Wonderful Places To See In Spain
With such a multitude of locations to choose from and so many different things to see, it is no wonder why many tourists all over the world come to visit Spain. There is just something about it that invites you, lures you in and finally enchants your senses like in a too beautiful dream. The beautiful part is that you can decide when to wake up!
The Prado Musem contains one of the most valuable art piece collections in all of Europe! These collections date back to the XII century and go up to the XIX century. Here you can also find the old Royal Spanish Collection. Among the great painters and sculptors whose art pieces you will be likely to visit, here are some valuable names you may be familiar with: Diego Velazquez, Francisco Goya, El Greco, Bartolome Esteban Murrilo, Tizian, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael.
The Statue of Christopher Columbus or Mirador de Colon is a 60 m monument dedicated to the explorer bearing the same name. It is located at the lower end of the La Rambla Boulevard in Barcelona.
It was originally built for Universal Expocision de Barcelona being located at the site where Columbus returned to Spain after his first voyage in America. The monument serves as a memento that Barcelona really is the place where the world’s most famous voyager reported to Queen Isabella and Ferdinand after his most famous trip of all.
Port Aventura is Spain’s largest amusement park totaling a staggering 825 hectares of land and it can be found around 10 km from Reus (Costa Dorara) and 120 km from Barcelona, more precisely, in the Salou resort in east Spain. It stands as the biggest amusement park in Europe and the second in the world after the Bush Gardens in America.
Its size is split down into five areas, each of them representing specific attractions: the calming Mediterranean, the exotic Polynesia, the millenary China, Mexico and its colorful sheets of land and last but not the least, The Wild West.
If you plan on visiting the city of Avila, situated also near the city of Madrid, you should know that it is regarded as the ring of walls containing no more than 88 towers.
There aren’t too many things to think about if you want your vacation to be just right. No pompous places, no complicated directions or anything involving headaches and lots of decisions. Just think Spain and these worries will just melt away!