sevilla April Fair April in sevilla

pamplona San Fernin July Pamplona

buñol La Tomatina Last Wed. of every August

food Paella Spanish Tortilla

dance El Flamenco

madrid Central Post office

madrid Plaza Mayor

madrid Royal Palace 2800 rooms

cervantes Novelist 1550 “Don Quixote De La Mancha” 2 nd most translated book in the world.

madrid El Prado Museum is one of the three most important Renaissance museums in the world Louvre in Paris and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence,

velazques Artist 1650 Famous painting “Las Meninas”

goya Artist distinct stages of art: Happy, political and dark

greco Artist 1550 Famous painting “Toledo”

Salvador dal í Artist 1900 Started art movement: Surrealism

Pablo picasso Artist 1900 Started art movement: Cubism

Abanico y castañuelas

córdoba Mosque of Cordoba

toledo Old capital of Spain

segovia Alcazar castle Inspiration to Walt Disney Roman aqueduct 2000 yrs. old

valencia

granada One of only places in the world you can ski and swim in the Sea in same day Alhambra 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 FamíliaSagrada Família, Casa Milà, Casa BatllóCasa Milà Casa Batlló Parc GüellParc Güell, Colònia GüellColònia Güell

barcelona La sagrada familia by Antoni Gaudí

Beaches in barcelona

barcelona Parc Güell by Antoni Gaudí

barcelona CasaBatllo by Antoni Gaudí

bilbao 2 Guggenheim One 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 designed by the American architects Philip Johnson. more than twice that of the ‘leaning tower of Pisa.

Cristobal Colon navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere Four voyages of exploration. 3 Ships: La Pinta, La Ni ñ a, 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 Carreras famous opera singers. SpanishSpanish tenortenor

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