2023 is being a great year for getting away, especially with the good weather that spring has brought us, and any weekend is ideal for escaping from the city and discovering new areas.
This time we have helped each other Traveler Review Awards that Booking organizes annually to choose the new destination. Taking a look at the winners is the perfect excuse to get to know new areas of the world, because they choose the regions best valued by users.
Using the 240 million user comments from December 1, 2019 to November 30, 2022, the winners are chosen and this year the most welcoming region in the world is Spanish and we love to mark ourselves a three-hour getaway from Madrid.
La Rioja, the most welcoming region in the world
We talk about La Rioja, which has been chosen as the most welcoming region in the world. It is not surprising. Its gastronomy is wonderful, it has spectacular wines and living there is wonderful because of its people, its lifestyle and its tranquility.
Towns like Briñas, Ezcaray or San Vicente de la Sonsierra are just a little A very small example of what we can find in this Spanish region that we love so much. To know it we propose nine plans for a top getaway full of nature, towns and wine. And there is no lack of a visit to Logroño and its Laurel street to mark the tapas of the century.
The friendliest regions in the world
The first five are European, and the first, as we have already told you, Spanish, La Rioja. But since sharing is living, we will tell you what the others are. In second place is Epirus in Greece, Oberösterreich in Austria ranks thirdCounty Down in the United Kingdom the fourth and Mures, in Romania, the fifth.
Marlborough (New Zealand), Ninh Binh (Vietnam), Limón (Costa Rica), Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada) and North Dakota (United States), closes the top ten one of the friendliest regions in the world.
The friendliest cities in the world
If we are looking for something more urban, we can escape to the most welcoming cities in the world where we also find Spanish representation in third place with Saint Sebastian.
First place went to Polignano a Mare in Italy and the second for the City of Hualien in Taiwan. Fourth and fifth place go to Dresden (Germany) and Klaipeda (Lithuania) respectively, followed by York (United Kingdom), Ushuaia (Argentina), Porto de Galinhas (Brazil), Mexico City (Mexico) and Gold Coast (Australia).
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