Spain's World Heritage Sites

To the average tourist, Spain means beaches and sun. But anyone who has some knowledge of European and World History knows that Spain is one of the world's major cultural and heritage centers.

The country has almost the most entries on the World Heritage List, next only to Italy...

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Top four city museums in Spain

Spain, with its myriad of influences and epic history, is a country with a diverse gamut of sights and sounds to offer its 45 million tourists who visit every year. An area where this can be seen in particular is in its museums and galleries, a rich history of art and culture has left Spain a huge legacy in this department with names such as Dali, Picasso and Miro leading th...

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The life of Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was born in Fuendetodos in 1740, a town close to Saragossa in the North east of Spain. Shortly after his family moved to nearby Saragossa and this is where he spent the early years of his life. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to José Luzanan, an artist and friend of his father. He later was to continue his studies of art in Italy before returning to Saragossa in 1771 where landed the job of painting frescoes in city's cathedral. This work, done in th...

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Spain's National Parks - one of Spains main attractions

Large areas of Spain have been set aside as national parks, which are one of Spain's main attractions. These parks exist in a sometimes comfortable, sometimes uneasy relationship to human settlement. Both the marvelous diversity of wild Spain - and the tension between wild Spain and settled Spain - can be seen in three amazing national parks...

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Ole! A Look at Spanish Music and Culture.

When an American thinks of Spanish music and culture, the images invariably conjured are those of Flamenco musicians, guitars, bullfights, beaches and sunshine. While these classic segments of Spanish culture are certainly an important part of the country's rich history and lifestyles, there is much more to Spain and Spanish music and culture than that. The truth is that Spain has been and still is one of the cultural centers of the world. With an amazingly diverse mix of historical and m...

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The Spanish islands. A wild Beauty

No visit to the lovely and historic nation of Spain would be complete without at least a cursory look at the famous Spanish islands. Thinking about it, these tropical paradises would certainly warrant a special trip just to take in all that they have to offer. The Spanish islands are located in two groups; the Canary Islands lie off the coast of the autonomous community of Andalusia (the largest such community in Spain) and the Balearic Islands are off the coast of the autonomous Valencian Co...

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Cadiz. The oldest existing city in Europe

Cádiz is a coastal city in southwestern Spain and part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of Cádiz. According to the 2004 census, the population of Cádiz proper is 133,242, while the population of the entire urban area is estimated to be 629,054. The city is located on a peninsula protruding into the Bay of Cádiz, part of much larger Gulf of Cádiz.

Cádiz is of typical Andalusian character. The old part of Cádiz, commonly referred to as the Ol...

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Federico Garcia Lorca

Born in Fuente Vaqueros near Granada in 1898, Federico Garcia Lorca was the son of a prosperous farmer and a school teacher mother. It was from Lorca's mother that he took most influence in early life - she taught him to play music and sing - skills that would lay the foundations for the poet's sense of rhythm and timing. In 1909 the family moved into Grenada where he would later mingle in artistic circles and wield a great influence amongst his peers. He first studied law at Grenada ...

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