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Terrain in Spain: Off-season Córdoba
Even when the rain drenches Spain, Córdoba offers delights.
Harmonic Spaces: Córdoba’s Mosque-Cathedral
At Córdoba’s famous Mosque-Cathedral, the blending of styles and materials reminded us how faiths could harmonize as well.
Toledo: City of Three Cultures
The hilltop city of Toledo has a long history as an imperial capital, but most impressive to us was it's melding of three disparate cultures in the…
All The Greek to Us: Toledo’s Master
We located superb paintings by El Greco across Toledo, from its principal churches to the El Greco Museum.
Light and Dark of Zaragoza’s Goya
A native son of Zaragoza, Goya could capture the light of the spirit and the dark of human failings. The works viewable within the city show that range.
Wandering from Pillar to Outpost in Zaragoza
It’s easy to busy oneself with two millennia of history in the central city, from Mary’s pillar to the Moors’ outpost. Zaragoza is also ideal for just…
Up, down, and along Bilbao
Perhaps Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum pushed Bilbao into a new era, but our visit found a city with so many old and new attractions.
San Millan’s Notes Heard ‘Round the World
The remote pair of monasteries at the World Heritage sites of Suso and Yuso draw Spaniards honoring their language’s roots and pilgrims enroute to…
Altamira’s Sistine Chapel of Cave Art
Was it worth a long trip to see just a copy of famous paintings from tens of thousands of years ago? The experience, we found, proved well worth it.
Burgos Cathedral: The Royal Treatment
Neither pilgrims to Compostela nor tourists should miss this World Heritage monument, still soaring in detail since the 13th century yet artfully…
Secular Salamanca
The sacred and the secular have always lived side by side in Salamanca. This post wanders through the secular side (university, courtly, and commercial…
Sacred Salamanca
The sacred and the secular have always lived side by side in Salamanca. This post visits the sacred, the grand churches and monastic centers.
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