It’s time to make plans and choose the international event that most appeals to you. From one end to another of the world map, here are the most suggestive and most will talk about.

Santiago de Compostela has been responsible for opening the calendar with the Holy Year. It is the second of the twenty-first century will never occur again until 2021, when the feast of St. James the Greater, July 25 match on Sunday. The call wills Jacobea special relevance in different walks of Santiago, a meeting point for pilgrims from all over the world. But especially in the Galician capital, which are scheduled to celebrate that great event high-level actions, such as Cirque du Soleil, the former leader of Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler, and Chinese pianist Lang Lang.

The irresistible Istanbul this weekend will kick-start the Cultural Capital of Europe, which holds for any excuse will demonstrate their cultural values and heritage. New museums and art centers, monuments restored, major exhibitions and a multitude of activities, festivals and concerts make up a comprehensive agenda for the event have chosen the motto Istanbul, a city of four elements.

And about 2,500 acts are those which organized the German region of the Ruhr, with which the share capital of the Ottoman Empire title of Cultural Capital 2010, in addition to Pécs, in Hungary. The region has focused miner in strut dismantled cultural fabric of their program. The Folkwang in Essen, destroyed by Allied bombing in 1945 and reissued by the British architect David Chipperfield, and Zolverein, the largest coal complex in the area, witnessed the power of the local steel industry and architectural heritage site by Unesco, will The epicenter of the Ruhr 2010 program.

If you are fond of skiing let yourself fall in February by Vancouver, which will be held from 12 February 28 Winter Olympics. This sporting event that inaugurates the year is a great opportunity to travel to this Canadian city, which is considered the highest quality of life in the world. The various tests will be performed in False Creek at Cypress Mountain Station, and in the town of Whistler, 150 km from the city.

The bicentenary of the birth of composer Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) will be held in 2010 worldwide, mainly in France and Poland, organized more than 2,000 concerts, festivals, exhibitions and even pathways in honor of the genius of musical Romanticism. But also coming to Spain specifically to the Monastery of Valldemossa, on the island of Mallorca, where he lived with George Sand between December 1838 and January 1839.

If you plan to do this year and between May and October one of those trips once in life, what better choice than China? After the power sport in Beijing, the People’s Republic becomes ready again to astonish the world with the Universal Exposition in Shanghai. It is located near the Huangpu River and has the theme Better City, Better Life. It is an opportunity not only to know the new architecture of the century, also to discover one of the most developed metropolises in recent years.

You could travel the world enjoying one by one from the 19 Grands Prix in Formula 1. But if you want to move far, two of these appointments will take place in Spain. In early May in Montmelo, while the occasion of the European Grand Prix, Grand Circus landed in the Valencia Street Circuit for the last weekend of June. And run to see Fernando Alonso with the monkey red Ferrari is enough reward.

More distant, but one that is going to talk much this summer is in South Africa, held from June 11 and July 11 World Cup, the first major international sporting event to be held in Africa. Living live the inauguration of the spectacular Soccer City in Soweto is an experience almost as much as attend the confrontation between the boys in the Red and Honduras in the Ellis Park Stadium on June 21. But beyond the sports venues, the World may be the perfect excuse for once, started the adventure, discover the city of Johannesburg, a safari or visiting Cape Town.

And in October, the center of all eyes will be the Basilica of St. Peter’s Basilica, the date on which Pope John Paul II will be beatified, five years after his death. The ceremony will be officiated by Pope Benedict XVI, the same month in 32 years to satisfy the election of Karol Wojtyla as Pope.

And if you go looking for pretexts to travel also can help you: Impressionist Normandy Festival, the Summit of Biodiversity in the Japanese city of Nagoya, the thousand-year history of Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital to satisfy the 10 — 10-10 – The Bicentennial of Independence and Centennial of the Mexican Revolution or the sight in Dubai’s Burj Dubai, the new roof of the world, with its 818 meters. Destinations all to dream, who knows, may also be realized.

Posted: January 17th, 2010 under Vancouver.
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