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Even Olympus Kameras (Olympus camera), computers, cars, construction materials can be found in the web and can be ordered online. This is one on the impressive part of our era today. Bigger market to shop and more information will feed. 

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The famous Costa Blanca and the Costa del Sol are so beautiful beaches according to the tourist who already experience the place. But hey, there are lots of nice beaches in Spain!

Here the Top 10 guides:

1. La Concha, San Sebastian – Is said to be the one of the best city is Europe and in Spain alone. It is situated in northeast corner of Spain.
2. Playa del Silencio, Asturias – In general to be the best beach in Northern Spain.
3. La Barrosa, Chiclana de la Frontera, Cádiz – it is situated in southwestern Spain, in the province of Cadiz.
4. Ses Illetes, Formentera, Balaeric Islands – it is beating Ibiza, Mallorca and Menorca)
5. Beaches of Sitges, Catalonia near Barcelona – a party town with numerous nice beaches.
6. Playa de los Peligros and Playa de la Magdalena, Santander  - Santander is the capital of the little-explored region of Cantabria, located between Asturias and the Basque Country.
7. Nerja, Costa del Sol, Andalusia – This is really a great place, a famous one.
8. Tarifa, Andalusia - the windsurfing scene, whale watching and a fun nightlife are all un here.
9. Gandia, Costa Brava - The Costa Brava is made up by a number of small towns with pleasant beaches.
10. Playa de Las Catedrales, Galicia - The best beach in Galicia. The best beach in Galicia. The rock formations caused by the sea are truly exceptional

This sites is perfect to those beach lovers. But travel is not perfect if it is not end with beach.

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This is one of the tourist favorites in the city. Thousands of tourists from other countries loves the museum. The collections of paintings is a reflection of Bilbao peoples culture,  the impressive work of arts from . The growth of the museum is dependent from private institutions, from private individuals and the museum own acquisitions to shape the essential profile of the collections.
 

Visiting Bilbao Museum in one of the tourist activity of the place. Tourist park in Bilbao- the Doña Casilda Ituzzar Park is where most tourist presence because of its locations, near from the museum, bars, restaurant, hotel in Bilbao and other tourist attractions.

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Gran Hotel Domine Bilbao

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Tourism in this country is one of the main core of the Andorra economy, accounts roughly 80% of GDP. Estimated 9 million tourists visits annually, attracted by Andorra’s duty free status and by its summer and winter resorts. Whole year tourist activity is also seen in this place. The Bars, Hotel Centro Andorra, resorts, Parks, museums, historical landmarks are in the place with its highest form.

 The adjoining France and Spain economy makes Andorra more advantage because of the opened up and the broader provisions of goods and lower tariff.

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Lets talk about Tapas, the history and the people who love Tapas. I personally tried one of the variety, it is really an appetizer. Tapas is the name of a wide variety of appetizer in Spanish cuisines. It may be served cold (such as mixed olives and cheese) or warm (such as puntillitas, which are buttered, fried baby squid). The serving of tapas os thought to encourage conversation because people are not so focused upon eating the entire meal that is set before them. In some other countries it is customary to stand and move about while eating tapas (interesting ehh)

In Spain, dinner is usually served between 9:00 to 10:00 pm, leaving significant time between work and dinner. Because of this time, they often go bar hopping and eat tapas I the time between finishing work and having dinner. Another common time for tapas is the weekend days around noon as a means of socializing before lunch proper at home.

It is very common bars or small restaurant to have 8 to 12 different kind of tapas in warming trays with glass partitioned covering the food. Strong flavored with garlic, chilies or paprika, cumin, salt, pepper, saffron and sometimes in plentiful amounts of olive oil.

