SOME SUGGESTIONS:

The Dal­las Mu­seum of Art, down­town in gen­eral, most par­tic­u­larly the old town, and the dis­trict Deep Ellum. Right next to Dal­las there’s al­most like a twin city called Fort Worth (our air­port is called Dal­las Fort Worth), I would rec­om­mend going to Cow­town to see the deep cow­boy cul­ture of Texas, see a rodeo, and the Kim­bell Art Mu­seum.

In terms of the state of Texas, Hill Coun­try, the area be­tween Austin, the state cap­i­tal, and San An­to­nio, an old city that has what’s called mis­sions, 18th cen­tury build­ings with a lot of his­tory, the Nasa Space Cen­tre in Hous­ton, and for those in­ter­ested in the coun­try­side I would rec­om­mend the Big Bend Na­tional Park. Texas is a very in­ter­est­ing state which has been in­de­pen­dent, and has lived under six dif­fer­ent flags — the flags of Spain, France, Mex­ico, Texas, the South­ern States and the flag of the United States.

There’s a big foodie cul­ture here in Dal­las, and you have a mix­ture of very fancy restau­rants, Texan restau­rants and Mex­i­can ones. The Mex­i­can and Tex-Mex tra­di­tion is ex­tremely im­por­tant, so you can find many places serv­ing ex­cel­lent tacos, bur­ri­tos, and all sorts of Mex­i­can food, which are part of the local cul­ture. His­panic her­itage is ex­tremely im­por­tant here.

Monarch, a fine restau­rant in down­town Dal­las, on the 49th floor of The Na­tional build­ing. You can get fan­tas­tic food and the best views of the city’s sky­line.

I would say Oc­to­ber, sort of end of sum­mer, be­gin­ning of au­tumn, be­cause dur­ing the sum­mer it’s ex­tremely hot – dry heat, but still hot. How­ever, in au­tumn you have beau­ti­ful days, 25-27 de­grees, al­ways sun­shine and in the evening it gets cooler. Dal­las has blue skies every day!

I would say, the Kim­bell Art Mu­seum, in Fort Worth, it has an im­pres­sive art col­lec­tion of west­ern art that is not very well known, but it is much bet­ter than any­thing we have in Barcelona. It’s re­ally amaz­ing, going from the Mid­dle Ages to the 20th cen­tury. There is an­other mu­seum which is a bit of a rare gem here in Dal­las, the 6th Floor Mu­seum at Dealey Plaza, which is where Kennedy was killed – the apart­ment from the win­dow where he was killed has be­come a mu­seum which you can visit and try to un­der­stand that ter­ri­ble mo­ment in Amer­i­can his­tory. Dal­las is also an im­por­tant busi­ness cen­tre, but there is a huge amount of art, the opera, the Dal­las sym­phony or­ches­tra, and there’s a very lively art scene. Lately there are lots of fam­i­lies from the east and west coasts re­lo­cat­ing here, as it’s not as ex­pen­sive as New York or Los An­ge­les and it is a won­der­ful place to raise a fam­ily. Dal­las also has one of the most im­por­tant air­ports in North Amer­ica, so we have di­rect flights to every­where, which makes it a very in­ter­na­tional city.