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Tag Archives: felipe
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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Granada: Spain’s Last Moorish Conquest
After spending almost all of Thursday driving through Consuegra’s windmills and visiting the mosque of Córdoba, we finally arrived in the city we’d be sleeping for the next two nights: Granada. We didn’t get there until around 8:00pm, so we … Continue reading
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Tagged al-andalus, alhambra, andalucía, aragón, architecture, carlos v, castilla, catholic, caves, el escorial, escorial, felipe, felipe el hermoso, fernando, flamenco, fortress, gitano, granada, gypsies, gypsy, isabel, islam, juana la loca, market, moors, mountain, mudéjar, muslim, muslims, navarra, open-air market, palace, paradise, pashmina, philip, philip the handsome, pomegranate, reconquista, reyes católicos, romani, sierra nevada, toledo
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