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Spain (es'paɲa), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The Spanish mainland is bordered almost entirely by the Mediterranean Sea to the south and east except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay to the north; and by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal to the west. Spanish territory also includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands off the African coast, and two autonomous cities in North Africa that border Morocco. With an area of 504,030 km², Spain is the second largest country in Western Europe (behind France).
Spain is a constitutional monarchy organised as a parliamentary democracy, and has been a member of the European Union since 1986. It is a developed country with the ninth largest economy in the world and fifth largest in the EU, based on nominal GDP. (...) more....

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Car: The two main routes lead to Paris-Bordeaux to northern Spain and Madrid and Lyon-Nimes on the Mediterranean Sea and on to southern Spain. The motorways in France are toll roads in Spain must be made between toll roads (autovías) and toll motorways (Motorways) distinguished. Train: Rail Travel to Spain is mostly on the French hub of Paris or Geneva and Lyon. Within Spain, the super-fast guaranteed Ave good connections (from Madrid to Seville is less than three hours), otherwise you have to reckon with sometimes lengthy indirect services. Bus: fixed schedules to keep the European coaches, a website (www.deutsche-touring.com) used by many cities Germany, Austria and Switzerland from controlling various Spanish destinations. However, the journey is very time consuming. Plane: Since the rise of budget airlines can look forward to Spain on holiday best rates and more connections. A dense network in Spain operated Air Berlin (www.airberlin.com), is an Austrian partner Niki. Other budget airlines that are triggering Spain, including Ryanair, Easyjet and German Wings.

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Passport required. Visa not required for tourist or business stays up to 90 days. (**90-day period begins when entering Schengen countries.) U.S. medical report, including AIDS test, required for residency/student/work permits. For additional information, check with the Embassy of Spain, 2375 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20037 (202/452-0100 and 728-2330) or nearest Consulate General in CA (415/922-2995 and 213/938-0158), FL (305/446-5511), IL (312/782-4588), LA (504/525-4951), MA (617/536-2506), NY (212/355-4080), PR (809/758-6090), or TX (713/783-6200). Internet: www.spainemb.org. Mention tripwolf when you contact American Passport following the link below to ensure eligibility for special rates and services.

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Spaniards are genuine benefit people who are eating and drinking do not understand as a sober and modest does not like food with less demanding fare. At least as important as the physical well-being is the chat between. With passion we settled on extensive tables, which can be a meal in the restaurant certainly take two to three hours. It got it with a special holiday tradition of hospitality to do that requires a kind of internal time shift. Since the Spanish rhythm is designed to the rear, one begins relatively late in the day with a modest breakfast (desayuno) to 8 clock. Around noon, beats from around 12/12.30 Clock, in the bars, the first hour of great tapas, appetizers of any kind is with a glass of red wine (vino tinto), a dry sherry (fino) or a draft beer (caña) one to the joys of cabaret and gourmet attunes to lunch. Lunch and dinner is the classic sequence of three-course meal: starter (primer plato or entrante or Entremés), main course (segundo plato plato or principal) and dessert (postre). Desserts are classic caramel custard (flan), rice pudding (arroz con leche), or the creamy custard natillas. The year will end with you like a brandy and a coffee, taking inspiration for the latter at a coffee (café solo), perhaps with a dash of milk (cortado) or liquor (Carajillo), is limited. The most famous grape brandy is a native of Galicia orujo. A typical Spanish soft drink is horchata, a kind of almond milk. In Spain, an evening-usually more expensive than a lunch. Budget travelers are well advised to order a lunchtime set menu (menú del día), so do as many Spanish workers and employees during their long lunch break. Such menu costs around 10 euros (on the land sometimes less) and offers very good value for money. In most cases you can choose among several and main dishes and desserts are included in the price of bread, water and wine. Water usually comes from the line and is drinkable, but heavily chlorinated. If in doubt Cautious also order a bottled water (agua mineral), sin either carbonated (con gas) or without (gas). When wine, one should not expect a selection of quality wines at a daily menu, but rather a table wine (vino de mesa).

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The poems of Garcia Lorca, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia, The Spanish Civil War

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Typically Mediterranean, in Spain, stated that there is approaching. Armadas of mopeds to rattle through the streets, in pubs, the television boom, the sound waves slosh from arcades, plazas quake palaver with a happy, open-air bump concerts begin just before midnight - and at the same time, the garbage trucks through the old towns. Among the locals that hardly anyone bothers. If you are looking as foreign peace, with particular care should select his hotel room. Rule of thumb: near the top and the back. Rules are one thing, their enforcement is another. Who's going green, or as a pedestrian at the crosswalk, should satisfy themselves that there really is no vehicle or that the drivers are willing to stop. Spanish tax bracket, especially taxi and bus drivers show is irreverent and often care little about zebra stripes or red lights. Always be on guard! In larger cities, sitting in front of church doors are often poor figures, street musicians look pitiful - but this is often just for show. After "service concludes," it takes out the phone and sits down in the nearby parked car. On menus in restaurants and hotels Preisaushängen is often quite small to read "IVA no incluido." Will read: IVA, the abbreviation of the Spanish VAT is not included here. This often happens in Spain. In restaurants and hotels paid for an additional seven percent IVA, otherwise 16 percent. Occasionally, however, VAT is included, then it is called "IVA incluido." If you are unsure, ask around before. Instead of a rather formal handshake greeting each other in Spain, a man and woman or woman and woman with two Wangenküssen, once right, then left. Here is the rule: just mitküssen! Moreover, it is customary in Spain, at least among their peers, often first-name now, so maybe instead of tú known from textbooks Usted. ( "You"). This casual country's morals, you should not ignore.

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Depending on the region more holidays to come. If a holiday falls on a Sunday is usually the Monday holiday, it falls on Tuesday or Thursday, we often make a "bridge" (puente) to and from the weekend. 1 Jan: Año Nuevo, 6th Jan: Día de los Reyes Magos, March / April: Viernes Santo; 1st May: Fiesta del Trabajo; 15th Aug: Asunción de la Virgen, 12th December: Día de la Hispanidad, 1st November: Todos los Santos, 6th Dec: Día de la Constitución; 8th Dec: Inmaculada Concepción; 25th Dec: Navidad, Festivals & Events: Reyes Magos: on 5 January, the eve of Three Kings Day, many colorful parades. The Semana Santa, Holy Week, takes a large chunk of the festival calendar. On numerous processions, members of lay brotherhoods (Cofradías) in ghostly elevators are on the road and call to mind the passion story. Top hoods and tunics to conceal their identity, some barefoot and carry common constructions with tons statues (pasos) through the streets. In Seville, Malaga, Granada, Cuenca, Valladolid and León you experience the Holy Week especially poignant. In addition, drum parade in the Aragonese Calanda and passion of Andalusian Riogordo. July: Huge city festival with concerts and fireworks in Santiago de Compostela, around the anniversary of St. James (July 25). Sept: 20 To Wine Festival in Logroño (La Rioja).

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In Spain, the European Health Insurance Card EHIC. Who wants to be sure, also includes a travel health insurance. Let yourself for reimbursement by the attending physician statement (for drugs) detail that break down!

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