With the long-awaited summer break come some travel ideas for inquiring minds looking to enjoy sightseeing and, at the same time, take science on holiday with them.
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Miguel Barral suggests…
- visiting Delft (The Netherlands) to discover the cradle of microbiology and virology, in an area renowned for its prestigious painters and famous ceramics
- strolling along the cliffs and beaches near the village of Manaccan (Cornwall, UK), where titanium was discovered by a local vicar
- wandering through the Renaissance garden of Heidelberg (Germany), which started out as the eighth wonder of the world… but was never completed.
Javier Yanes invites us to…
- discover one of the hidden gems of Florence, the Galileo Museum, to contemplate its collection of ancient scientific instruments, one of the largest in the world
![-Viajes Cientificos OpenMind 2-Los dos telescopios de Galileo y, enmarcada, la lente con la que descubrió las cuatro lunas mayores de Júpiter. Crédito: Javier Yanes](https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Viajes-Cientificos-OpenMind-2.jpg)
- climb to the top of the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii and marvel at the futuristic image of the 13 telescopes exploring the sky
![Observatorios astronómicos en la cima del Mauna Kea. Crédito: Javier Yanes](https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Viajes-Cientificos-OpenMind-3.jpg)
- follow the fossil trail that tells the story of the extinction of the dinosaurs from Yucatán (Mexico) to Denmark via Spain, the United States and Tunisia
![Los acantilados de Stevns Klint. Crédito: Ragnar1904](https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Viajes-Cientificos-OpenMind-4.jpg)
- put ourselves in the shoes of one of the Apollo 11 astronauts by experiencing the launch into space from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral (Florida)
![Viajes Cientificos OpenMind 5](https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Viajes-Cientificos-OpenMind-5.jpg)
Laura Chaparro recommends…
- exploring the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (Geneva), which proved the existence of the Higgs boson
![Peter Higgs, delante del detector CMS del Gran Colisionador de Hadrones. Crédito: Maximilien Brice/CERN.](https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Turismo-cientifico-1-e1501580442933-1.jpg)
- scrutinising the cosmos from the Atacama Desert (Chile), where the European Southern Observatory’s ALMA telescope is located
![openmind-turismo-cientifico-2 Vista aérea del llano de Chajnator, con las antenas de ALMA desplegadas. Crédito: Clem & Adri Bacri-Normier (wingsforscience.com)/ESO.](https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Turismo-cientifico-2-e1501580545975-1.jpg)
- having a pint at The Eagle, the pub in Cambridge (UK) where Watson and Crick announced the discovery of the structure of DNA
![Placa en el pub The Eagle que conmemora el histórico anuncio realizado en el local. Crédito: Benjah-bmm27.-openmind-turismo-cientifico-3](https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Turismo-cientifico-3-e1501580655371-1.jpg)
- following in Marie Curie’s footsteps in her laboratory at the former Pasteur Institute, now the Curie Museum in Paris
![El laboratorio de Marie Curie conserva instrumentos utilizados por la científica. Crédito: Museo Curie.](https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Turismo-cientifico-4-e1501580749231-1.jpg)
- losing yourself in the breathtaking nature of Iceland, in search of the passage leading to the centre of the earth described by Jules Verne around the Snæfellsjökull volcano
![El volcán Snæfellsjökull, de 1500 metros de altura, está coronado por un glaciar. Crédito: Axel Kristinsson.](https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Turismo-cientifico-5-e1501580822350-2.jpg)
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