Hi Gentlemen,

Good Day.

Sorry to inform that as I do not know Spanish, my posting here shall be in English.

Let me post one good news here.
Appreciate if someone could translate to Spanish.

I am from Trivandrum, India's South West corner.
Very soon these two cities shall be associating closely.

I would like to welcome someone from here to break the language barrier.
My home city Trivandrum, has already been declared as the Cousin City of Barcelona.

Trivandrum is India's Southernmost Metropolitan city.
It is a beautiful sea side city built on a number of hills.

Once Trivandrum & Barcelona collaborate, hope we people shall be learning Spanish.
Let this thread be active and we can exchange more information here.

Please click the links below.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...1#post40664536

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=242591&page=95

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...1#post40664536

Thanks for the news. First time I hear about your city :okay:

post some pics, please

Thanks for the news. First time I hear about your city :okay:

post some pics, please

Hi Dan,

Good Day and thanks for the note.

May be you are hearing about my city for the first time.
But you (and ofcourse, the people of Barcelona too) shall learn more about Trivandrum very soon.

It seems that you are a very very active forumer and hence you can share the message with other Spanish people in your own language.

There are a number of threads in SSC, exclusively for Trivandrum. You are most welcome to visit our threads and post your comments over there. However, me and my colleagues shall be posting pictures of our city, which is popularly known as India's Ever Green City.

Please click the below links for more information and pictures.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=400311

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=699404

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1372


http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=770578&page=70

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=842154

People can learn catalan too :P

Hi Gentlemen,

Good Day.

Sorry to inform that as I do not know Spanish, my posting here shall be in English.

Let me post one good news here.
Appreciate if someone could translate to Spanish.

I am from Trivandrum, India's South West corner.
Very soon these two cities shall be associating closely.

I would like to welcome someone from here to break the language barrier.
My home city Trivandrum, has already been declared as the Cousin City of Barcelona.

Trivandrum is India's Southernmost Metropolitan city.
It is a beautiful sea side city built on a number of hills.

Once Trivandrum & Barcelona collaborate, hope we people shall be learning Spanish.
Let this thread be active and we can exchange more information here.

Please click the links below.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...1#post40664536

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=242591&page=95

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...1#post40664536
Great and nice news!
Thanks.

People can learn catalan too :P
Hi Confide,
U mean catalan is different language from Espanol?
Cheers
Vin

->現在日本ですんでいますか？

People can learn catalan too :P

Thanks Confide.

We can teach you many Indian languages.
People of Trivandrum speak Malayalam, our Mother tongue.
However, a great majority speak English.

Other languages being used at Trivandrum are Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Gujarati, Urdu etc. As of now we have Russian & German cultural centres, from where we can learn those two languages too.

Now we are gonna get the chance to languages of Spain.

Cheers

Great and nice news!
Thanks.

Bel,

You are most welcome.
Hope you will share the message with your other Spanish friends.
BTW, what is the percentage of people handling English in Spain in general and Barcelona in particular.

I have few Spanish friends as my colleagues & neighbours at the Middle East.
Many Spanish tourists visit Trivandrum every year.

Hi Confide,
U mean catalan is different language from Espanol?
Cheers
Vin

->現在日本ですんでいますか？

Vinod,

Appreciate, if you can post pictures of Trivandrum here.

Hi Confide,
U mean catalan is different language from Espanol?
Cheers
Vin

->現在日本ですんでいますか？

yes, Catalan and Spanish are different languages.

després venen les sorpreses :ohno:

no

^^ em referia a la gent que arriba a Catalunya sense saber que aquí es parla un altre idioma

no

^^ em referia a la gent que arriba a Catalunya sense saber que aquí es parla un altre idioma

Efectiviwonder. Això passa molt amb els Erasmus, i després passa el que passa...

^^ em referia a la gent que arriba a Catalunya sense saber que aquí es parla un altre idioma

això de l'idioma.. es molt relatiu. Pots viure a Barcelona tranquilament sense sapiguer Català.

^^ sense parlar sí, sense entendre'l...no ho tinc tant clar

no

^^ sí, però han de canviar el nom urgentment, Trivandrum sona massa a medicament :D

^^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiruvananthapuram

^^ തിരുവനന്തപുരം sona molt millor

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Thiruvananthapuram.ogg

:nuts:

^^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiruvananthapuram

Hello guys,

thank you all very much for finding time to go thru' the information related to Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram). I wish, I knew Spanish to read you valuable comments and remarks. Shall be much appreciated, if someone can translater the postings in Spanish.

no

^^ Al Google Mapes es veu un hàbitat dispers, amb moltes cases i pocs blocs. El centre és més dens, però tampoc arriba a nivells inhumans.

D'altra banda això és una bona raó per a fer l'article en català a la Viquipèdia, que encara no el tenim. :)

^^

The comments are in Catalan, and are mostly about how foreigners don't know about our language...

Anyway, what I find interesting about your city is that, at least in the pictures you've shown, it looks more like a park. I guess the residential districts are much denser (and I'd like to see pictures of them!) but it's nice to have such open spaces :)

Trivandrum has a very good vegetation and it looks green everywhere.
Hence the city is popularly known as India's Ever Green City.

I will arrange to post some pictures.

PS: But we don't have too much open space, as you feel. We have a number of residential & commercial properties under the tall trees.
Also we have Coconut Palms in plenty, which could cover even 15 to 18 m tall buildings.

