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SPAIN is a country with an enormous historical past, a country full of sunshine, contrasts, friendly people and long sandy beaches. Spain, is bordered by the Pyrenees in the north and the Sierra Nevada in the south and was for thousands of years one of the most important cultural centers of Europe, where Greeks, Romans and Arabs left their mark. Historical cities, like Toledo, Seville, Cadiz, Segovia, Pamplona and others, have many age-old monuments. Cartagena is a major historical port, as it is where the Armada set sail. Cartagena is still an important naval base for Spain.
Geographically and climatically, Spain is extremely versatile with the green fields in the north, with windmills scattered all over the countryside of the Don Quixote de la Mancha, up to the hot sand of the south. There is much to investigate in Spanish history with a visit to the breath-taking Alhambra palace in Granada a must. Discover and become acquainted with this country and also to love it!
The Costa Blanca (white coast) is located between the Costa Brava in the north and the Costa del Sol in the south. "It must be a piece of heaven", said the Moors, when they arrived a thousand years before on the Costa Blanca. Accustomed to the hot desert they believed, that this place was paradise on earth.
340 days in the year the sun shines warm on the beaches. Olive and eucalyptus trees decorate the hillsides. Orange and lemon trees cover the valleys and in February the white and pink almond bloom gleams on the hills.
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