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El Prado Museumis one of the three most important Renaissance museums in the world
Louvre in Paris and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence,
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One of only places in the world you can ski and swim in the Sea in same dayAlhambra Palace, or Red Castle, in Granada, Spain was a finalist in the campaign to select the New 7 Wonders of the World.
mid-1300s
the finest examples of Moorish architecture in world.
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Antoni Gaudí Architect 1850
Sagrada Família, Casa Milà, Casa Batlló
Parc Güell, Colònia Güell
barcelona
La sagrada familia by Antoni Gaudí
Hernán Cortés
1500 Spanish conquistador caused the fall of the Aztec empire
the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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the Puerta de Europa (’Gateway to Europe’) towers, the world’s first leaning high-rise buildings. 1996 designed by the American architects Philip Johnson. more than twice that of the ‘leaning tower of Pisa.
Cristobal Colonnavigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere.
1492Four voyages of exploration.
3 Ships: La Pinta, La Niña, y La Santa Maria
Plácido Domingo and José Carrerasfamous opera singers.
Spanish tenor