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FIGUERES
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FIGUERES , a provincial town with a population of some thirty thousand, would pass almost unnoticed were it not for the Museu Dalí , installed by Salvador Dalí in a building as surreal as the exhibits within. It's a popular day-trip from Barcelona, t... |
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ARACENA
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ARACENA: has sharp, clear air, all the more noticeable after Sevilla. Capital of the western end of the sierra with 10,000 inhabitants, it's a substantial but pretty town, rambling up the side of a hill topped by the Iglesia del Castillo , a Gothic-M... |
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SANT POL DE MAR
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SANT POL DE MAR , 45km from Barcelona, is probably your best bet if you're heading for just one spot on the coast. Small, and as unspoiled as these coastal villages get, it offers rocky coves and crowd-free swimming around fifteen-minutes' walk from ... |
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SANT SADURNí D'ANOIA
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Half an hour from Barcelona, built on land watered by the River Noya, SANT SADURNÍ D'ANOIA has been an important centre of wine production since the eighteenth century. When, at the end of the nineteenth century, French vineyards suffered heavily fro... |
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ANTEQUERA
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ANTEQUERA: , on the main rail line to Granada, is an ordinary, modern town, but it does have peripheral attractions in a Baroque church, El Carmen (Mon 11.30am-2pm, Tues-Sun 10am-2pm, Sat also 4-7pm; ¬1.20), which houses one of the finest retablos in... |
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CASTELLAR DE LA FRONTERA
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The first White Town on the route proper is CASTELLAR DE LA FRONTERA , 27km north from Algeciras, a bizarre village within a thirteenth-century castle, whose population, in accord with some grandiose scheme, was moved downriver in 1971 to the "new" t... |
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MADRIT
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Madrid :became Spain's capital simply through its geographical position at the centre of Iberia. When Felipe II moved the seat of government here in 1561 his aim was to create a symbol of the unification and centralization of the country, and a capit... |
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GRANADILLA
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The bustling administrative market town of GRANADILLA acts as a focal point for the surrounding towns and villages. Off the busy main road that cuts through the workaday town centre is its quainter heart, where elegant townhouses line quiet side stre... |
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EL ROCíO
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Set on the northwestern tip of the marismas , EL ROCÍO is a tiny village of white cottages and a church stockade where perhaps the most famous pilgrimage-fair of the south takes place annually at Pentecost. This, the Romería del Rocío , is an extraor... |
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ARONA
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The pretty streets of ARONA 's tiny centre are good for a short stroll and the modest, typically Canarian, seventeenth-century Iglesia San Antonio Abad at its heart is also worth a peek, but the town is primarily of use as a good base from which to m... |
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