Trivandrum has a very good vegetation and it looks green everywhere.
Hence the city is popularly known as India's Ever Green City.

I will arrange to post some pictures.

PS: But we don't have too much open space, as you feel. We have a number of residential & commercial properties under the tall trees.
Also we have Coconut Palms in plenty, which could cover even 15 to 18 m tall buildings.

Yes. There are lot of coconut trees every where, and it covers all the residential areas even upto 10 storeys. Only the sky scrapers can be seen out of this green canopy.

Check out the below pictures of a 20+ storied building. Even though it stands in the midst of densly populated residential blocks, the buildings below the height of tall coconut palms are covered fully.

True to be called as "EVER GREEN CITY"


http://i29.tinypic.com/2e56wdu.jpg

http://i25.tinypic.com/oqdog8.jpg

Una breu introducció, gràcies al traductor Google. Vaig a tractar de donar més informació en breu.

Thiruvananthapuram és la capital de Kerala, situat a la regió sud-occidental de l'Índia. És un gran comercial, centre cultural i educatiu al sud profund, i és un floreciente centro de tecnologia de la informació. Te una població de més d'1 milió. No obstant això, encara és una ciutat verda assegut enrere amb moltes avingudes arbrades i llargues platges de sorra.

Gràcies
Sreejith

Napier Museum - An architectural splendour; combines traditional Kerala style with the Chinese, Italian and Mughal influences
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4/rajithtvm/museum8.jpg


The 19th century English architect, Chisholm, designed the building, which houses a rare collection of archaoelogical and historical artifacts
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4/rajithtvm/museum7.jpg


The interiors of the Indo-Sarcenic structure are every bit as intriguing as the exterior with pink and blue stripes alternating with stripes of yellow and cherry red, scalloped arches of a banana yellow, interpreting elaborately carved balconies, the whole linked together with red and white lattice work and mock friezes.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4/rajithtvm/museum6.jpg


The building boasts of a natural air conditioning system
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4/rajithtvm/museum3.jpg


The whimsical building dating from 1880, displays an assortment of bronzes, historical and contemporary ornaments, temples carts, ivory carvings and life size figures of Kathakali dancers in full costumes
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4/rajithtvm/museum1.jpg



Nearby, there is the Natural History Museum, first opened in 1857, that has a collection of ethnographic pieces, animal skeletons and stuffed animals and birds
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4/rajithtvm/museum4.jpg



An exceptional piece of architecture, the Museum is named after the former Madras Governor General John Napier
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4/rajithtvm/museum9.jpg

This is the secreteriate building, seat of power.
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/5164/statuerd29eh.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Now see some down town pics

Photo Courtesy: Sumesh Nair S

http://i29.tinypic.com/2lt1rna.jpg

In the Royal Victorian style... the Icon of Trivandrum and the ruling power of Kerala... The Secretariat, Trivandrum on a cloudy evening.

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/3939/secretariatl.jpg

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/282/secretariat1.jpg

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9360/secretariat2j.jpg

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3141/dsc00744v.jpg (http://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00744v.jpg)

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/9696/dsc00733f.jpg (http://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00733f.jpg)

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1043/dsc00731t.jpg (http://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00731t.jpg)

Nice pictures, Sanju.
Thanks for taking time & pain to post these good pictures.

Cheers.

Thanx for the pix... but.. cousin city??

Hello guys,

thank you all very much for finding time to go thru' the information related to Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram). I wish, I knew Spanish to read you valuable comments and remarks. Shall be much appreciated, if someone can translater the postings in Spanish.

Hey buddy, you definitely do not know Catalonia, do you? I am not Spaniard, yet I do know there are several languages over there, and you happen to be posting in the Cataloa forum in which people post in Catalan. I am giving you this link, so that you soak up some basic stuffs about this interesting part of the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia

BTW, I am just visiting the Catalan forum too, so don't worry, SSC is a learners community. Cheers!

Trivandrum Celebrates as its Cousin(Spain including Barcelona) wins the World Cup 2010..:banana:

:cheers::cheers:

^^

The comments are in Catalan, and are mostly about how foreigners don't know about our language...

Anyway, what I find interesting about your city is that, at least in the pictures you've shown, it looks more like a park. I guess the residential districts are much denser (and I'd like to see pictures of them!) but it's nice to have such open spaces :)

Sorry to continue with this off-topic conversation, but I think I have identified why lots of people thinks in Catalonia everybody speaks Spanish.

I'm Argentinean and until some years ago, when latin tv channels, and US tv channels in Spanish invaded all signal, everyone used to say "castellano" instead of Spanish. Now with the hegemony of US/Mexican cultural simplified parameters people is starting to say "espanol" instead of "castellano".

Imagine in the rest of the world, particularly the one most influenced by US/UK cultural imports, hearing during decades the word "Spanish" for the concept of "castillan"; they immediately associate that word with the country. Even in wikipedia, instead of saying "castillan" it says "Spanish".

So people that doesn't have particular knowledge about Spain, would think "Spanish" is the only language of the country. It's a simplification but it's sadly like that. Just a few ask themselves if there are another language in Spain, and they don't even imagine 20% of population or more speak other languages, not dialects but LANGUAGES.

Globalization levels down culturally.
I think nowhere else that is more visible than in Catalonia, Argentina, France and Uruguay.