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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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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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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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Paseo #2: Authentic Flamenco Performance
Unlike the typical Paseos por Madrid which take place during the day on Fridays, this week’s class took place at 9:30 on Wednesday night and didn’t finish until 11:30. Being out so late (though, honestly, midnight is not late in Spain) … Continue reading
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Tagged andalucía, andalusia, brazil, culture, dance, duende, duendes, flamenco, guitar, gypsies, gypsy, mudéjar, music, paseo, paseos por madrid, performance, phrygian scale, romani, samba, show, singing, song
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Toledo and Segovia
One of the benefits of studying abroad in Madrid at the same time as the students doing American University’s Iberian Experience programs is that the ICADE students have the opportunity to attend the trips around Spain and Portugal that the others go … Continue reading
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Tagged alcázar, aqueduct, architecture, art, castilla y león, castilla-la mancha, castilla-león, castle, catcholic monarchs, catcholics, cathedral, christian, christianity, church, cochinillo, coexistence, culture, day trips, disney, el greco, engineering, fernando, harry potter, history, hogwarts, isabel, islam, jewish, judiaism, medieval, melting pot, monastery, moors, mosque, mountains, mudéjar, muslim, paco, patriarchy, religion, roman, rome, san antón, santo tomé, segovia, sierra de guadarrama, spanish language, suckling pig, synagogue, toledo, trip, visigoth
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