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Spain is a country with a long and complex history of conquest
and cultural rebirth. Today, with four official languages, an engaged
and dynamic democracy, and an artistic resurgence, Spain is one of the
most vibrant and exciting countries to visit. Travelers can choose from
seaside resorts, great cosmopolitan capitals and a journey back in time,
through successive ages of creative and intellectual splendor. [Full
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Barcelona
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Profile
Catalunya's most vibrant and cosmopolitan city, many say Barcelona is
more European than Spanish. Here you'll find a wealth of modernist architecture
and avant garde art and culture, as well as world-class opera, music and
theatre. |
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Madrid
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The capital city of Spain, Madrid is known as a global center of culture,
nightlife and learning, has 3 of the world's top preeminent museums and
claims more green space than any city in Europe. |
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Sevilla
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The largest city in the southern region of Andalucía, Sevilla is
a mix of old and new, and offers a stunning palette of sights and flavors. |
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Valencia
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Perched along the eastern coast, Valencia enjoys an abundance of sunlight,
and offers Spain's newest architectural marvel, the City of Arts and Sciences. |
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Granada
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The last great seat of Moorish power in Spain, Granada is also one
of the centers of flamenco music culture, and a prominent tourist destination
on almost any holiday. |
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Córdoba
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Once the preeminent city in Moorish Spain: educated, wealthy, populous,
refined... boasting a great university, a library with over 400,000 books,
and a legendary culture of tolerance between Christians, Muslims and Jews. |
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Toledo
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Profile
The place where true damasquinado art is fashioned by hand, a hilltop
city defined by narrow, winding streets, medieval and gothic architecture,
many works of El Greco, not to mention a breathtaking view. |
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Alicante
A Mediterranean hotspot, Alicante is seeing a resurgence in its cultural
and academic life. |
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Girona
Capital of the northernmost province within Catalunya, Girona is proudly
immersed in the catalán culture, and offers a wide range of cultural
experience, spanning thousands of years of history. |
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Figueres
Known outside of Spain as the home of surrealist painter Salvador
Dalí, Figueres offers a unique catalán experience, and an
intimate but lively city center. |
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Cadaqués
An artists' refuge, a crescent-shaped fishing village, on the Cap
de Creus Peninsula along the northern Costa Brava. |
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Sitges
A summer getaway, one of the favorite beach destinations along the
Costa Daurada south of Barcelona. |
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| Xampanyería:
A Memoir of Spain |
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Nothing
easier than getting lost in the ruins of another time.
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cobbles, the asphalt, the air were rich with sea salt. The
mountains on the northwestern edge of Barcelona invited morning
fogs to hang over the whole city, sinking only reluctantly
back to the shoreline. These fogs lifted the sediment of history,
daily, into the air, a ritual cleaning. A salty timeless savor
would, daily, override the sooty-city residue of industry.
For those intimate, empty hours, life itself opened up, became
vulnerable, reliant upon our will. We tended to attempt to
dwell among the salts. |
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matter what my intended destination (many days I would have
an insurmountable urge to pass by the Museo Picasso; other
days, it was more important to find myself at the port’s
edge, watching the world in flux), all streets, every exiting
of an art gallery, every callejón or escondrijo,
every late café luncheon, would lead me back to the
xampanyería. We would sometimes joke that all of the
Barri Gótic was a series of compartments of the spirit,
all fascinating but exhausting, all begging the loud, unclean
serenity of the crowded cava bar. |
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four p.m., possibly, definitely within the hour, one could
locate Michael or Saint Jerome or Renault, Farola or the Dutchman.
Nevertheless, it was always the outside, the persistence of
the old places, that would drive us there. It was always an
integral part of a more organismal experience, never solely,
or statically, ‘a separate peace’. [Full
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2000 Joseph Robertson
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| Oxígeno
y ciprés: junio en España |
| Camino
por el pasillo abierto que lleva hasta la puerta. Me recuerdo.
Recuerdo sin fallos el lugar y el sentido del lugar. Ver el
mismo cactus, el encanto de las plantas que llueven sobre
los muros, ver la casa, el umbral, la cara y bondad insondable
de Gloria, que siempre me cuidaba tan bien, significa una
colaboración improbable con el fluír temporal.
