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- Vaccinations :
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- Currency :
- Euro
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- Madrid
- Languages :
- Spanish, catalan, galician, Basque, valenciano
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Weather Spain
- Seville 26°C 28°C 27°C 24°C
- Malaga 24°C 26°C 26°C 25°C
- Cordoba 25°C 28°C 27°C 27°C
- Granada 21°C 24°C 24°C 23°C
- Almeria 23°C 25°C 26°C 23°C
- Ibiza 19°C 18°C 18°C 17°C
- Majorca - Palma 21°C 21°C 20°C 19°C
- Mahon 18°C 17°C 14°C 17°C
- Tenerife 22°C 23°C 23°C 23°C
- Las Palmas 21°C 22°C 22°C 22°C
- Zaragoza 19°C 18°C 15°C 16°C
- Albacete 20°C 21°C 22°C 21°C
- Salamanque 19°C 19°C 18°C 18°C
- Hierro 22°C 22°C 22°C 22°C
- Barcelona 21°C 22°C 15°C 17°C
- Vigo 20°C 20°C 17°C 18°C
- La Coruna 19°C 18°C 16°C 17°C
- Vitoria 11°C 12°C 9°C 10°C
- Gerona 21°C 22°C 16°C 16°C
- Badajoz 24°C 27°C 27°C 26°C
- Vigo 20°C 20°C 17°C 18°C
- La Coruna 19°C 18°C 16°C 17°C
- Santiago De Compostela 19°C 18°C 15°C 17°C
- Vitoria 11°C 12°C 9°C 10°C
- Bilbao 15°C 15°C 13°C 14°C
- Madrid 20°C 21°C 21°C 20°C
- Pamplona 13°C 12°C 11°C 11°C
- Valencia 25°C 25°C 22°C 23°C
- Alicante 24°C 24°C 21°C 21°C
Spain : Discover the country's culture and traditions
Culture
Spaniards have lunch around 2:00pm and dinner after 9:00pm. Most shops will close in the afternoon for 'siesta.' Evenings are long and can last until dawn. The locals have a strong sense of partying and the streets often stay animated until late into the night. Levels of eating, drinking and partying reach new heights during a festival or fiesta, and every woman, child, man and his dog gets in the spirit! Family remains the foundation of social organisation, although modernity has challenged those values to some extent.
Literature
'Don Quixote' by Cervantès
'Blood Wedding' by Federico Garcia Lorca
?One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel García Márquez
'Castilian Plains' and 'New Songs' by Antonio Machado
Country guide
Seville and Andalusia Eyewitness Travel Guide
Andalusia Handbook: The Travel Guide (Footprint Handbooks)
Lonely Planet: Andalusia
Fodor's Seville, Granada and Andalusia
Films
'Vengo' (2000): Tony Gatlif
'Viridiana' (1961): Luis Buñuel.
'Cria Cuervos' (1976) and 'Carmen' (1983): Carlos Saura.
'Talk to her', 'All about my mother' (1999), 'Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown' (1988) and 'Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!' (1990): Pedro Almodovar.
'Mar Adentro' (2004): Alejandro Amenabar.
'El laberinto del fauno' Pan's Labyrinth (2006): Guillermo del Toro
Music
'Macaco', 'Dansa de los Nadie': young Andalusian groups who perform a variety of music and rhythms
Ella Baila Sola
Rosana Arbelo
Paco de Lucia
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