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Stay in a Castilian castle, explore the Plain of La Mancha or discover Madrid's vast store of art. Whether your appetite is for palaces or tapas bars, museums or mountain climbing, Spain is famously fabulous.
Points of Interest
Area: 194,885 square miles (equal to Nevada and Utah combined). Population: 38,000,000 (Madrid, 3,010,492; Barcelona, 1,712,350; Seville, 714,000). Languages: Spanish, Basque, Catalan and Galician.
Highlights
Madrid offers an ideal introduction to Spain. The Golden Triangle of Museums, one of Europe's greatest concentrations of art, includes the Prado; the Reina Sofia Art Center; and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.
From Madrid, you may take day trips to Toledo, home of El Greco and a stunning cathedral; Segovia, with its Roman aqueduct and Moorish Alcázar, the fortress-castle where Isabella was named queen; the medieval walled city of çvila, best visited in spring and fall; and the royal palaces of El Escorial, Aranjuez, La Granja and Riofrío.
Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, is a Mediterranean port known for its striking Modernist architecture, embodied above all in the astonishing works of Antoni Gaudí. Stroll through the Gothic Quarter with its lovely squares and antiques shops, and walk Las Ramblas, the broad promenade to the sea.(text copied from somewhere)
| Barcelona Cathedral | Barcelona Streetlight | View From Hotel | picture sixteen | picture twentyone |
| Ma at Ramblas | picture seven | picture twelve | picture seventeen | picture twentytwo |
| Eixample Building | picture eight | picture thirteen | picture eighteen | picture twentythree |
| Eixample #2 | picture nine | picture fourteen | picture nineteen | picture twentyfour |
| Eixample #3 | Gaudi Building | picture fifteen | picture twenty | A HREF="spanpyra.jpg"> Spanish Pyramid |
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