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SPAINMuseums
Museo Nacional del Prado (in English or Spanish, virtual tours of this world-famous art museum)
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (in English, Spanish, or Catalan)
Museo de El Greco (in Spanish)
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (in English, Spanish, French, or Basque)
Museo Nacional Centro del arte Reina Sofia (in English or Spanish)
Sites to See
Alhambra and Generalife (palace and gardens of the Moorish kings, in Granada)
Sagrada Familia (famous unfinished Barcelona cathedral by Antoni Gaudi, in English, Spanish, or Catalan)
Toledo (pictures, sights to see, history)
El Real Alcazar de Sevilla (a group of buildings dating back to the Middle Ages, combining Islamic and Christian styles)
El Camino de Santiago (the famous pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela)
Famous People
Cervantes Project 2000 (biographical information and links to his work)
Antoni Gaudí (biographical information and pictures of his many works)
Federico García Lorca (biographical information and links to his poems)
Pablo Picasso (his life, his works, pictures, and links)
Francisco de Goya (biographical information and pictures of his work)
Francisco Franco Bahamonde (links to biographies and a diverse collection of sites about the Generalissimo)
Salvador Dalí (short biography and links to his works)
History
The Spanish-American War: A War in Perspective, 1898-1998 (an online exhibit from the New York Public Library)
Spanish Civil War (collection of links to archives, biographies, propaganda, and other information)
Visigothic Spain (409-711 C.E.)
Spain in the Middle Ages (information about Spain under Muslim rule, from the 8th to the 15th centuries)
The Spanish Inquisition and Medieval Heresy (primary documents in translation)
Cuisine
Interactive Recipe for Paella (takes you through the process of making paella from pictures of the seafood market to cooking)
Miscellaneous Cultural Resources
Patrin (an online journal about the Romani gypsies: their history and culture)
Flamenco World (everything you wanted to know about Flamenco, plus sound files, in English or Spanish)