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sevilla April Fair April in sevilla
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pamplona San Fernin July Pamplona
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buñol La Tomatina Last Wed. of every August
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food Paella Spanish Tortilla
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dance El Flamenco
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madrid Central Post office
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madrid Plaza Mayor
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madrid Royal Palace 2800 rooms
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cervantes Novelist 1550 “Don Quixote De La Mancha” 2 nd most translated book in the world.
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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,
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velazques Artist 1650 Famous painting “Las Meninas”
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goya Artist 1750 3 distinct stages of art: Happy, political and dark
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greco Artist 1550 Famous painting “Toledo”
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Salvador dal í Artist 1900 Started art movement: Surrealism
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Pablo picasso Artist 1900 Started art movement: Cubism
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Abanico y castañuelas
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córdoba Mosque of Cordoba
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toledo Old capital of Spain
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segovia Alcazar castle Inspiration to Walt Disney Roman aqueduct 2000 yrs. old
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valencia
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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.
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barcelona Antoni Gaudí Architect 1850 Sagrada FamíliaSagrada Família, Casa Milà, Casa BatllóCasa Milà Casa Batlló Parc GüellParc Güell, Colònia GüellColònia Güell
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barcelona La sagrada familia by Antoni Gaudí
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Beaches in barcelona
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barcelona Parc Güell by Antoni Gaudí
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barcelona CasaBatllo by Antoni Gaudí
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bilbao 2 Guggenheim One in NY and One in Bilbao
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Hernán Cortés 1500 Spanish conquistador caused the fall of the Aztec empire the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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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.
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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. 1492 Four voyages of exploration. 3 Ships: La Pinta, La Ni ñ a, y La Santa Maria
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Cristobal Colón Asking Queen Isabela for ships to go to the Indies. He is at el Alhambra, Granada.
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Plácido Domingo and José Carreras famous opera singers. SpanishSpanish tenortenor
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Charo famous guitarist she has shows in Las Vegas
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The Pyrenees - a range of mountains -natural border between France and Spain. -with the tiny country of Andorra sandwiched in between
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