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Jul 10th 2007, 11:14 pm

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Re: Favourite Pictures of Spain

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You don't like the kursaal? How can you not like the Kursaal???

To me it just seems so out of place, it wrecks La Zurriola...but then again I am not a pointy headed new wave architecture buff. I like SS's turn of the century charm better, the ironwork on the Bridges or around the beaches, the Hotel Cristina and the old houses on the hill.

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Jul 11th 2007, 12:31 am

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Re: Favourite Pictures of Spain

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A fortress destroyed in the XIVth century by a Duke of Lancaster, son of Henry III, who pretends the castilian crown. He lost the war but his daughter married with the heir of the king of Castilla, so the Duke become (somehow) regent of the kingdom...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of...e_of_Lancaster

This fortress is the Tower de Castro, Xinzo de Limia (Orense).

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Jul 11th 2007, 4:22 am

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Re: Favourite Pictures of Spain

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of...e_of_Lancaster

This fortress is the Tower de Castro, Xinzo de Limia (Orense).

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From the landscape I'm guessing Asturias, Cantabria, Galicia but have no clue exactly. It is beautiful! In the same vein here is another Mrs. IP selected foto:

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Jul 11th 2007, 5:45 am

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Re: Favourite Pictures of Spain

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You don't like the kursaal? How can you not like the Kursaal???

Hola!
2nd photo is El raton de Getaria, and... the Kursaal

Regards,
Carol

Jul 11th 2007, 5:46 am

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Re: Favourite Pictures of Spain

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From the landscape I'm guessing Asturias, Cantabria, Galicia but have no clue exactly. It is beautiful! In the same vein here is another Mrs. IP selected foto:

hhmm, whales' teeth, so somewhere on the Galician coast?
Carol

Jul 11th 2007, 5:49 am

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Re: Favourite Pictures of Spain

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of...e_of_Lancaster

This fortress is the Tower de Castro, Xinzo de Limia (Orense).

New pic:

Hhmm, picos de europa in the background? Not sure about the place. West of Santander? More clues, please.

Carol

Jul 11th 2007, 5:50 am

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Re: Favourite Pictures of Spain

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Hola!
2nd photo is El raton de Getaria, and... the Kursaal

Regards,
Carol

The 2nd photo is spectacular BTW...if it just didn't have that damn ugly Kursaal screwing it up.

Jul 11th 2007, 5:53 am

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Re: Favourite Pictures of Spain

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hhmm, whales' teeth, so somewhere on the Galician coast?
Carol

No, not Galicia...but it is in the North.

Jul 11th 2007, 6:03 am

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Re: Favourite Pictures of Spain

Hola!
Sorry, forgot to say congratulations to the karma winners! Correct answer: San Ignacio de Loyola monastery & basilica.

ok, not Galicia, hhmmmm...more clues, please. I'll say Zarautz - stab in the dark.
Carol

Jul 11th 2007, 9:31 am

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No, Zarauts no...though I love the place. Spent 2 weeks at Hotel Zarautz several years ago and highly recommend it.

Hints....Asturias, silence

Jul 11th 2007, 7:15 pm

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Re: Favourite Pictures of Spain

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No, Zarauts no...though I love the place. Spent 2 weeks at Hotel Zarautz several years ago and highly recommend it.

Hints....Asturias, silence

Bizarre, I think I just stumbled on a website which shows theis - and no, I didn't google it!!

Playa el silencio, Gavieira.

Jul 11th 2007, 8:10 pm

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Re: Favourite Pictures of Spain

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From the landscape I'm guessing Asturias, Cantabria, Galicia but have no clue exactly. It is beautiful! In the same vein here is another Mrs. IP selected foto:

This photo is so beautiful. Did she use a filter? is the west part of Asturias?

I know my pic could be anywhere, but this coast, always grey and windy, is so feared by the seamen... So many crosses along the cliffs reminds the shipwrecks and the lost lives...

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