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The board of Andalusia (Spain) and Microsoft created to Lucia, a robot of chat that recommends that you place to visit in Andalusia.
It adds to the Live Messenger as any contact and you have to wait for you accept, because of good wins makes automatically. Your address messenger is robotlucia@andalucia.org.
According to its creators, is trained to answer between 500 and 600 questions on topics of tourism.
Destinations Blog was connected with the robot Lucia and so we responded:
Lucia said:
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Destinations Blog said:
Yes Lucia.
Lucia said:
Yes, question about beaches, golf or hotels.

Many tourists do not expect the underground counting the minutes, but admiring works of art, because the global networks of this transport have become extensive exhibitions groundwater where there are even art alive.
The art in the metro has become more critical and experimental to draw the attention of a large public and that often goes in a hurry.
Some cities hold true jewels: the station Chamberi in Madrid, closed in 1966, became station-museum in March 2008, and you can visit their facilities as they were. While the station of the Withdrawal hides a chamber of photographic exhibition: Expometro.
“Arts for Transit”, a branch of the state agency for transport of New York, employs artists, musicians, photographers, sculptors and painters) to decorate and give life to their stations.
Major designers such as Norman Foster, who designed the Millennium Bridge in London and the Hearst Tower in New York, have participated in projects such as the design of Bilbao underground and the station of Canary Wharf in London.
The structure of iron of the station of Brin Station in Genoa, Italy, was designed by the creator of Pompidou Center in Paris, the famous architect Renzo Piano.
The station multicolor of Olaias in Portugal is the work of the famous Portuguese architect Thomas Taveira and a group of artists. Together created a station of spectacular modernist aesthetic the Expo’98.
Is the case of stations as the Montebello in Lille, France, with their fish tanks, he explains Bruno Cappelle, of the tourist office of the city.
Athens has a museum underground inspired in ancient Greece. The shutdown of the Acropolis, for example, includes a permanent exhibition with copies of the Parthenon and replicas of sculptures that are exhibited in the British Museum in London. Read the rest of this entry »