Spain

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Introduction¹

Dictionary

Spain : country in southwestern Europe that occupies most of the Iberian Peninsula and borders on the Atlantic Ocean (including the Bay of Biscay and the Gulf of Cadiz) and the Mediterranean Sea area 195,124 square miles (505,370 square kilometers) — Webster See also OneLook

Encyclopedia

Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southwestern Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the southernmost point of continental Europe, 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 Eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Balearic Islands, in the Western Mediterranean Sea, and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, in Africa. Peninsular Spain is bordered to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; to the east and south by the Mediterranean Sea and Gibraltar; and to the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. Spain’s capital and largest city is Madrid, and other major urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Zaragoza, Málaga, Murcia and Palma de Mallorca. — Wikipedia

Spain (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Spain (The World Factbook, CIA)
Spain (BBC Country Profiles)

Spain (Wolfram Alpha)

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Inspiration

Discover Spain (Visit Europe, Official European Travel Website)

Introducing Spain (Lonely Planet, YouTube Video)
Travel Destinations in Spain (Lonely Planet, Website)

Spain Destinations (Frommer’s)

Destination Spain National Geographic, YouTube Video)
Travel in Spain (National Geographic, Website)

Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Spain (Atlas Obscura)

Madrid is the capital and most populous municipality of Spain. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the second-largest in the EU. The municipality covers 604.3 km2 (233.3 sq mi) geographical area. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at about 650 meters above mean sea level. The capital city of both Spain and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983). It is also the political, economic, and cultural centre of the country. — Wikipedia

36 Hours in Madrid in 360 (The New York Times, YouTube 360° Video)

Madrid (360 Stories)

Madrid (Spain’s Official Tourism Website)

Introducing Madrid (Lonely Planet, YouTube Video)
Travel Destinations in Madrid (Lonely Planet, Website)

Fun in the Sun

Best Beaches in Spain (Google)
Best Beaches in Spain (YouTube)

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Preservation

Spain (World Heritage List, UNESCO)
List of World Heritage Sites in Spain (Wikipedia)

History

Spain (World History Encyclopedia)

Museum

Museo del Prado, officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It houses collections of European art, dating from the 12th century to the early 20th century, based on the former Spanish royal collection, and the single best collection of Spanish art. Founded as a museum of paintings and sculpture in 1819, it also contains important collections of other types of works. The numerous works by Francisco Goya, the single most extensively represented artist, as well as by Hieronymus Bosch, El Greco, Peter Paul Rubens, Titian, and Diego Velázquez, are some of the highlights of the collection. — Wikipedia

Museo Nacional del Prado (Official Website)
Museo Nacional del Prado (Official YouTube Channel)
Museo Nacional del Prado (360° Virtual Tour)

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (“Queen Sofía National Museum Art Centre”; MNCARS) is Spain’s national museum of 20th-century art. The museum is named for Queen Sofía. It is located in Madrid, near the Atocha train and metro stations, at the southern end of the so-called Golden Triangle of Art (located along the Paseo del Prado and also comprising the Museo del Prado and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza). The museum is mainly dedicated to Spanish art. Highlights of the museum include collections of Spain’s two greatest 20th-century masters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. The most famous masterpiece in the museum is Picasso’s 1937 painting Guernica. — Wikipedia

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Official Website)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Official YouTube Channel)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (360° Virtual Tour, Google Arts & Culture)

Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum (Spanish: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza) named after its founder, Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza), or simply the Thyssen, is an art museum in Madrid, Spain, located near the Prado Museum on one of the city’s main boulevards. It is known as part of the “Golden Triangle of Art”, which also includes the Prado and the Reina Sofía national galleries. The Thyssen-Bornemisza fills the historical gaps in its counterparts’ collections: in the Prado’s case this includes Italian primitives and works from the English, Dutch and German schools, while in the case of the Reina Sofía it concerns Impressionists, Expressionists, and European and American paintings from the 20th century. With over 1,600 paintings, it was once the second largest private collection in the world after the British Royal Collection. — Wikipedia

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Official Website)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Official YouTube Channel)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (360° Virtual Tour)

Museu Picasso is an art museum in Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. It houses an extensive collection of artworks by the twentieth-century Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, with a total of 4251 of his works. It is housed in five adjoining medieval palaces on Montcada Street in the La Ribera neighborhood in the Old City of Barcelona.It opened to the public on 9 March 1963, becoming the first museum dedicated to Picasso’s work and the only one created during his lifetime. — Wikipedia

Museu Picasso (Official Website)
Museu Picasso (Virtual Tour)

Dalí Theatre and Museum is a museum dedicated to the artist Salvador Dalí in his home town of Figueres, in Catalonia, Spain. Salvador Dalí lived there from 1984 to 1989, and is buried in a crypt below the stage. — Wikipedia

Dalí Theatre-Museum (Official Website)
Dalí Theatre-Museum (360° Virtual Tour)

Museums in Spain (Museums of the World)