Spain is colorful and playful, austere and refined. It is a place where medieval Moorish arches in Andalucía collide with wild Modernista spires in Cataluña, where classical royal paintings inspire flights of imagination by abstract artists, and where Celtic rock overlays flamenco beats. Three decades after the death of Franco and the country’s rebirth as a liberated and politically significant player, Spain is still riding out its cultural and economic renaissance with style and flair. Today, whether travelers are making their pilgrimage to the cathedrals of León or to the pulsing nightlife of Madrid, they are bound to meet their fair share of hippies, nuns, shepherds, and mullet-sporting youth; speakers of Catalan, Gallego, and Basque; recent immigrants and seasoned expatriates; and all those in between. Blessed with cultural vitality and enviable geographic diversity, Spain is a land for the old, the young, and the truly young at heart.
Entrance Requirements Passport . Required for citizens of all foreign countries. Citizens of EU states may also use their national identity card. Visa . Required for citizens of all non-EU ...more
Summer is high season (temporada alta) for coastal and interior regions in Spain and Portugal; winter is high season for ski resorts. In many areas, high season begins during Semana Santa (Holy Week ...more
Climate on the Iberian Peninsula varies hugely by both region and season. While Asturians mull cider to keep warm as the cold rain falls, Sevilla’s patios fill with sangria drinkers trying to stay ...more
Rule Hispania (prehistory-ad 711). Spain played host to a succession of civilizations—Basque, Celtiberian, and Greek—before the Romans came for an extended visit in the 3rd century BC. Over the next ...more
We Will Rock You. For the past 300 years, Spain has fought an uphill battle to regain control of Gibraltar, a strategic 6km territory in the south currently under British rule. Britain’s desire to ...more
Castellano (Castilian) Spanish, spoken almost everywhere, is Spain’s official language; other languages are official regionally. Català (Catalan) is spoken throughout Cataluña in the northeast and ...more
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