Common dishes

• Aceitunas
• Olives
• Albóndigas
• Meatballs
• Allioli
• Means "Garlic and oil" in Catalan. The classic ingredients are only garlic, oil and salt, but the common form of it includes Mayonnaise and garlic. A very strong garlic paste. Served on bread or with potatoes, fish, meat or grilled vegetables.
• Bacalao
• Salted cod loin served very thinly usually served with bread and tomatoes
• Boquerones
• White anchovies served in vinegar (boquerones en vinagre) or deep fried.
• Calamares or rabas
• Rings of battered squid.
• Carne mechada
• Slow-cooked, tender beef.[1]
• Chopitos
• Battered and fried tiny squid. Also known as puntillitas.
• Cojonuda. (Superb female)
• A kind of "pincho". It consists of a slice of Spanish morcilla with a fried quail egg over a slice of bread. It is very common in Burgos.
• Cojonudo. (Superb male)
• A kind of "pincho". It consists of a slice of Spanish chorizo with a fried quail egg over a slice of bread.
• Chorizo al vino
• Chorizo sausage slowly cooked in wine.
• Chorizo a la sidra
• Chorizo sausage slowly cooked in cider.
• Croquetas
• A common sight on bar counters and in homes across Spain, served as a tapa, light lunch, or a dinner along with a salad.
• Empanadas or empanadillas
• Small or large turnovers filled with meats and vegetables.[3]
• Ensaladilla rusa
• Mixed boiled vegetables with tuna, olives and mayonnaise.
• Gambas
• Prawns sauteed in salsa negra (peppercorn sauce), al ajillo (with garlic), or pil-pil (with chopped chili peppers).
• Pimientos de Padrón
• Small green peppers from Padrón (a municipality in the province of A Coruña in the region of Galicia) that are fried in olive oil. Most are very mild, but a few in each batch are quite spicy.
• Pincho moruno
• A spicy kebab-like stick, made of pork or chicken. Its name means 'Moorish Stick'.
• Patatas bravas
• Fried potato dices (sometimes part-boiled and then fried, or simply boiled) served with salsa brava, a spicy tomato sauce. Alioli is often served with it too.
• Puntillitas
• Battered and fried tiny squid. Also known as chopitos.
• Queso con anchoas
• Castilla or Manchego cured cheese with anchovies on top.
• Rajo
• Pork seasoned with garlic and parsley. A variety with added paprika is called Zorza.
• Solomillo a la castellana
• Fried pork scallops, served with an onion and/or Cabrales cheese sauce
• Solomillo al whisky, or al güisqui
• Fried pork scallops, marinated using whisky, brandy or white wine and olive oil.
• Tortilla de patatas, also known as Tortilla española
• A type of omelette containing fried chunks of potatoes and sometimes onion. A variety containing vegetables and chorizo (similar to frittata) is known as Tortilla paisana.
• Tortillitas de camarones
• Battered-prawn fritters.
• Stuffed Mussels (Tigres)
• In Navarre, these stuffed mussels are called tigres ("tigers") because of their fieriness.

Most of the traveler who visited Spain can’t miss to try different Tapas. It is everywhere in the county and every city and places have their own specialty of Tapas. It is widely common food that serves almost all restaurants and hotels.

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Hoteles San Sebastian

Gran Hotel Domine Bilbao

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Tourism industry of the place with the private sector makes the place more attractive. Hotel services, tourist activities, beaches, good roads and transportation between towns are developing to serve the locals and the tourist for everyday activities.

 
Here are facts about tourist reason for coming Andalusia

• Climate 26%
• Beach 15%
• Cultural 17%
• Monument 11%
• Visit family 8%
• Price 5%
• Golf 3%
• Ski 1%

 
Tourist attraction of Andalusia

• Mezquita
• Doñana National Park
• Ronda
• Alhambra Tour
• Mijas
• Sierra de Aracena
• Granada – Historical
• Manquita
• Plaza de Los Naranjos

The Private sectors in tourism makes their own initiative to make the place more attractive. Offers and deals such as cheap car hire, cheap apartment, affordable plain tickets, cheap supermarket in Andalusia and other cheap offers are usually heard in the place or any other Spain travel sites.

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Some years, in June is still cool and rainy, like April and May which, together with August, September, October and November, are the wettest months of the year. The driest are July, February, March and June. So, on average, rainy seasons are spring and autumn, and the dry ones are winter and summer.

