Retiro Park

A walk in Madrid

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November 6th 2005
Place: Madrid, Spain Hemingway once described Spain as a masculine country. Its beauty is rugged and warm, enfolding you into its embrace, but only if you allow it. The brief time I spent in Madrid revealed a culture that is similar in values to my own. Somewhere a door unlocked and I let the culture run through me. Madrid essentially is an engaging, sexy city. Walking around on the first da ... read more

Europe » Spain

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more