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Spain - A Land of Contrasts

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June 28th 2012
So I went to a bullfight. It´s not something that I´ve ever really been attracted to (certainly not in the Ernest Hemingway way...). But it was fiesta in Burgos and it was there! So along I trotted with Henrik from Sweden and we watched three bulls killed before we´d had enough. Then we went and had hamburgers... Bullfights are always held up as the quintessentially Spanish thing - that which ... read more

Europe » Spain » Castile & León » Fromista

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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