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Next door, a museum walks you through the site’s history and displays artifacts found during excavation. The theater even hosts performances again, bringing new life to an ancient space. 29.
While Spain is full of history and gorgeous religious sites, one of the country's most awe-inspiring cathedrals is in this ...
Spain’s centuries of “silence and oblivion,” in the stark phrase of the 2015 citizenship law, still haunt the present. Tourism at Jewish historical sites in Spain is booming, but the sites ...
Honored for their “cultural and natural heritage of outstanding value to humanity,” Spain boasts a whopping 45 UNESCO sites—the third most after Italy and China. While Barcelona, Seville ...
Just over five decades ago, the Spanish army built a cemetery with more than 5,000 graves in northern Spain. No one would ever get buried there, but the site became world famous — especially ...
HERVÁS, SPAIN — A gray-bearded shopkeeper in a white yarmulke and long robe sells menorahs, Stars of David, and Kabbalist medallions. Outside of his shop, the maze of narrow medieval streets is ...
Ronda, Spain, is known for the Puente Nueva “New Bridge” that was built in 1793 (collapsed several years later), and a new bridge started in 1759 and was completed in 1793 (height 98 meters).
Every year, on the first Sunday in August, the replica of an 11th-century Viking longboat sails up the river Ulla to the town of Catoira in northern Spain. The boat, manned by townsfolk disguised as ...
Students in Spain soak up history, art and language Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Email Print By Jennifer Greenstein Altmann on July 21, 2008, 12:46 p.m.