Feria del Caballo | Rob Penn | Spain, Costa Brava, Jerez

At their best, Spanish festivals are visceral experiences - stomach churning turns from the bullfight to the bar to the dance floor. To enjoy them, you have to have, like the Spaniards, an extraordinary capacity to experience with your senses

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Fiesta De La Merce | Christopher Somerville | Spain, Catalunya, Barcelona

Anyone foolish enough to get themselves lost driving a Madrid-registered car during morning rush hour in Barcelona will quickly get a pretty good idea of the self-assertive prickliness of the capital city of Catalunya

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Castles in the Sky | Roger Starkey | Spain, Catalunya, Barcelona

A towering mass of humanity stretched towards to the sky. The cherry on the human ice cream cone scampered up the tower with rapidity and precision

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Barcelona Bar Guide | Sally Howard | Spain, Catalunya, Barcelona

From Euro panache to gothic grime, Barcelona bar culture is a tale of two very different cities. Raise a sangria in homage to Catalonia…

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Candy-Coated, Stream-Lined Rocket Ships | Mark Eveleigh | Spain, Catalunya, Barcelona

The icing on the cake is undeniably the candy-coated, streamlined rocket-ships that are the great spires of the Sagrada Familia Basilica

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Barcelona | Fiona Dunlop | Spain, Catalunya, Barcelona

Famously proud, culturally dynamic and economically self-sufficient, Barcelona is a city which pulls out all the stops. It behaves like a capital, even thinks it’s a capital, much to the chagrin of Madrid

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Barcelona Forward | Benjamin Ergas | Spain, Catalunya, Barcelona

The Catalonian flag fluttering alongside the official Spanish flag, a giant ad of Ronaldinho in his Barça football shirt advertising for Nike and construction cranes supporting a new development project

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The Line of Fire | Sally Howard | Spain, Catalunya, Barcelona

Leaping through the streets of the Catalan capital in inflammable trousers is all in a day’s work for Catalan Jordi Ullate Garcia, president of the Barcelona ‘association of devils and beasts of fire’

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The Art of the Tapa | Gillian Ivory | Spain, Catalunya, Barcelona

With such a medley of rules and regulations surrounding the tapa, the only good advice for those going from one region to another is to watch what everyone else in the bar is doing

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There's Something About Madrid | Roger Starkey | Spain, Madrid, Madrid

A couple of additional cañas, with the customary accompanying tapas, had wetted our appetites for one of Madrid's most famous meals, a bocadillo de calamares..

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