Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Spain, [g] or the Kingdom of Spain, [h] [i] is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa. [11] [j] It is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union member state. Spanning across the majority of the Iberian Peninsula, its territory also includes the Canary Islands in the ...
An icon of Catalonia, FC Barcelona is, it maintains, “more than a club.” In Spain, where soccer often has larger political reverberations, it was hugely symbolic that the country secured the ...
Galicia ( / ɡəˈlɪʃ ( i) ə / gə-LISH (-ee)-ə; [3] Galician: Galicia (officially) [ɡaˈliθjɐ] ⓘ or Galiza [ɡaˈliθɐ] ⓘ; [a] [b] Spanish: Galicia) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law. [4] Located in the northwest Iberian Peninsula, it includes the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense ...
Madrid(/məˈdrɪd/ ⓘmə-DRID, Spanish:[maˈðɾið]ⓘ)[n. 1]is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million[8]inhabitants and a metropolitan areapopulation of approximately 7 million. It is the second-largest cityin the European Union(EU), and its monocentricmetropolitan areais the second-largestin the EU.
The 28th European Balloon Festival is the largest gathering of hot air balloons in Spain, with more than 50 balloons displayed throughout the week.
San Sebastián, officially known by the bilingual name Donostia / San Sebastián ( Basque: [doˈnos̺ti.a], Spanish: [san seβasˈtjan] ), [4] [5] is a city and municipality located in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. It lies on the coast of the Bay of Biscay, 20 km (12 miles) from the France–Spain border. The capital city of the province of Gipuzkoa, the municipality's population is ...
Spain is a country located in southwestern Europe occupying most (about 82 percent) of the Iberian Peninsula. It also includes a small exclave inside France called Llívia, as well as the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean 108 km (67 mi) off northwest Africa, and five places of sovereignty ( plazas de soberanía) on and off the coast of North Africa ...
Provinces of Spain. A province in Spain [note 1] is a territorial division defined as a collection of municipalities. [1] [2] [3] The current provinces of Spain correspond by and large to the provinces created under the purview of the 1833 territorial re-organization of Spain, with a similar predecessor from 1822 (during the Trienio Liberal ...