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España
sevilla
April FairAprilin sevilla
pamplona
San FerninJulyPamplona
buñol
La TomatinaLast Wed. of every August
food
PaellaSpanish Tortilla
dance
El Flamenco
madrid
Central Post office
madrid
Plaza Mayor
madrid
Royal Palace 2800 rooms
cervantes
Novelist1550“Don Quixote De La Mancha”2nd most translated book in the world.
madrid
El Prado Museumis one of the three most important Renaissance museums in the world
Louvre in Paris and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence,
velazques
Artist1650Famous painting “Las Meninas”
goya
Artist17503 distinct stages of art:Happy, political and dark
greco
Artist1550Famous painting “Toledo”
Salvador dalí
Artist1900Started art movement:Surrealism
Pablo picasso
Artist1900Started art movement:Cubism
Abanico y castañuelas
córdoba
Mosque of Cordoba
toledo
Old capital of Spain
segovia
Alcazar castleInspiration to Walt Disney
Roman aqueduct2000 yrs. old
valencia
granadagranada
One of only places in the world you can ski and swim in the Sea in same dayAlhambra Palace, or Red Castle, in Granada, Spain was a finalist in the campaign to select the New 7 Wonders of the World.
mid-1300s
the finest examples of Moorish architecture in world.
barcelona
Antoni Gaudí Architect 1850
Sagrada Família, Casa Milà, Casa Batlló
Parc Güell, Colònia Güell
barcelona
La sagrada familia by Antoni Gaudí
Beaches in barcelona
barcelona
Parc Güell by Antoni Gaudí
barcelona
CasaBatlloby Antoni Gaudí
bilbao
2 GuggenheimOne in NY and One in Bilbao
Hernán Cortés
1500 Spanish conquistador caused the fall of the Aztec empire
the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
madrid
the Puerta de Europa (’Gateway to Europe’) towers, the world’s first leaning high-rise buildings. 1996 designed by the American architects Philip Johnson. more than twice that of the ‘leaning tower of Pisa.
Cristobal Colonnavigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere.
1492Four voyages of exploration.
3 Ships: La Pinta, La Niña, y La Santa Maria
Cristobal Colón
Asking Queen Isabela for ships to go to the Indies .He is at el Alhambra, Granada.
Plácido Domingo and José Carrerasfamous opera singers.
Spanish tenor
Charo famous guitarist
she has shows in Las Vegas
The Pyrenees - a range of mountains -natural border between France and Spain.
-with the tiny country of Andorra sandwiched in between