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 Great Travels
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Google Espana: Shortly thereafter the Madrid newspaper La co-rrcspondcncia de Espana published some of his essays and stories. Recognition came to Reyles with Beba (1894), which was followed by La raza de Cain (1900) and El terruilo (1916), impassioned but somewhat artificial novels in the realistic tradition dealing with his native heath; they show the influence of Maurice Barres and Gabriele D'Annunzio, Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, and 6mile Zola.
Traveler, What of the Night? Madrid is the night city of Spain, though Barcelona too has a lot that is attractive. In the capital, meaning in the central part of the city, not its suburbs, the new Plaza Parrilla (Grill) of the Hotel Plaza, on the 25th Floor of skyscraping Edificio Espana, has gained quick popularity. At a quite opposite altitude, the underground Pasapoga, on the Gran Via, seems to be one of the steadiest long-popular nightspots.
Taking up this hotel subject by geography, I will report first on Madrid. The hotel development in this metropolis during and since 1952 and 1953 has been little short of phenomenal. It is stated that 1200 new rooms were added in those two years alone. New de luxe hotels include: The superlatively fine and widely publicized Castellana-Hilton (in a price classification about 50 per cent above de luxe); the Savoy, remarkable for its popular roof-dancing, beside a swimming pool; the Plaza, in the new 26-story skyscraper, Edificio Espana (nightclub-grill on the 25th floor—roof garden and swimming pool on the 26th); the Wellington; theCriKcm (an "old" luxury place from 1951!); the Menfis; the Velazquez and the Commodore, the last two being apartment hotels, not catering to transients. The Emperador, together with the ever-popular Palace and
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