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Torre del Oro

Muslim Fortification at it's best.
If you'll give me a minute....

December 24th 2007
....I'l ex-Spain it to you....? Okay, that sucked. Shall I just talk about Spain. I will. We both wondered how a bus to Sevilla could possibly take eight hours from Lisbon. The answer is that it goes all the way to Faro, pretty well the southernmost large town in Portugal and then across to Sevilla. It's one of those funny Schengen land borders and the only way you actually realise y ... read more
Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

Spanish Flag 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
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