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Featured Country: Spain
Spain is the cultural crossroads of Europe. It is where Romans, Jews and Moors melted into the landscape. It is where Christianity and Islam collided and fused. Here, Hemingway ran with the bulls and penned The Sun Also Rises, while Picasso jarred the sensibilities of the world with his Guernica, and Salvador Dali blew the minds of the artistic lot with his bizarre installations. Here, Cervantes' hapless hero Don Quixote attacked the windmills on the rounded hills of Toledo. Here is the land of the matador and the toro, of flamenco and full-throated cheers of "Ole!" and of tapas and robust wines. Here is a land of "a complex people living in a thousand places at once."
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Bilbao, Spain
Bilbao, Bilbo in Basque, is the tenth largest city in Spain. It is a relatively young city by Spanish standards, established in only 1300. Still, it is a major shipping port, an economic hub, and, most importantly, a city that is reinventing...
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Madrid, Spain
Madrid is the most Spanish of Spain's cities, and one of the great capitals of the world. Politically, culturally and geographically, it is the heart of Spain. It is a city of both tradition and modernity, unmistakably Castilian but with the...
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Sevilla, Spain
Sevilla, Seville in English, is the leading lady in a land of swooning gentlemen. It is a city of culture, a city of artists and musicians, a city of flamenco and tapas, a city with a deep history. It is a delectable mix of Jewish,...
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Cádiz, Spain
Cádiz dates from 1104 BC, which makes it not only the oldest city in Spain but the most ancient city still standing in all of southwestern Europe. This is not a rich city by any means, but one with historicity and antiquities, piquant foods and...
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Málaga, Spain
Málaga is a city of both leisure and culture. It is the capital of Costa del Sol, Spain's most famous coast, and thus a veritable tourist draw with gorgeous beaches bathed in sunshine much of the year. It is also a supremely historic city,...
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Ronda, Spain
Ronda is a city that evokes romantic sentimentality. And for a reason. It enjoys one of the most spectacular settings of any city in Spain. It sits in the middle of a serrania – a mountainous area – creeping up to the very...
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Granada, Spain
Granada, "Grana" to the locals, is a city of 300,000 inhabitants. It is both the capital and cultural hub of the province of Andalucía, situated in the fertile, flat plains of Vega at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
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Mallorca, Spain
Mallorca, also spelled Majorca, is all about olives, almonds and tourists, though not in that order. It is actually Europe's great vacation getaway. For more than 50 years, beginning in the 1950s, Europeans have flocked to this island...
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Tenerife, Spain
Tenerife is an over-the-top island destination – heady, fast-paced, entertainment-saturated. It has massive appeal, especially to European travelers, with tourists outnumbering islanders by a ratio of 5 to 1. It has everything.
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Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona is Spain's most Euro-centric city, and its second largest, after Madrid. It has all the trappings of a thoroughly European metropolis, and is both a premier gateway to the continent and a top tourist draw, right up there with Paris,...
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