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Famous places in Spain. 1. Madrid: is the capital and largest city of Spain. is located in the middle of Spain.
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Famous places in Spain 1. Madrid: is the capital and largest city of Spain. is located in the middle of Spain. was only named capital in the 16th century and struggled to live up to the reputation of other great European hubs. Nowadays - finally - Madrid rests self assured with world class museums and architecture.
Plaza de España (or "Spain Square" in English) is a large square, and popular tourist destination, located in central Madrid. It features a monument to Spanish novelist, poet and playwright Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote.
Plaza De España https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msjIy5cMINs
Do you know Don Quixote? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tWiLOOcYkE
Prado Museum is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, dating from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection, and unquestionably the best single collection of Spanish art.
Right panel Left panel: Central panel: a picture of socially engaged figures, fantastical animals, oversized fruit and hybrid stone formations torments of damnation God presenting Eve to Adam
Las Meninas is a 1656 old painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age. The word “Menina” means “Maid of Honour”, i.e. a girl who serves in a royal court. There is a lot of detail in the painting, and more has been written about it than about almost any other Western painting because it is quite complicated. For example: people do not always agree about who is looking at whom and why they are standing there. Las Meninas
More about Madrid ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3jpXvI-8v4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsSJIKOTr3E&feature=player_embedded Places to visit
Barcelona: 2nd largest city of Spain Where is Barcelona?
What do you know about Barcelona? Holy Family Cathedral ( La Sagrada Familia) by Gaudi
La SagradaFamilia, or Holy Family Church, is Antoni Gaudi's most ambitious and impressivework, and construction is still ongoing. • This enormous church, as yet unfinished, is a summary of everything that Gaudí designed before. • The ongoing construction of SagradaFamilia is paid for by tourism. When SagradaFamilia is complete, the church will have a total of 18 towers, each dedicated to a different religious figure, and each one hollow, allowing the placement of various types of bells which will sound with the choir. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3smh2bIArms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pfEQCBAP-Q&feature=player_embeddedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pfEQCBAP-Q&feature=player_embedded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm3p_cGw9dA bull fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzWWhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtA8zS3nlrchqL0ruY food fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzWWhqL0ruY running with bull