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The famous local cheese - tetillas (breasts). Supposedly, artists once sculpted a very curvy female statue for the cathedral, and were forced to make it less sexy, so locals got revenge by making their cheese look like boobs.

Hooray for Spanish Tina Fey!!!

January 5th 2010
Geo: 42.8804, -8.5463Though our bus departed Salamanca nearly 30 minutes late, we still arrived in Santiago de Compostela a few minutes ahead of schedule, surprisingly. Also a surprise was how cold and dark it was - it looked like the middle of the night, and the sun didn't start to brighten the sky until well after 9 AM. We made our way down to the Hostal Pazo de Agra - though we had asked ... read more

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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

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