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...Spanish term is masificación, which roughly translates as "packed solid." It's what happens when too many people want to lie on the same hot southern beach. Given that many of the 50-million-plus visitors to Spain each year have precisely this in mind, Andalucía's beaches in the summer are often water-to-wall carpets of human flesh. With all the noise, squash and stress, you might as well be in the office. Are there any quiet beaches left in Andalucía? Yes. Take the 442 coastal road from Mazagón toward...
...city of San Sebastián is known throughout Spain for its signature shell-shaped beach, Playa de La Concha, and its exquisite culinary tradition. Less well-known is its breathtaking coastline, but if you're in the area, don't miss a walk along it. Start at the gigantic glass cubes of Rafael Moneo's Kursaal Convention Center, then cross the adjacent Kursaal Bridge, turn right toward the Paseo Nuevo (New Promenade), and leave the Old Quarter behind. The almost 1-km-long Paseo meanders between stately cliffs and churning sea; locals come on windy days and "play" - outrunning...
...general-election campaign. That was how Pasqual Maragall, Socialist President of the regional government of Catalonia, described the video statement by two masked ETA members that the separatists were suspending their campaign of bombing and killing - but only in Catalonia. Analysts speculate the ETA move is designed to divide Spain's main parties in their shared approach to terrorism and to try to draw Catalonia into the Basque conflict. The announcement is politically embarrassing for Maragall, because it followed a recent secret meeting between the leader of his governing partner, Josep Lluís Carod-Rovira of the Republican Left...
...Orlean’s adventures have left her with a cache of anecdotes that go beyond the standard cocktail party fare. Have you ever chatted with a female bullfighter in Spain? She has. Split your time between old-school rappers and dog show aficionados? Check. Written an article for an outdoors magazine that got made into the summer blockbuster Blue Crush? Waded through alligator-ridden swampwater in search of an elusive “ghost orchid?” And did Meryl Streep play you in Spike Jonze’s Adaptation? Orlean can boast all this and more...
...Mannerists like Parmigianino. He readily took on their style; one of several versions of the Purification of the Temple, from the 1570s, quotes extensively from Raphael and Michelangelo. Yet he failed to find great success in Italy, possibly because he made disparaging remarks about Michelangelo, and thus moved to Spain in 1576. He settled in Toledo and for the rest of his life worked for the religious establishment and the local intellectual élite. Soon after his move to Spain, his work changed radically. By about 1600, in another version of Christ driving the traders and money changers from...