The Seeing Southern Travel Magazine

If travel is as important to your life as it is to ours, follow along and discover destinations that will awaken a new sense of discovery. Travel is transformative, illuminating, reviving. Through the stories that you’ll find here, we hope you uncover some locations that awaken a sense of awareness in you that you can’t shake.
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The Festival of San Fermin and Running of the Bulls
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The Festival of San Fermin and Running of the Bulls

​Like clockwork, the San Fermin Festival takes places for nine days in July in Pamplona, Spain. It's known throughout the world for the running of the bulls, but it's the festival that draws visitors and then takes on a life of its own. This festival celebrates the city's first bishop and patron saint, Saint Fermin. Thousands descend on this small northern city for a historically-rooted celebration.

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A Passion for Greek Wine
Europe, People, Greece Seeing Southern Europe, People, Greece Seeing Southern

A Passion for Greek Wine

During our last night at Danai Resort, we meet Apostolos Plahouras, head sommelier. As we walk with Plahouras through the unpretentious door into his cellar strategically located near each of the three restaurants, we feel the temperature immediately drop. 

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The Building of a Cathedral
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The Building of a Cathedral

The Sagrada Família is a Roman Catholic cathedral intent on depicting the life of Christ in all forms of sculpture, glass and ornamentation. Architect Antoni Gaudí began his work in the late 1800s, and his passion was to complete this place of worship for the people of Barcelona.

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