In general the Barcelona climate is the great factor of the growing tourism of the city. The parks, beaches and other tourist spot of the place are always have tourist visits whole year. Specially during dry season hotel bookings Barcelona some are full and almost. The influence of the weather is one of the factor of the fast growing tourism industry of  Barcelona.

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Architectures of the place are marks from the past that preserved by Valencia people. Just like the ancient winding of streets of Barrio del Carmen contains buildings dating to Roman and Arabic times. The cathedral built between 13th to 15 century that contains the elements of baroque and Romanesque architecture. Beside the Cathedral is the Gothic Basillica of the Virgin ( Basilica De La Virgen De Los Desamparados)  The 15th century Serrano  and Quart tower are part of what was once the hall surrounding the city.  The late Gothic silk exchange (La Lonja de la Seda) recognized by UNESCO  as World Heritage site.

The History and the development of Valencia is still continue as well as architecture that reflect the way of life of Valencia. Valencia tourism is cultural and historical oriented, a favorite place of cultural and history traveler.

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Park main features 

Close to the entrance of the park is the Estanque del Retiro,a large artificial pond. Next is the monument to King Alfonso XII.

The Rosaleda Garden, roses of all assortments and among the many rose bushes stands the fountain of the falling angel, erected in 1922. Main sculpture is the “El Angel Caido” inspired by a passage from John Milton’s Paradise lost.

This wide park is consisting of different of impressive cultural and traditional symbol of Madrid. This interesting park really Madrid most tourist visited, a landmark that summarized Madrid

The increasing number of tourist arrival every year makes the place more established as tourist zone. Hotel Centro Madrid, restaurant, and bars, car hires, tourist activities are just in accessible distance.

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Park main features 

Close to the entrance of the park is the Estanque del Retiro,a large artificial pond. Next is the monument to King Alfonso XII.

The Rosaleda Garden, roses of all assortments and among the many rose bushes stands the fountain of the falling angel, erected in 1922. Main sculpture is the “El Angel Caido” inspired by a passage from John Milton’s Paradise lost.

This wide park is consisting of different of impressive cultural and traditional symbol of Madrid. This interesting park really Madrid most tourist visited, a landmark that summarized Madrid

The increasing number of tourist arrival every year makes the place more established as tourist zone. Hotel Centro Madrid, restaurant, and bars, car hires, tourist activities are just in accessible distance.

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Hotel bookings Madrid

Hotel 4 estrellas Madrid

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Aside from the nice tourist atmosphere of Madrid, the place is also famous in Sports. Soccer is Spain’s number one spectator sports. Approximately 300,000 fans watch the Primera Division (First Division) during the season between September and May. Most half of the ticket sold is from the tourist from other country. The famous Real Madrid, a stadium that accommodates over 90,000 spectators, lifted the European cup on seven occasions. The Real players are celebrities throughout Spain and one Real member who has international notoriety is David Beckham.

With the wealth of Sporting history of the city, indeed gives an opportunity to see some of the best sports event in European as well as world sports superstar.

The tourism activity of Madrid is fast growing. Tourism is one of the industries that have a vital role in Madrid economy. The joint effort of the government and the private sector make the place more attractive and competitive as world tourist destinations.

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Tourist, artist, directors, celebrities and political icons are gathering here to witness the festival. This year, the number of spectators reaches 117,654 compared to 176,525 last years. 99,236 tickets were sold compared to the 98,702 tickets sold last year. This activity gives the city more attractive to the tourist. 
 

Millions of tourist every year loves to witness the activity of the place and experience the nature of San Sebastian. Here are popular celebrations of the San Sebastian: 

• San Sebastian Day – every year on January 20 (the feast of San Sebastian), the feast is also known as “tamborrada”.
• Semana Grande / Aste Nagusia - ("Big/Main Week") held every year at mid August.
• Basque week- taking place at the beginning of September features events related to Basque culture

The tourism in this place is well developing for the numbers of festival and the millions of visits every year. Hotel San Sebastian is increasing their stars to be more competitive and efficient in serving the local and the tourist. Tourism services such as cruise travel, holiday shopping’s, Car hire, and apartment for rent; restaurants are the services make the city more comfortable to the tourist. 

