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  • Tuore tilasto: yli 600 000 suomalaista vieraili Espanjassa viime vuonna

    Tuore tilasto: yli 600 000 suomalaista vieraili Espanjassa viime vuonna

    Vuonna 2024 Espanjassa vieraili 608 825 suomalaista, mikä on 3 % enemmän kuin edellisvuonna. Suosituimpia alueita ovat Kanariansaaret ja Andalusia, mutta myös esimerkiksi Baskimaa ja Galicia kasvattavat suosiotaan. Keskimääräinen kulutus matkoilla on kasvussa, ja hotellit ovat edelleen suosituin majoitusmuoto. Vaikka omatoimimatkat ovat yleisiä, matkanjärjestäjillä on yhä tärkeä rooli.

  • Guggenheimin taidemuseo Bilbaossa.

    Espanjalla laaja edustus Matkamessuilla 17.–19.1.2025

    Espanja esittäytyy Matkamessuilla 2025 (17.–19.1.) laajalla tarjonnalla, ja mukana on myös monia suomalaisille vähemmän tunnettuja alueita. Espanjan osastolla 6p50 on 13 alanäytteilleasettajaa esittelemässä matkakohteiden uutuuksia ja tapahtumia. Median edustajat voivat sopia haastatteluja etukäteen. Tervetuloa osastolle!

  • Maailman turismijärjestö valitsi vuoden 2023 parhaat matkailukylät – joukossa peräti kolme espanjalaiskylää

    Maailman turismijärjestö valitsi vuoden 2023 parhaat matkailukylät – joukossa peräti kolme espanjalaiskylää

    Espanjalaiset kylät Cantavieja, Oñati ja Sigüenza ovat valittu vuoden 2023 parhaiden matkailukylien joukkoon Maailman turismijärjestön (UNWTO) toimesta.
    Maailman turismijärjestön parhaiden matkailukylien listalle valitaan vuosittain maaseutukyliä, jotka ovat edelläkävijöitä maisemien, kulttuurisen monimuotoisuuden, paikallisten arvojen ja kulinaaristen perinteiden säilyttämisessä. Listalle pääs

  • Spain achieves with 'Talayotic Menorca' its 50th inscription on the UNESCO’s World Heritage List

    Spain achieves with 'Talayotic Menorca' its 50th inscription on the UNESCO’s World Heritage List

    The candidature 'Talayotic Menorca, an island cyclopean odyssey'has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. With this new inscription, Spain has 50 World Heritage sites in its territory, which makes it one of the countries with the largest amount of inscriptions on the list.
    An exceptional case of a living archaeological and monumental landscape
    Beyond its lovely coves, Menorca has o

  • New webinar about hidden gems in Spain organised by the Spanish Tourist Office

    New webinar about hidden gems in Spain organised by the Spanish Tourist Office

    Turespaña, through the Spanish Tourist Office in Helsinki, in collaboration with the tourism authorities of Menorca, Aragón and Castilla-La Mancha, has organised the webinar Hidden gems in Spain 2023, which took place on 10 May 2023 and was aimed at Finnish travel professionals.

    The webinar featured three special destinations that are still undiscovered by most of the Finnish population: Me

  • New webinar organised by the Spanish Tourist Office about Spain’s Cultural Routes


    The Spanish Tourist Office in Helsinki, in collaboration with SMAL and Cultural Routes in Spain, has organised the webinar Spain’s Cultural Routes: new value-added activities, which took place on 6 April 2022 and was aimed at Finnish travel professionals.
    Cultural Routes in Spain is a tourist brand endorsed by the Secretary of State for Tourism and Trade of the Government of Spain. It curre

  • The Spanish Tourism Institute and Netflix launch "Spain Travel Guide" and a short film contest to highlight the diversity of Spain through fiction

    The Spanish Tourism Institute and Netflix launch "Spain Travel Guide" and a short film contest to highlight the diversity of Spain through fiction

    ● The guide covers the 17 autonomous regions and shows the cultural, environmental and local leisure richness through stories.

    ● In addition, both entities have presented the short film contest “How would you say it is Spain without saying it?”, aimed at inspiring students to create stories that highlight the diversity of Spanish cities and towns.
    The growth of audiovisual productions in

  • Travel across Spain with Renfe's new one-day routes

    Travel across Spain with Renfe's new one-day routes


    Renfe is set to run thematic tourist trains throughout 2022 in partnership with various institutions and tourist organisations. In Galicia, up to 13 one-day routes will be scheduled for the season. In Castilla-La Mancha, the classic ‘Medieval Train’ will run between Madrid and Sigüenza. And, as the latest addition to the programme, the ‘Train of the Mills’ will be launched between Madrid and

  • Madrid’s Landscape of Light is a World Heritage Site

    The area comprising Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro has become the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Spanish capital
    Madrid’s Landscape of Light is a World Heritage Site
    ● The decision was made on 25 July at the 44th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Fuzhou, China
    ● The nomination, made in the category of Cultural Landscapes, was based on the site's combination of cu