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Spanish Bullfight and Farewell Dinner
We didn’t really have much time to rest after we got back the Northern Spain trip on Wednesday night, because Thursday was another busy day. We had the farewell dinner that night and a bullfight to go to right before … Continue reading
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Tagged azahara, banderilleros, blood sport, bull, bullfight, bulls, corrida, corrida de toros, corte inglés, culture, día de los trabajadores, el corte inglés, elena, farewell dinner, fight, gifts, holiday, holidays, labor day, las ventas, maricarmen, matador, mozo de espada, paco, picadores, sport, torero, toreros, toro, toros
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Archaeological Museum, Botanical Gardens, and Reina Sofía
The week following our trip to Valencia was another one filled with field trips and a paseo to sites around Madrid, including the Archaeological Museum and Reina Sofía with Paco and the Botanical Gardens with Kike. On Tuesday, Paco took … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeological museum, art, bakery, baza, colón, croissant, dalí, dama, dama de baza, dama de elche, dessert, easter, elche, falleras, field trip, food, french toast, garden, goya, greenhouses, guernica, holy week, iberians, joan miró, kike, lady of baza, lady of elche, lent, metro, miró, modern art, museum, napolitana, pablo picasso, paco, pain au chocolat, panadería, park, paseo, picasso, plants, plaza de colón, plaza de murillo, prado, real jardín botánico, reina sofía, royal botanical gardens, salvador dalí, semana santa, serrano, torrija, valencia, weather
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The Windmills of Don Quixote and Mosque of Córdoba
We left early Thursday morning for our trip from Madrid to Andalucía, one of Spain’s largest autonomous communities, located along the southern coast of the country and dominated by its Islamic history and influence. This will be a very long trip — … Continue reading
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Tagged al-andalus, almodóvar, andalucía, andalusia, bodegas, calamari, castila-la mancha, castilla, cathedral, catholic, catholic monarchs, catholicism, cervantes, cheese, chipirones, chipirones fritos, cola cao, consuegra, córdoba, don quixote, es, film, food, granada, harry potter, iberia, iberian peninsula, islam, islamic, la mancha, la piel que habito, lisboa, lisbon, manchego, manchego cheese, mecca, mezquita, mosque, muslim, paco, pedro almodóvar, portugal, pt, religion, reyes católicos, roman, rome, salmorejo, salmorejo cordobés, sevilla, skin i live in, spain, squids, trips, vineyards, visigoth, windmills, wine
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Journalism field trip, Reina Sofía, and El Lobo de Wall Street
The last week has been pretty low-key. After staying up so late for the Super Bowl, the cold that I had been getting over came back with renewed fury and quite possibly a case of bronchitis, so I’ve been mostly … Continue reading
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Tagged abono, art, au, basque, basque country, class, dalí, elena, field trip, franco, guernica, journal, journalism, lobo de wall street, luis buñuel, mario, metro, modern art, movie, movie theater, movies, museum, netflix, news, pablo picasso, paco, país vasco, phone, picasso, reina sofía, salvador dalí, santiago bernabéu, stadium, trips, un chien adalou, un perro andaluz, v.o., v.o.s., wolf of wall street
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Madrid’s Prado Museum
The Museo del Prado is Spain’s largest art museum. It’s located right in the middle of Madrid, about a 10 minute walk to the east of Puerta del Sol and right off of Plaza de Cibeles, the night bus hub that’s also … Continue reading
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Tagged arqueological museum, art, art changes, bank of spain, christ washing the disciple's feet, class, dalí, disrobing of christ, el greco, elites, elitism, european art, goya, greco, hierarchy, kings, las meninas, monarchs, museo arueológico, museo del prado, museum, paco, patricia, picasso, plaza de cibeles, portraits, prado, puerta del sol, queens, reina sofía, retiro, royalty, royalty of spain, sol, spain seminar, spanish monarchs, thyssen-bornemisza, tintoretto, titian, velázquez
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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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