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Here’s some of the tourist attraction of the place

• Cathedral of San Salvador is one of the tourist attraction and pride of Oviedo. This cathedral existence is from 1388.
• Cámara Santa de Oviedo, dating from 802. it is located within the cathedral and it is declared UNESCO World heritage site.
• Town hall (Casa Consistorial) Dates from 1662
• Archaeological Museum of Asturias
• Diocesan Museum
• Museum of the Militar Technology and Industry 

Most important and interesting part of the place is the history of the place. The struggles of how the place become Oviedo, the construction of important landmark of the place and its history.

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Hotel Silken Oviedo

Hotel Bookings Barcelona

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The exhibition of the museum itself change often, it is frequently hosts thematic exhibition from other countries and other culture.  The permanent collections of the museums are 20th century arts – traditional paintings and sculpture are a minority compared to installations and electronic forms. One of the famous and permanent exhibit of the Guggenheim Museum is “The Matter of Time”, a series of weathering steel sculpture s designed by Richard Serra and the housed in the 430-foot Arcelor Gallery.

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Because of the opportunity the land possessed, the nature and locals contributing effort make the place one of the top tourist destinations for many years. The carnival, the beer festival and the jazz summer festival, the shopping, everything from fashion to souvenirs, recreation, leisure’s, and playground are easily found. Well, to make this short, this place is a Party. 

This little and impressive land are one of the place in Spain that contribute development of tourism of the country.  The hotels and accommodation of the place is growing and the tourist service goes more excellent because of the challenge from millions of tourist who love visiting the place.

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Ciutadella Park with 31 hectares/76. acres including the zoo. It is situated in the place of the old military citadel and which houses the parliament building, the zoo and several museums.

Park Güell with 19hectares/47.5 acres. This place is a garden complex with architectural element situated on the hill of el camel in the Gracia district of Barcelona. It was designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi.

Oreneta Castle Park with 17.2 hectares /42.5 acres

Diagonal Mar Park with 13.3 hectares/2.9 acres. It was inaugurated in 2002.

Nou Barris Central Park with 13.2 hectares/32.6 acres

Can Dragó Sports Park and Poblenou Park both 11.9 hectares/29.4 acres

Labyrinth Park with 9.10 hectares/22.5 acres

The place where millions of tourist a year loves to visit Barcelona

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Hotel 4 Estrellas Barcelona

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The tourism industry in the place is really active. Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, Zubizuri bridge, Euskalduna Palace are the few main tourist favorite spot, Mercado Antiguo Lavadero (Old Market), the Plaza Circular, the Plaza Moyua and the Plaza de Miguel de Unamuno, where you can soak up Bilbao's historic character and charm..  Just take a Bilbao map and discover all the charm of the Biscay capital. With its galleries, theatres and monuments Bilbao is the perfect destination for modern history and art lovers.

If you remember the movie “The world is not enough” a James bond film, the city of Bilbao is the place where the actions happened.

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Gran Hotel Domine Bilbao

Hotel in Bilbao

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Spain is in fact Europe’s second most mountainous country; because its position, coast and large landmass, the weather of the country is perhaps the most diverse in Europe. In general though, there are three main climates to be found across Spain: Mediterranean, continental, and maritime affected by the countries position in Mediterranean and the Atlantic.

The climate and the tourist spots in Spain is one of the big assets that the country has; the one that more income grant to Spanish economy. The two archipelagoes (the Balearic islands and the canary islands) because of the mild climate and the extensive sandy beaches have been attracting tourist from the cold weather countries as well as other tropical countries.

