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Would you like a change from the Caribbean Calypso or the Hawaiian Hula?You can always try the Spanish Flamenco. With tourism numbers up in Spain in recent years, many continue to do just that.Visits to Spain increased in 2006 and 2007 over previous years and the forecast is for continued growth. What is spurring the [...]

Washington Irving was born in New York City (near present-day Wall Street) at the end of the Revolutionary War on April 3, 1783. His parents, Scottish-English immigrants, were great admirers of General George Washington, and named their son after their hero. Irving had many interests including writing, architecture and landscape design, traveling, and diplomacy. He [...]

Government. Spain is a parliamentary monarchy with a bicameral legislature. The current king, Juan Carlos I (the grandson of Alfonso XIII, who was displaced by the Second Republic) is the first monarch to reign following the Franco period. His succession (rather than that of his father, Juan de Borbón) was determined by Franco: Juan Carlos [...]

Emergence of the Nation. Early unification of Spain’s tribal groups occurred under Roman rule (circa 200 B.C.E. to circa 475 C.E.) when the Latin ancestral language was implanted, eventually giving rise to all of the Iberian languages except Basque. Other aspects of administration, military and legal organization, and sundry cultural and social processes and institutions [...]