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El Prado
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El Museo del Prado (the Prado Museum) should be at the top of any traveler?s to-do list when visiting the Spanish capital of Madrid. With its extensive collection of Spanish, Italian, Dutch and German Renaissance masters, the Prado, along with the Louvre in Paris and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, is one of the three most important Renaissance museums in the world.
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Alhambra
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The Alhambra. With the Sierra Nevada Mountains as a breathtaking back drop, the Alhambra in Spain dominates the Granada skyline with its grand red towers and fortress walls. The Alhambra in Spain is the best conserved Arabian palace of its epoch. The name Alhambra means ?the red one? and refers to the color of the fortress walls. And from within the red walls of the Alhambra Spain becomes a fairytale land of powerful emirs, helpless maidens and gallant knights.
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Guggenheim Museum
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Built to house some of the 20th centurys greatest works of art, the 
Guggenheim museum in Bilbao has instead become as artistically renowned as the paintings that hang from its walls. Located in Spain's northern Basque region and designed by the architect Frank O. Gehry, the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao is built on a 32,500 square meter site in the center of city. The exterior of the building is a combination of interconnecting shapes. There is art inside the museum as well. For those who visit Spain to see modern art, the Guggenheim is a feast for the eyes. Besides work by Spanish masters (Picasso, Dali, and Miro), the museum houses post-modern American works by Rothko and De Kooning.
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Las Ramblas
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During a 50 years span, the 
La Rambla is a street in central Barcelona, popular with both tourists and locals alike. La Rambla can be considered a series of shorter streets, each differently named, hence the plural forms Las Ramblas (Spanish) and les Rambles (Catalan). La Rambla can be crowded, especially during prime time tourist season.
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The Alcazar
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The 
The Alcázar of Seville is a royal palace in Seville. Originally a Moorish fort, the Alcázar (from the Arabic "al-qasr", meaning "palace"). The Almohades were the first to build a palace, which was called Al-Muwarak, on the site of the modern day Alcázar. The palace is one of the best remaining examples of mudéjar architecture.
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Torre del Oro
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The 
The Torre del Oro (Spanish for "Gold Tower") is a dodecagonal military watchtower built in Seville, Spain during the Almohad dynasty in order to control access to Seville via the Guadalquivir river. Constructed in the first third of the 13th century, the tower served as a prison during the Middle Ages and as a secure enclosure for the protection of precious metals periodically brought by the fleet of the Indies, another possible origin for the tower's name.
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Great Mosque of Córdoba
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The 
The Mezquita (Spanish for "mosque") of Córdoba or Cordova is a Roman Catholic cathedral originally built as a mosque in the Andalusian city of Córdoba, Spain. The church that previously stood on this site was confiscated after the Muslim conquest for use as a mosque. The building is most notable for its giant arches, with over 1,000 columns of jasper, onyx, marble, and granite. These were made from pieces of the Roman temple which had occupied the site previously, as well as other destroyed Roman buildings.
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Toledo
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Toledo (Latin: Toletum) is a municipality located in central Spain, 50 mi south of Madrid. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 for its extensive cultural and monumental heritage as one of the former capitals of the Spanish Empire and place of coexistence of Christian, Jewish and Moorish cultures.
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Segovia
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Segovia is a city in Spain, the capital of the province of Segovia in Castile and Leon. It is situated north of Madrid. The old city is spectacularly situated atop a long, narrow promontory. It contains a wealth of monuments, including the cathedral, a famous ancient Roman aqueduct, the Alcázar, and various churches built in the Romanesque style including San Esteban, San Martin, and San Millan. The old city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is surrounded by walls built in the 8th century AD, probably on a Roman base, and rebuilt extensively during the 21st century. See the giant Aqueduct.
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Salamanca
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Salamanca is considered one of the most spectacular Renaissance cities in Europe. Through the centuries the sandstone buildings have gained an exquisite golden glow that has given Salamanca the nickname La Ciudad Dorada, the golden city. This golden glow is unique in Spain and is due to the "Villamayor Stone", a type of sandstone coming from a quarry situated in Villamayor, a village close to Salamanca.
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Palacio Real
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The Royal Palace of Madrid is the official residence of the King of Spain, located in Madrid. he vast palace is richly decorated by artists such as Velázquez, Tiepolo, Mengs, Gasparini, Juan de Flandes, Caravaggio, and Goya. Several royal collections of great historical importance are kept at the palace, including the Royal Armoury and weapons dating back to the 13th century, and the world's only complete Stradivarius string quintet, as well as collections of tapestry, porcelain, furniture, and other objects of great historical importance.
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Sagrada Familia
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The Temple Expiatori de la
Sagrada Família "Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family", often simply called the Sagrada Família, is a massive, privately-funded Roman Catholic church that has been under construction in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain since 1882 and is not expected to be complete until at least 2026. Considered the master-work of renowned Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926), the project's vast scale and idiosyncratic design have made it one of Barcelona's (and Spain's) top tourist attractions for many years.
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