Spain Portugal category: 3192 books
Alentejo, Portugal Travel Guide
Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
The Alentejo is one of the lesser known of Portugal’s five regions despite its proximity to the famous Algarve. The sweeping plains and golden wheat fields stretch inland beyond the Serra do Caldeirao and the Monchique mountains and this up-and-coming tourist destination is dotted with sleepy white...
Zaragoza, Spain Travel Guide
Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Zaragoza is one of the most picturesque cities in north-eastern Spain yet this historic city has often been overshadowed by Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia. The city is situated on the banks of the River Ebro amidst beautiful greenery, mountains, and historic architecture. With a known history of...
Admiration and Awe
Morisco Buildings and Identity Negotiations in Early Modern Spanish Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
This book offers the first systematic analysis of the cultural and religious appropriation of Andalusian architecture by Spanish historians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. To date this process of Christian appropriation has generally been discussed as a phenomenon of architectural...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Mario de Araujo Cabral became Portugal's first Formula One driver when he qualified for the Grand Prix of Portugal in 1959. His name was soon blackened by an incident when he pulled onto the track at Monsanto in front of F1 great Jack Brabham. The incident has been linked with Cabral ever since. A...
Portugal
Géographie, économie, histoire et politique
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Malgré l'absence de frontières naturelles nettement dessinées, le Portugal constitue une région dont la personnalité n'a cessé de s'affirmer au cours de l'histoire. Les limites politiques séparant le domaine linguistique du galégo-portugais de celui des dialectes espagnols ont fait preuve d'une remarquable stabilité. De par sa situation marginale,...
by Karen Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Málaga is well known by tourists as the gateway city for holidays on the Costa Del Sol in southern Spain. Many visitors rush through the airport and exit the city quickly on their way to the popular beach resorts and never give Málaga more than a quick look. But Málaga is a lively,...
Imperial Lyric
New Poetry and New Subjects in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Present scholarly conversations about early European and global modernity have yet to acknowledge fully the significance of Spain and Spanish cultural production. Poetry and ideology in early modern Spain form the backdrop for Imperial Lyric, which seeks to address this shortcoming. Based on readings...
Barcelona and Madrid
Social Networks of the Avant-Garde
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
For hundreds of years, Barcelona and Madrid have shared a deep rivalry. Throughout history, they have competed in practically every aspect of social life, sport, politics, and culture. While competition between cities is commonplace in many nations around the world, in the case of Barcelona and Madrid...
by Michelle Jellen
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
Elena is lost in the shuffle between her three overachieving siblings. But now that she’s on her own for a whole semester, she intends to keep the spotlight on herself—and Spain is just the place to do it. Once she starts living it up in tapas bars, lying out on the beach (even though it’s November),...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Aveiro (Portugal) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
Speak Spanish in Spain
For British Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
This book is intended to be a basic introduction to the Spanish language for beginners who plan to live or travel in Spain. It is also designed especially for people from the U.K., although it could be appreciated and useful to English speakers from any country. It could also be very useful to learners...
Catalonia and Portugal
The Iberian Peninsula from the periphery
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Between 2010 and 2013 the European Science Foundation project «Cuius Regio» undertook a study of the reasons for cohesion of some European regions, including the analysis of the ways for cohesion of two peripherical Iberian entities: Portugal and Catalonia. A scientific meeting held in Lleida in...
SPANISH INTELLECT
From the Fifth to the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
It is in the history of Spain and of Scotland that he [Buckle] now seeks illustrations of these cardinal propositions. Spain and Scotland exemplify more palpably than any other modern peoples the baleful action of the protective spirit of Church and State; and the use to which he turns the history...
BRITONS IN SPAIN
The History of The British Battalion of the XVth International Brigade
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
A history of the British Battalion of the XVth International Brigade, of the two thousand British volunteers who fought, bled and died on Spanish soil between August 1936 and December 1938. The killed and missing numbered five hundred, the wounded over twelve hundred; many were incapacitated for life....