A New Way of Travelling

Prior to the 19th century, being a traveller did not only depend on having the right economic resources and a good portion of daring and fearlessness. Sometimes, if the winds didn’t blow adequately, even in our old Europe being so bold could lead us into uncertain destiny... Nevertheless, these hazards didn’t discourage the curious pioneers, luckily. At the beginning of the industrialisation century, some devilish machines appeared boosted by steam energy, that scared many with their terrible noise, but they became the anticipation of modern individual vehicles. The train played a decisive role in the world technological development, and contributes nowadays to the avant-garde of quality travel and is a sustainable transportation besides. Today, we can be whisked from the Mediterranean coast to Castile rapidly, enjoying the landscape and reaching promptly the centre of our main cities. Added to the advantages of this agile communications, we have to consider as well our input as sensitive people in the context of cultural travel. We believe that in the era of velocity, not everything has to fly, and therefore being down-to-earth allows us to discover lovely corners close from here, on a bird’s view, but standing on a branch.. Some of the most legendary routes in the world were followed by the railway, as for instance, based on the rich English merchants on the 18th Century, who departed from London to Venice for widening their cultural views, was born the Orient-Express train as an advance north-south. The Trans-Siberian is likely the longest railway in the world, as over its 6000 kilometres its trace continuous a history of unique misthycism and mystery. Closer to us, the Cantabric coast dyes in green the comfortable journey of the passengers on the thematic train “Transcantábrico”. In the south, its competitor “Al-Andalus” witnesses the Muslim past, in an opulent and magic journey.