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| Cenamos
y hablamos de literatura, de leyenda y de la verdad. Hablamos
de ese espacio infinito que corre por entre los nudos y planicies
de la biografía a medias. |
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encuentro entre planes, entre mundos, entre variados trayectos
de un progreso incierto que se llama vida. El aire tenue
y privado está repleto de fantasmas e ideales, preferencias,
gustos, y todo lo demás que pueda trascender los
cambios cotidianos de la vida... [Texto
completo]
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©
2001 Joseph Robertson
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| MADRID
BOMBING INVESTIGATION |
5
DETAINED IN CONNECTION WITH THURSDAY'S ATTACKS
14 March 2004 |
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Spanish government has announced it arrested 5 men in connection
with evidence related to Thursday's bomb attacks in Madrid.
3 of the men are Moroccans, 2 carry Indian passports but may
be Spanish citizens of Indian origin. Thousands of protesters
gathered outside the ruling party's HQ on Saturday, to demand
answers. Suspicions turn from ETA to Al Qaeda. [Full
Story] |
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| CHANGE
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SPAIN
ELECTS ZAPATERO, VOTES OUT PARTIDO POPULAR
15 March 2004
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Only
three days after the worst terrorist incident in Spanish
history, Spain has ousted the governing PP and installed
the socialist PSOE, which had governed throughout the 1980s
and the transition to democracy. Tension over issues of
war and peace had been growing since 90%
of Spain's population opposed its government's involvement
in the Iraq war. Turnout was up 8.46% over 2000. Zapatero
pledges to combat terrorism as first priority. [Full
Story]
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| EUROPEAN
UNION |
EU
CAMPAIGNS TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
17 January 2004 |
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European Union requires a ban on the death penalty for all
members. While the EU has been a staunch proponent of human
rights, and is home to the World Criminal Court, EU officials
have announced they will intensify their global campaign against
capital punishment. Representatives of the EU are touring
Asian countries, hoping to lobby their governments for the
cessation of the practice. [For more: IHT] |
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| POETRY: Lend
Texture to Your Travels... |
| Take something with you that will enrich your sense of place, deepen
your access to the language, and urge you to express your experiences
in new ways... |
| FEDERICO
GARCÍA LORCA: Poems
& Plays |
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3
Plays: Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba
by Federico García Lorca
Lorca's
plays were among the more controversial of his writings,
dealing as they did with a traditionalist culture, steeped
in centuries of patriarchy and social imperatives. These
three are considered the central works of his career as
playwright and social critic.
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Romancero gitano
by Federico García Lorca
El Romancero fue una colección medieval de baladas líricas; el Romancero gitano de Lorca mezcla la forma tradicional de la lírica corta con los ritmos y el concepto de duende que subrayan la experiencia del flaamenco, de la cultura misteriosa de los gitanos, de la noche andaluza... |
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La casa de Bernarda Alba
by Federico García Lorca
Obra clave de Lorca, esta obra teatral trata la historia de una matriarca que domina ferozmente a sus hijas, y la tragedia resultante de la rebelión instintiva de una de ellas. Lirismo incomparable, buen trama para disolver las horas de tránsito... |
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| Whether you choose the classics, or new and innovative authors, the
rich metaphorical content of great poetry can help you distill the exotic
sensations of travel into words that will stay with you and recall the
adventure of small events once you return home... |
| POESÍAS
EN CASTELLANO... |
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Breves
penumbras:
poesías en castellano
by Joseph Roberston
Primer
libro impreso de Casavaria (the first book in print from
Casavaria Publishing). Obra de estirpe existencialista,
que explora y fondea en las preguntas esenciales del yo,
de la tensión entre lo concreto y lo subjetivo de
la experiencia humana.
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Más sobre este libro en Casavaria.com |
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Todo Es Prólogo
Carlos Alberto Trujillo
Antología poética de la obra del poeta chilote, Carlos Trujillo. Este libro ilumina el amplio y sensible terreno que describe toda la producción del poeta. Servirá para producir una tregua en la lucha cotidiana y señalar las profundidades y las virtudes de la experiencia humana. |
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