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Photo competition
BUDDING photographers will be pleased to hear that for the fourth consecutive year, the National History Museum in Madrid is organising a photography competition open to anyone over the age of 18.
Entitled Next Station: Madrid, the theme of the competition is any type of image related to public transport in the city: vehicles, platforms, stops, passengers and stations, etc.
Madrid is a city with a very extensive and efficient transport network that links all parts of the city and its periphery. In addition, the Museum has many photographs from other periods in its collection that document the history of these means of transport, and this competition thereby becomes another tool for continuing to tell that story.
Each entrant may submit a maximum of three photographs on the website www.madrid.es
The deadline for submitting photographs is Sunday June
11 at 11.59pm.
Forty finalist photographs will be selected and will receive a diploma and a Museum catalogue. The finalist photos will also be publicised on the Madrid City Council website and social networks and will form part of an exhibition to be held at the History Museum.
From the 40 finalists, the jury will choose the three winning topprize photographs.
Fast & Furious
SPAIN has once again become a film set as the Aldeadavila Dam in Salamanca was chosen by Universal Pictures for the 10th instalment of the Fast & Furious.
The Aldeadavila dam, owned by Iberdrola, has become one of the most coveted film locations in the country. This hydroelectric installation, which continues to amaze by its grandeur and the place where it was built, in a rugged area of granite rocks whose beauty attracts hundreds of visitors every year.
On its way through the province of Salamanca, with more than half a century behind it, Aldeadavila is 140 metres high by 250 metres wide and is capable of reserving 115 cubic hectometres in an area of 368 hectares, equivalent to almost 97 stadiums such as the Bernabeu.
Nestled in the impressive canyon of the lower section of the Duero River in the Arribes del Duero Natural Park, it has also been the setting for other major film productions such as the latest Terminator saga, Doctor Zhivago, and the Spanish film La Cabina, by Antonio Mercero.
