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Legacy of our Forbears
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 One of the aspects that defines the best our people is to be forward-looking but at the same time, the fact of maintaining strong links with their customs and traditions. This is a duality that anyone can notice promptly. We owe great respect to the heritage and cultural legacy that our forbears left us, and this is precisely the purpose of this thematic experiences. In a very didactic and enriching approach, we'd like to present you the values and differences that have made us what we are. It is within anyone's reach on the mediterranean shore, to learn how medieval sailors used to navigate. It is so rewarding to see how the Lords in their castles and strongholds were living and defending their land. But for feeling and understand it, you might have to get soaked in an antique sailing boat or let a falcon fly from the upper ramparts of a fortress. You'll feel grand.
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Scents of the Mediterranean
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 Of our five senses, the one that most impinges on our minds and emotions is that most elusive of all – smell; the whiff of an aroma or scent provoking an immediate response in every cell of our bodies. Our ‘ Scents of the Mediterranean’ Experience has been specially designed to let you in on the secrets of – and to experience for yourselves – the elaboration of the sweetest smell of all: perfume, from the beginning of its journey within the petals of certain flowers to the fragrances with which we adorn ourselves. Although to many people perfume is nothing more than a prettily-packaged bottle with a liquid inside it, we maintain that hidden behind this façade lie centuries-old recipes and work that’s imbued with passion, which all combine to make the miracle that is – perfume. In this Experience, you’ll journey from Grasse in Provence – home of the many aromatic plants and natural essences used in creating a perfume – through the arc of the Mediterranean to Barcelona, familiarizing yourselves along the way with the composition, distillation and sale of a fragrance. Finally in Barcelona, you’ll visit the exquisite Museum of Perfume, the product of an irresistible fascination with perfume bottles and for the timeless elegance which they evoke.
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Cultural Trends
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 Have you ever had the feeling that, returning from a trip abroad, you’ve just spent two weeks isolated in a typical holiday resort, or, alternately, that even if you’ve made a determined effort to explore the local culture, you’ve found yourself surrounded by other tourists instead? In a nutshell, that you were just ‘shown the sights’? At one life, we’d like to give you the opportunity to discover our culture first-hand, and in depth, so that not only will you feel more at home in our country, but also so that you’ll be able to take some of what you’ve experienced home with you. How do we plan to do this? By, for instance, introducing you to the basics of our language, by taking you to the places where we’ve studied or worked ourselves… We’ll take you shopping with us, and you’ll discover little-known haunts that only the natives know about. In addition, we’ll show you how we host a typical dinner-party at home or for a special celebration. We’ll also show you our favourite holiday spots! Culture stops being a remote and merely intellectual concept, when it’s made fun, accessible, and relative to our own lives. And that’s our aim, for you, here at one life. In return, all we ask of you is that you bring an open mind!
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