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THE PAINTER EL GRECO IN TOLEDO
After a long apprenticeship in Crete, where he was born in 1541, Domenikos Theotokopoulos moved to Venice in 1567 to be schooled as a Renaissance artist. He learned to extract the maximum effect from colours, concentrating the observer’s interest in the faces of his portraits and leaving the rest in relative obscurity, a characteristic tha...
THE FIRST CHOCOLATIERS
Hernán Cortez, they say, first sipped a bitter chocolate drink in the palace of Montezuma back in the 16th century. It was a while before the idea started to get around that it tasted much better if mixed with sugar, and by that stage the odd new beverage had begun to spread across Europe. When the first loads landed in Spain’s Galician po...
LAS FALLAS
Valencia’s Las Fallas de San José is an exuberant and anarchic blend of fireworks, music, festive bonfires and all-night partying. It takes place in Valencia from 12th to 19th of March. The fallas are huge papier-mâché sculptures built by teams of local artists. Each neighborhood sponsors its own fallas, and by festival time more than 350...
DENOMINACIÓN DE ORIGEN CALIFICADA RIOJA
Espanjan viinialueiden ehdoton ykkönen on Rioja, joka sekä laadussa että sen määrässä on kauan ollut Espanjan tärkein viinialue. Alueen merkittävyys perustuu vahvaan ranskalaiseen alkusysäykseen, joka aiheutui viinikirvan tuhoamien ranskalaisviljelmien myötä Espanjaan siirtyneiden ranskalaisten viinintekijöiden vaikutuksesta 1870-luvulla.
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