just because this small
island’s capital takes its name
from the evergreen plant. White
beaches surrounded by palm
trees are Mallorca’s hallmark.
Despite this, only one type of
palm tree is actually native to the
island: the dwarf palm, or
palmito
,
as the locals call it. The
large date palm trees that line
the beach promenade come from
North Africa, and were
introduced to the island by
Arabian merchants over 1,000
years ago.
Aswell as inflatable palm
trees, you’ll find plenty of other
great palmtree-themed souvenirs
onMallorca. InArtá, in the east of
the island, you can buy baskets
made frompalm leaves. They
normally have leather handles
and come in various sizes, from
pocket-sized handbags to giant
shopping baskets.
Thebest place tobuy themis at
themarket heldeveryTuesday in
Artá’s pedestrianzone.
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