Here the Spanish coast that suitable for summer vacation, this is from north to south

• The Costa Brava, the Costa Daurada and the Costa del Maresme, in the autonomous community of Catalonia, very popular between tourist from inland Spain and France, including famous resorts like Salou and the city of Barcelona, that also has the largest harbour of Spain.
• The Costa del Azahar, Costa de Valencia, whose capital city is Valencia and the Costa Blanca, (one of the most developed coastal areas of Spain, extremely popular for tourists from the United Kingdom and Germany, with Benidorm as the leading summer city of Spain), all in the Valencian Community.
• The Costa Calida in Region of Murcia, Mediterranean Coasts and the Mar Menor (Lesser Sea), a inner salt lake separated to the Mediterranean by a large sandy bank.
• The Costa de Almería, the Costa Tropical, the Costa del Sol and the Costa de la Luz, all in Andalucía. Some of its summer towns are worldwide famous, like Marbella, a tourist destination of tourist with big purchasing power. Málaga is also one of the largest harbours in Spain.

 The Above data is from WIKI 

Aside from the climate, the country is also a popular destination of cultural tourism and business tourism. The Tourism industry in the country is keep and still growing in accommodating the visitors from other places. The beaches are well developed and it well develops more in the years coming as well as the Hotels that serve as shelter to the visitor’s got more developed and wider than before. One example here is the lodging accommodation Barcelona, got wider and more professional services.

This not just the country but it is also essence of how the people preserved the natural resources and developed to serve the visitors as well as the locals.

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The interior design of the Building is really surprising; it is designed to the tourist and visitors who wants exclusive accommodation.

Not just a nice accommodation, the location is also strategic and very accessible to any part of the city. Palacio de Congresos, main roads, airports and to the center of the city are jus a minute away.

See also Silken Cigarral el Bosque, Hotel Silken Diagonal Barcelona

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Over the years, the population of Spain has increasingly turned away from bullfight but still the bullfighting is always persisting as much as ever. 30% of the population says they are somewhat or very interested, while the 70% shows little to no interest.

 
It is really famous as one of the tourist attraction of Spain, in fact in Barcelona 71% of the total tickets being purchased by the tourist.

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Spain- holds the second in world to tourism destination.  We know Spain contained with historical and full of preservation of cultures of over thousands of years. The Country filled with nice views and beaches, cultures and good hospitality.

Madrid – Capital of Spain and the largest city of Spain. The city is characterized by intense cultural and artistic activity and very lively nightlife. 

Madrid tourist attraction:

Plaza Mayor is the main square in Madrid. It is surrounded by grand old buildings, and lined with cafes.

Royal Palace is open to visitors apart from on the date of an official state function. The Spanish Royal Family Palace with 3000 rooms.

 Parque Del Retiro is situated within walking distance of the main attractions of the city centre. It is a peaceful escape from the hustle and bustle of city life.

The Prado Museum is one of the world's greatest galleries and is Madrid's premier tourist attraction with a higher concentration of masterpieces than any other museum in the world.  There are many works by Goya, El Greco and Velázquez, the great Spanish painters as well as celebrated works by Bosch, Botticelli and Rubens amongst others.

Museo Sorolla is a much lesser known museum but a "must see" for the art enthusiast in Madrid.

Hotel in Madrid are famous here in serving the tourist from other countries.  (More in hotel 4 estrellas Madrid)

Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain in both size and population. It is also the capital of Catalonia, 1 of the 17 Autonomous Communities that make up Spain. Barcelona, more than just a single city, is really a collection of multi-faceted and diverse cities. The visitor unfamiliar with its history might be surprised that such a modern and enterprising city preserves its historic Gothic center almost intact. It is the blend of tradition and modernity that attracts thousands of tourists to visit Barcelona.

The most famous tourist attractions in Barcelona are La Sagrada Familia, L' Aquarium de Barcelona , Poble Espanyol de Montjuic, La Pedrera - Casa Mila by Antonio, Barcelona FC Museum, Barcelona Zoo, Picasso Museum, IMAX Cinema, Miró Museum and many more.

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Hotel Barcelona Centro
Hoteles 4 Estrellas Barcelona

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