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Spain Travel Guide,Tourist Information,Spanish Embassy List,Student Visa,Madrid Hotel Accommodation,Schools,Colleges Spain Travel Guide: Discount Hotels, Vacation Deals, Holiday Packages, Cheap Accommodation, Tourism & Student Visa & Spanish Embassy Information Search our website Home Site Map Travel Visa Info Hotels Hostels Car Hire Jobs Schools Products Traveler's Guide Visa & Embassy Guide Accommodation Finder Budget Hostels Guide Cheap Hotels Guide Tours Worldwide Travel Books Travel Forum Study Abroad Programs School & College Guide Top 10 Language Schools Browse for Schools Art & Design Schools Boarding Schools Guide Business Schools Guide Colleges, Diploma Programs Computer Science & IT Schools Distance Learning Programs Language Schools Worldwide Schools & Programs for Children Technical Colleges Courses TESOL / TEFL Courses Guide Universities & Gradschools Student Forums Travel > Spain Travel Guide Spain Travel Guide (Spain Visa & Embassy Info) Full country name: Kingdom of Spain Population: 40.21 million Capital City: Madrid Languages: Castilian Spanish 74% (official nationwide); Catalan 17%, Galician 7%, Basque 2% (each official regionally) Religion: 90% Roman Catholic Government: Parliamentary Monarchy, EU Member Time Zone: GMT/UTC +1 Dialling Code: 34 Electricity: 230V, 50 Hz Weights & measures: Metric Money & Costs: Currency: Euro Meals Budget: 5-10 Mid-range: 10-15 High: 15-20 Top: 20+ Accommodation: Budget: 15-40 Mid-range: 40-70 High: 70-100 Top: 100+ Spain is considered one of western Europe's most affordable countries to travellers. A budget of 40.00 a day, will allow you a basic hotel room, regular meals, public transport and entry to museums. With 100.00 a day, you can stay in extremely comfortable accommodation, rent a car and eat some of the best food Spain has to offer. Credit and debit cards are widely accepted at hotels and restaurants, especially from the middle range up, and also for long-distance train tickets. The law requires menu prices in restaurants to include a service charge, and tipping is a matter of personal choice. Most people leave some small change if they're satisfied and 5% is usually plenty. It's common to leave small change at bar and cafe tables. Be careful with your money (paper or plastic), as tourists are a major target of theft. Geography: Geographically, Spain's diversity is immense. There are endless tracts of wild and crinkled sierra to explore, as well as some spectacularly rugged stretches of coast between the beaches. It shares the Iberian peninsula with Portugal and is bordered to the north by the Pyrenees, which separate Spain from France. The Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera), 193km (120 miles) southeast of Barcelona, and the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa are part of Spain, as are the tiny enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on the north African mainland. With the exception of Switzerland, mainland Spain is the highest and most mountainous country in Europe, with an average height of 610m (2000ft). The Pyrenees stretch roughly 400km (249 miles) from the Basque Country in the west to the Mediterranean Sea; at times the peaks rise to over 1524m (5000ft). The main physical feature of Spain is the vast central plateau, or Meseta, divided by several chains of sierras. Southeast of Granada is the Sierra Nevada, part of the Betic Cordillera, which runs parallel to the Mediterranean, and the highest point on the Spanish peninsula, rising to 3481m (11,420ft). The Mediterranean coastal area reaches from the French frontier in the northeast down to the Straits of Gibraltar, the narrow strip of water linking the Mediterranean with the Atlantic and separating Spain from North Africa. The largest cities and their populations include Madrid, 5,130,000 (metro. area), 3,170,000 (city proper), Barcelona, 1,530,000; Valencia, 740,000; Seville, 680,000 Climate: Spains climate varies from temperate in the north to dry and hot in the south. The best months are from April to October, although mid-summer (July to August) can be excessively hot throughout the country except the coastal regions. Madrid is best in late spring or autumn. The central plateau can be bitterly cold in winter. Public Holidays: Jan 1 2005 New Years Day. Jan 6 * Epiphany. Mar 19 * San Jose. Mar 24 * Maundy Thursday. Mar 25 Good Friday. May 1 Labour Day. Aug 15 Assumption. Oct 12 National Day. Nov 1 All Saints Day. Dec 6 Constitution Day. Dec 8 Immaculate Conception. Dec 25 Christmas Day. (a) *Holiday may be replaced by the autonomous communities with another date. (b) The following dates are also celebrated as regional public holidays (within these regions, there are further public holidays peculiar to the various towns and cities): Jan 29 Dia de la Convivencia (Ceuta). Feb 28 Andaluca Day. Mar 1 Balearic Isles Day. Apr 23 San Jorge (Aragon) and Day of the Region of Castilla y Leon. May 2 San Segundo (Castilla y Leon) and Fiesta of the Communidad de Madrid. May 17 Dia de las Letras Gallegas (Galicia). May 30 Canaries Day. May 31 Day of the Region of Castilla-La Mancha. Jun 9 Day of the Region of Murcia and Day of La Rioja. Sep 8 Asturias Day, Day of Extremadura and Nuestra la Virgen de la Victoria (Melilla). Sep 11 National Day of Catalonia. Sep 15 Nuestra Senora de la Bien Aparecida (Cantabria). Sep 17 Commemoration of the Spanish refounding of the City of Melilla. Dec 26 San Esteban (Balearic Isles and Catalonia). (c) Catalonia, Navarra, Pais Vasco (Basque Country) and Valenciana also celebrate Easter Monday ( Apr 12 2004 and Mar 28 2005 ). Study in Spain: Below are the latest Spanish language schools, art schools, business schools & colleges to join our directory. 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Hotels and airfares are cheap, sweaty summer crowds are a dim memory, and there's plenty going on: Attend Cultural events: Opera, Theater, and Symphony Winter Seasons. Have Fun in the Snow: skiing, snowboarding See Christmas Markets, Festivals and Carnival Enjoy Winter food - an entirely different animal from summer's simplicity! Why Travel in Winter? While it's great fun hanging out under the August sun slurping spaghetti with fresh tomato sauce at an outdoor cafe in Rome, winter travel offers some interesting opportunities you may not have considered. There are the obvious ones, like skiing and snowboarding. But what about the opera and orchestra season? European cultural events in historic halls are going full blast in winter. Winter offers you a chance to see Europe in a whole different--albeit dimmer--light. The season presents you with a chance to put on your woollies and hike snow covered peaks, or squeeze into a tux and go to an opera gala. How can I afford all this? Saving Money If you think you can't afford a winter vacation, take a look at winter airline prices. It could cost you a half to a third of the price of a summer flight to get to Europe in the off-season. Hotels usually offer discounts in winter as well. But isn't it Cold Over There? Some places are indeed quite chilly. But the south of Italy, Spain, Portugal and most of Greece are pretty balmy in winter. Winter is a great time to visit Spain's Andalucian trio of Seville, Cordoba and Granada. Or perhaps you'd rather take a winter visit to almost deserted Pompeii with a stopover in Naples in order to eat some of the best food in Italy. Check our Europe Weather Links for the skinny on temperatures. The Contrarian View - Winter as, well...Winter! Why look for sun and balmy weather at all? Winter has charms of its own. 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