Spain is a feast for the senses!

More and more tourists discover that Spain offers more than sun, sea and sand. The interior exudes plenty of Spanish pride and temperament with beautiful cities and nature.

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The country has the second highest number of UNESCO World Heritage sites in the world after Italy and is number one of World Heritage Cities. Spain is viewed as an exotic country with friendly people, relaxed lifestyle and usually warm weather, especially compared to other European countries, its cuisine, exciting nightlife and world-famous folklore (flamenco, Andalusian dance) and celebrations. Some of the places worth visiting are the capital Madrid, the cultural Barcelona with his young mind, the bull run of Pamplona, and Moorish influences cities like Seville, Granada, Cordoba and the Balearic Islands and Canary Islands.

The country is diverse with very different cultures, languages, eating habits and climates. The country ranges from the rainy fishing villages in Galicia to the nightlife of Madrid, the tourist costa’s (coasts) of the Mediterranean, the Andalusian flamenco dancing and bullfighting in many parts of the country and modern Barcelona in Catalonia.

Highlight city and villages of Spain!
Valencia Seville	Barcelona Madrid	Granada Palma de Mallorca
All importantant cities of Spain!

Just for the nose and tongue, the country is a party, with delicious regional dishes and tapas. The eyes will not go hungry. The diverse nature is overwhelming to be silent. And what about the work of artists such as Velasquez, Picasso, Dali and Gaudi? The cities are diverse. In the picturesque villages you can enjoy scenes with eternal value. In short, Spain is a feast for the senses.

Like the Netherlands or Belgium, the country is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy. And joined NATO in 1982 and is a member of the EU since 1986. The euro became the currency on January 1, 1999 Spanish, replacing the peseta.

Spain is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe with 46,661,950 (2009) inhabitants and an area of 505,992 km ². The country covers roughly 80% of the Iberian Peninsula. Beyond that also includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean and the Spanish enclaves in North Africa in the country.

In the northeast it borders to France and Andorra, along the entire length of the Pyrenees to Portugal in the west and south to the British colony of Gibraltar.