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The Newlyweds
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Barcelona: Las Ramblas This mile-long promenade is the heart and soul of Barcelona. The name means...
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La Boqueria The best open market in Spain. It's where Barcelonans gather to eat their...
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Casa Mila Antonio Gaudi's famous roof has been renamed La Pedrera, but I'm a...
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A Doorframe Within a Doorframe.
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The Front Window at Casa Battlo Another Gaudi creation. He's been called the father of modern...
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Azulejos The blue tiles inside Casa Battlo become darker as they go higher. To an...
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Azulejos Through Freaky Glass
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The Steep, Steep Road to Park Guell And Jen did it in tough shoes, too.
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Park Guell Another Gaudi creation: a playground for the rich that was never quite finished.
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Tiled Benches Gaudi laid these with the help of his assistant. They're a local landmark.
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Breaking the Fourth Wall Everybody looks prettier when framed by a Gaudi creation.
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Jen's Favorite Door
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Coffeeshop in Barcelona
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The Ultimate Gaudi: La Sagrada Familia A work in progress for almost a hundred years (notice the crane), it's...
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God Is In The Details
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Statuary Some Japanese sculptor added these to La Sagrada Familia a few years...
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Escuela de Caracoles We paid an extra fee to be lifted to the top of the cathedral, gaze...
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On Top of La Sagrada Familia That's the excitement of running across bridges and parapets a...
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Barcelona Stadium Ground zero for the 1992 Olympics.
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Barcelona Harbor Today, it's industrial. Five hundred years ago, it was the site of...
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Squid-Ink Paella It tasted way better than it sounds.
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The Rental Car For forty-eight hours, Jen courageously drove a stick shift through three...
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On the Way to Valencia The famous orange groves. Valencia oranges are as delicious as their...
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Valencia: Festival De Las Fallas Each March, the city of Valencia builds enormous symbolic sculptures...
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Your Guess Is As Good As Mine
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What is a "Falla"? A fraternity whose only job is the yearly construction (and...
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A Gluten-Free Cone A special treat for Jen: her first ice-cream cone in two years. Behind...
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Toro The huge bull is actually a billboard for an Andalusian sherry.
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Granada Our favorite city in Spain.
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The Albaicin This is a city within a city: a maze of ancient Moorish alleyways that...
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A Romantic Lunch Too bad Jason spoiled it by telling the waiter, "Una cama para dos, por...
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"Live, but Live Free" Truer words have never been tagged.
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Puro Espana
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Just Like Home In the far left of the background, you can see the snows of the Sierra...
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The Alhambra From Below
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The Alhambra From Above The crown jewel of Spanish tourist attractions. From this wall in 1492, the...
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The Gardens of the Generalife A desert people, the Moors treasured running water in their gardens.
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Patterns Islamic law forbade (and still does) images of the prophet Muhammed....
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Needed: Queer Eye For the Moorish Guy In the Nazrid Palace, the tiles and the detailed relief were a wee bit...
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The Birth of the Americas This is where 800 years of Moorish kings received their visitors. The...
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The Alcazar at the Alhambra
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Sunset Behind The Alhambra
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Frit-Frou!
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Sevilla Prepares For Semana Santa The main street alongside the cathedral is blocked off for the Holy Week...
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The Easter Procession Begins These penitents are dressed in the centuries-old Semana Santa...
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Los Ojos
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His Cross To Bear
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Hardcore Catholic He probably walked fifteen miles like this.
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The Float Arrives Near the end of each procession comes an elaborate float depicting a...
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Life-Sized Statue of Christ on Float
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The Procession Enters The Cathedral Every day during Holy Week there are twenty or thirty Easter...
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The Cathedral of Sevilla The biggest Gothic cathedral in the world. Unexpected and delightful.
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The Tomb of Christopher Columbus He was shipped here in 1900; before that, his remains were in Cuba. In fact,...
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Holy Relics Those are the actual remains of a saint.
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The Plaza de Toros Sevilla's main bullring. Neither Jason nor Jen had any desire to watch a...
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Orange Blossoms Smelled like home.
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Sapphire Blue This staircase struck us as subtly gorgeous. In fact, we've sworn...
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Jen Gets Her Paella She'd been talking about this for MONTHS. Note the massive sangria in the...
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A Nighttime Procession
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A Face More Beautiful Than The Tiles
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A Classic Tapas Bar in Sevilla The signature upside-down hams can hang for years. The little white...
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Duende That's Spanish for "soul". This performer had it in spades. The...
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Calle Garcia de Vinuesa As seen from our hotel room balcony.
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Cordoba A thousand years ago, this city was the epicenter of Moorish (and European)...
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The Mezquita: The Christian Bell Tower There've been many rulers: first, the Christian Visigoths; second, the...
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Inside The Mezquita: The Islamic Arches When the Christians won the city in the 1300s, they stupidly constructed a...
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Hungry Girl I know that ferocious look. It says, "My two brothers stole food off my...
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Garden of Earthly Delights The patio of a private Moorish home built in the year 900.
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Madrid: Palacio Real The home of the royals. It was a spectacular tour -- especially the...
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Madrid's Atocha Station Waiting for trains, we frittered away several hours playing cards beneath its...
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Outside the Prado
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Museo del Jamon This isn't a museum; it's actually a famous tapas bar and deli. We...
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Santiago de Compostela: Cockleshells Rain, green hills, Gaelic flutes ... and the end of the famous Christian...
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The Parador de Santiago de Compostela Supposedly the oldest hotel in the world. It was founded as pilgrim's...
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The Best Hotel Room We've Ever Enjoyed Travellers have been lodged here for 500 years. Jen stayed on the lookout for...
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The Parador Courtyard Imagine hundreds of dirty, bedraggled medieval pilgrims milling around this...
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The Crypt When pilgrims died at the hotel -- which was often -- the cadavers...
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Queso de Tetilla Legend has it that the Galician people were upset when a puritanical cardinal...
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The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela The centerpiece of the city for over a thousand years. The third biggest...
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The Tomb of Saint James Supposedly. An excited eighth-century monk dug up a skeleton and...
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Modern Pilgrims Traditionally they wore a staff, a gourd, a broad-brimmed hat with...
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A Lovely Rainy Day Santiago de Compostela is the wettest city in Europe: 75 inches of rain per...
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"Our Kitchen is Open All Day" A novelty in Spain.
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The Church That's Falling Down That's not just your eyes: the pillars really are crooked....
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Toledo: The Tagus The river that protected Toledo's inhabitants from invaders for...
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The Last Day Shortly after this picture was taken, we embarked on a 40-hour trip...
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