With the two countries Belgium and Spain, Spain is the most prominent country that features Flamenco dancing. In fact, there is a place in the country featuring different shows of it and it is Granada. This is a province in Spain with many clubs for flamenco dancing. If you would like to have idea about the places in the province that feature flamenco dancing, reading this up would be great.

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Eshavira Club

The name of the club is just painted on plain white wall. It is actually an underground chamber with hazy vault. The place is the origin of some of the best flamenco dancers of the country itself. The pace is also a home for some great dancers and musicians. The shows in here are sometimes changeable.

Raiz y Duende at Sala Vimaambi

This is one of the best and lively flamenco dancing clubs. It actually offers great dancers and musicians uplifting the spirit of the crowd, making them fun to watch the dancers dancing their own dance. Aside from the great performers, this place also caters excellent food and cuisines.

Huerto Del Loro

This is not so much visited by tourist, since it is far from the city centre. The only thing is that, it is one of the most affordable Flamenco clubs in Granada. The domed theatre is grayish, but warmly lit yield having a simple lavender flamenco cover that serve as the backdrop. The place has regular artists who show flamenco dancing skills.

Peña Flamenca La Plateria

This is one of the oldest flamenco dancing clubs in the Spain. It was built in the year 1949. This is a place run and operated by flamenco enthusiasts having an objective of nurturing and supporting the craft instead of making money. The establishment is only open during Thursday nights. The performers for the show are thoroughly chosen from the best flamenco dancers of the city and other countries. The show in this place is serious and well rehearsed.

Upsetter

This is located in the city center that is why, there are some days that the place is too busy and gathered a number of tourists watching the show. The place has the best local performers of flamenco dancing. The best day to visit the country is during Monday nights, as it has local artists showing and performing.

These are only some of the places that offer flamenco dancing in Granada. There are still other places to visit in the place itself. If you like flamenco dancing, visiting Granada is a great way to be inspired more to continue the craft and perform it perfectly. Aside from flamenco dancing, Granada is also one of the places in Spain that offer great views, scenery and adventures.

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Meteora, Greece / Konstantinos Koukopoulos

But forget the cityscapes of Bruges and Paris, as beautiful as they are, because the originality just isn’t there. These are the tours that everyone does, and they don’t require that much effort either.  Instead, to truly discover those inspiring landscapes that had your jaw dropping at the credits, check out these fascinating European locations that can form the backdrop to your next European holiday.

Meteora, Greece

Perched precariously on top of the rocky Meteroa mountains in Thessaly, Greece, are a collection of monasteries which are incredibly difficult to reach. The original 9th Century monks had formed an order by climbing these formidable rock towers and occupying the hollows and tunnels which ran across their surfaces, and it wasn’t for another three thousand years or so before solid structures began to appear.

Named Meteroa, meaning ‘In the Heavens Above’, only a handful of the original 24 are still inhabited by monks, and although visitors are welcome, you really do need to put in the effort to get to them. Stone steps and walkways lead intrepid visitors up the edge of uncertain cliffs to get to the buildings atop them.  Fans of the James Bond movies will recognise one of the monasteries, Holy Trinity (which is the least accessible of them all), from the movie For Your Eyes. Whether you manage the climb all the way to the top or not the view from this area is inspiring.

Marktschellenberg, Germany

Located just south of Salzburg is an open meadow that should be instantly recognisable to fans of the Von Trapp family.  It is of course the meadow through which Julie Andrews ran and sang with such wanton abandon in The Sound of Music nearly 50 years ago.  The meadow has reportedly changed little in that time, although producers do admit to having added one or two background trees to their shots during production for the effect.  This iconic location is easy to get to and, along with other locations from the film in the neighbouring towns, forms a tour that has quickly become one of the most popular walking holidays in Europe.

Mamores, Scotland, UK / Graham Lewis

Mamores, Scotland

The Mamores isn’t actually a place, but rather a mountain range in the Scottish Highlands.  Lying close to the town of Fort William, the Mamores incorporates ten of Scotland’s highest mountains that form a continuous and circuitous route from one to the next.  This is the type of walking that requires specialist gear, so don’t think about hopping up the nearest hill in your trainers when you’re on a day trip to the area.

The height of these mountains makes the weather unpredictable and confusing so experience is essential.  If you do fit into this category and you find yourself standing at the top of Stob Ban or Am Bodach, you’ll be following in the footsteps of Mel Gibson’s epic trek as William Wallace in Braveheart.  And while you might not be lucky enough to meet a wild man in a kilt on your holiday, the spectacular view of the surrounding mountaintops should more than make up for it.

Byline: Fiona Galloway is a travel writer who has written about walking holidays in Europe.

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Jägala Falls are about 8 meters high. The water of Jägala River cuts into the limestone and formed here about 300 feet long valley. It flows into the nearby water reservoir Linnamäe Veehoidla and then to the Baltic Sea. Jägala Falls partially freeze in winter and get a nice icy backdrop.

The oldest known written record of a water mill in Estonia (from the early 13th century) dates from here.

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Loket has 3 000 inhabitants and it is located in the Sokolov District in the Karlovy Vary region of the Czech Republic. Most people visit Loket as a day trip from Karlovy Vary, but it’s also a sleepy place to ease off the travel accelerator for a few days.

Loket means “elbow” in English. The town is named this due to the town centre being surrounded on three sides by the Ohře River, and the shape the river takes is similar to that of an elbow. The town centre itself features Loket Castle, a 12th century gothic castle. The town centre is a national monument and as such is preserved from modern developments.

There is an annual opera festival in an open air amphitheatre with the castle as a backdrop.

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