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Cheap Hotels in Spain

Hotels in Spain

Spain is the top holiday destinations for many Brits year after year, in fact more than 50 million foreigners visit Spain every year and it's easy to see why. You might intend to come for a beach holiday or perhaps a tour of the major cities, but before you know it you'll be hooked by something else entirely - by the celebration of a local fiesta or the amazing night life in Madrid, by the Moorish monuments of Andalucia, by Basque cooking, or the wild landscapes and birds of prey of Estremadura. Of course by then you will have realised that they is many sides to Spain and indeed Spaniards of often speak of Las Españas (the Spains) and even refer the their capital in the plural - Los Madriles, the Madrids.

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.

The cities – above all – are compellingly individual. Barcelona, for many, has the edge: for Gaudí's splendid modernista architecture, the lively promenade of Las Ramblas, designer clubs par excellence, and, not least, for Barça – the city's football team. But Madrid, although not as pretty, claims as many devotees. The city and its people, immortalized in the movies of Pedro Almodóvar, have a vibrancy and style that is revealed in a thousand bars and summer terrazas. Not to mention three of the world's finest art museums. Then there's Sevilla, home of flamenco and all the clichés of southern Spain; Valencia, the vibrant Levantine city with an arts scene and nightlife to equal any European rival; and Bilbao, a new entry on Spain's cultural circuit, due to Frank Gehry's astonishing Guggenheim museum.

One of Spain's greatest draws is undeniably it's beaches although with much more variety than the package holiday brochures would have you believe. Long tracts of coastline - along the Costa del Sol, in particular - have been developed into huge concrete hotel and villa complexes but delightful pockets remain even on the big tourist costas. For example on Costa Brava remains a string of hidden coves, in the south there are superb windsurfing waters around Tarifa and some decidedly low-key resorts along the Costa de la Luz. In the north the cooler Atlantic coastline boasts some of the best surfing beaches in Spain. Offshore, the Balearic islands have some superb sands and Ibiza offers the most hedonistic backdrops to beachlife in the Mediterranean.

Spain Embassy

For your convenience we have listed Spainish embassys below. Embassys can provide you with information regarding visas and other important travel information.

 

 
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