As a junior majoring in Spanish at Penn State University, I had the opportunity to spend Spring Semester 1985 studying at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain.

Spain is a country of diverse landscapes, climates, peoples and cultures, forged over the centuries into a political unity. Physically separated from the rest of Europe by the Pyrenees mountain chain, Spain also found itself isolated internationally during General Francisco Franco's dictatorship (1939-75). Since Franco's death, however, and with the restoration of ... (more)