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El Pardo: Franco, the monarchy, and the political situation in Spain
I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I’ve been slammed with work and traveling. (Yeah, occasionally we do experience the “study” in study abroad.) I’m gonna try to get as many blog posts in as a I … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, adolfo suárez, basque, car, catalan, catalonia, cataluña, catcholicism, catholic church, caudillo, civil war, democracy, desarrollismo, development, dictatorship, el pardo, felipe, francisco franco, franco, gay marriage, goya, herrera, homestay, juan carlos, mariano rajoy, oria, país vasco, palacio, palacio de el pardo, palacio real, palaco de la zarzuela, politics, protests, rajoy, referendum, religion, salamanca, same-sex marriage, san lorenzo de el escorial, señora, spanish civil war, suárez, transition, transition to democracy, valle de los caídos, zapatero, zarzuela
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Museo de América and Madrid’s Slaughterhouse
The busy Madrid-filled week continued with an adventure with Christy on Tuesday and a paseo with Kike on Wednesday. Like most Tuesdays, Christy and I had a bit of free time that we wanted to take advantage of to explore … Continue reading
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Tagged arco de la victoria, atleti, atlético, atlético de madrid, ayuntamiento, casa de campo, chipotle, ciudad universitaria, faro, faro de moncloa, francisco franco, franco, icade, kike, la latina, legazpi, m-30, m30, manzanares, manzanares river, matadero, moncloa, mudéjar, museo de américa, neo-mudéjar, ópera, palacio de moncloa, palacio real, park, paseo, paseos por madrid, pirámides, príncipe pío, puente de segovia, puerta de la moncloa, river, royal palace, sol, tierra, tierra burrito, universidad complutense, vicente calderón, walk, walkable
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Visit to AS, a daily sports newspaper
We went on another field trip with our soccer class this past Monday. This time we went to the headquarters of AS, a Spanish daily newspaper focused completely on sports. As I’ve said before, Spain really loves their sports. The country … Continue reading
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Tagged as, el país, field trip, fútbol, marca, newspaper, prisa, real madrid, soccer, sports
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El Escorial and the Teleférico of Casa de Campo
As this was one of our last weekends in Madrid for the next month, we decided to take advantage of what the city and surrounding area had to offer, along with the great 23°C weather, with a short day trip to … Continue reading
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Tagged aquarium, buried, cable car, carlos v, casa de campo, catholic monarchs, catholicism, day trip, don juan, el escorial, felipe II, grave, grill, madrid, monastery, park, parque del oeste, parrilla, protestant reformation, pudridero, reyes católicos, saint lawrence, san lorenzo, san lorenzo de el escorial, sierra de guadarrama, teleférico, theme park, zoo
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A Week Full of Field Trips
This school week was full of field trips and experiential learning that took us outside of the classroom, including a class trip, a site visit with the program, and a paseo with Kike. After all the weekend trips we’ve been … Continue reading
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Tagged agency, ancient egypt, aswan dam, basketball, egypt, field trip, franco, fútbol, icade, impressionism, jerry maguire, joaquín sorolla, juan carlos, juan carlos I, kike, museo soralla, museum, palace, palacio real, palaco de la zarzuela, paseo, paseos por madrid, plaza de españa, royal family, royal palace, soccer, soralla, sports, sports agency, sports marketing, temple, temple of debod, unesco, you first sports
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Lisbon and the Ancient Roman City of Mérida
If we thought we had spent a lot of time traveling by bus on our trip through southern Spain, we were definitely in for a surprise. It took us around four hours to get from our previous stop, Sevilla, to … Continue reading
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Tagged amphitheater, bacalao, beach, belém, belem tower, bridge, calamari, caldereta, cascaes, cascais, cathedral, christ the king, cod, dessert, discoverer, discoveries, earthquake, eu, european union, explorer, explorers, extremadura, fado, flan, food, food and circuses, hieronymites, hispania, iberian peninsula, jerónimos, lamb, lisboa, lisbon, lisbon cathedral, marquis of pombal, marquis of pombal square, melancholy, mérida, metro, migas, monastery, monsteiro dos jerónimos, monument, monument to the discoveries, music, nostalgia, padrão dos descobrimentos, pan y circo, panem et circenses, pastéis de belém, port, portugal, portuguese, pt, recording, río, river, roman, roman theater, rome, sabe ou não sabe, saudade, seismology, sevilla, tagus, tajo, tejo, toledo, torre de belém, tower of belem, treaty of lisbon, trips, tv, tv show, vasco da gama
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Sevilla
We had lots of fun in Granada, but by this point our trip was not even halfway over yet, so we left Granada at 9:30 to make the three and a half our trek to Sevilla, the capital of the … Continue reading
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Tagged adobo, alfalfa, americas, andalucía, andalusia, architecture, archivo general de indias, arena, atlantic ocean, bell, bell tower, bullfighting, bullring, buried, cádiz, cathedral, christopher columbus, cirostóbal colón, cod, colón, colonies, columbus, cuna, food, freiduría, fried, fried fish, giralda, grave, guadalquivir, hake, harbor, heat, hot, inland, islam, la alameda, la maestranza, marathon, metropol parasol, minaret, monopoly, mudéjar, muslim, new world, nightlife, pescado frito, pescaíto frito, plaza de españa, plaza de toros, port, reales alcázares, river, sevilla, seville, shrimpe, sierpes, star wars, tower, trade, trip, trips, warm, weather
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