Around the World

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 48: Gran Canaria Gran Canaria is the third-largest of the seven Canary Islands — 1,560 square kilometres, roughly the size of the American state of Rhode Island — and sits approximately two hundred kilometres off the Moroccan coast, at the same latitude as the […]

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 47: Tenerife Tenerife is the largest of the seven Canary Islands — 2,034 square kilometres, roughly the size of the state of Luxembourg — and sits approximately three hundred kilometres off the southern Moroccan coast at the same latitude as the Sahara. It has

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 46: Lanzarote Lanzarote is one thousand kilometres south of Madrid, one hundred and twenty-five kilometres off the coast of southern Morocco, and geologically in Africa in every sense the geology cares about. Lanzarote-born artist who came home from New York in 1968 The island

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 45: Málaga For approximately three thousand years, Málaga has been a working Mediterranean port on the southern coast of Spain, roughly a hundred and thirty kilometres east of the Strait of Gibraltar and directly opposite — across two hundred kilometres of narrowing sea —

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 44: Seville Seville is the Andalusian capital that ran the legal monopoly on Spanish trade with the Americas for 214 years, completed Spain’s expulsion of its Moorish-descended population in 1609–1614, and contains the largest Gothic cathedral in the world built on top of an

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 43: Madrid Madrid is the Spanish capital that was deliberately chosen by Philip II from an insignificant inland town, became the world capital of seventeenth-century painting by accident of imperial wealth, and remains the only major European capital with no indigenous regional identity to

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 42: Mallorca Mallorca is the largest Balearic Island, the medieval kingdom that gave its name to a thirteenth-century Mediterranean state, the cultural landscape UNESCO inscribed for its Tramuntana mountain terraces, and the European leader in twenty-first-century tourism regulation. Mallorca deeper history starts with the

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 41: Valencia Valencia is the Spanish Mediterranean city that diverted its catastrophic river out of its centre after the 1957 flood, converted nine kilometres of dry riverbed into Europe’s largest urban park, and quietly became one of the most liveable major cities on the

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 40: Barcelona Barcelona is the Catalan capital that became one of the most globally recognised city brands in Europe without ever becoming a national capital, designed substantially by a single generation of nineteenth-century architects, the most famous of whom is currently being canonised by

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 39: Perpignan Perpignan has been French for 366 years. Perpignan was Catalan for the five centuries before that. The capital of the medieval Kingdom of Mallorca is now a French sub-prefecture. The flag on the town hall is the same gold-and-red striped Senyera that