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| Torre Cerrado | The highest peak in the Picos de Europa |
| Madrid | capital of Spain |
| type of government | Parliamentary monarchy |
| King of Spain | Juan Carlos de Borbón |
| currency | euro |
| los Pirineos | the mountains that form a natural border between Spain and France |
| Tossa de Mar | a beach that attracts sunbathers from around the world |
| La Península Ibérica | the geographic region that includes Spain and Portugal |
| bullfighting | la corrida de toros |
| the monument in the Plaza de España in Madrid | honors Miguel de Cervantes and two characters from Don Quijote de la Mancha |
| La Mancha and its windmills (los molinos de vientos) | made famous in don Miguel de Cervantes' novel, Don Quijote de la Mancha |
| Cataluña and País Vasco | two regions in Spain principally composed of the Pyrenees (los Pirineos) mountains |
| Andalucía | the autonomous region in southern Spain that exports olive oil worldwide |
| the Romans | ruled Spain for seven centuries before the invasion of the Moors |
| 711 A.D. - 1492 | the Moors invaded and ruled parts of Spain |
| 1492 | the year of the "Reconquista" (reconquest), the beggining of the era of Spanish expansion. . . Explorers and missionaries colonized parts of the Carribean and Central and South America |
| the 19th century | the Spanish Empire weakened due to wars with France, England and the U.S. |
| 1936-1939 | the Spanish Civil War |
| General Francisco Franco | ruled Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975 |
| Los Picos de Europa | form the largest national park in all of Europe |
| la Doñana | a nature reserve along the coast of Andalucía, home to many protected bird species; Migratory birds stop here as they travel from their winter grounds in Africa back to Europe |
| la Meseta | Spains' interior high plateau, covers 15,000 square miles and has a continental climate similar to that of Montana with very cold winters |
| Euskera | the language of the basque region;not related to any other language in the world; it's orgins are believed to date to the Stone Age |
| El AVE | a high-speed train linking Madrid with Seville and Barcelona; carries passengers between the two cities in three hours, less than half the time it would take to drive |
| La Feria de abril | a celebration in Sevilla |
| the bodies of water that are on Spain's coasts | el Mar Mediterráneo and el Océano Atlántico |
| the languages of Spain | Castilian, Galician,Basque, Catalán |
| Pablo Picasso | the famous artist who spent the majority of his life in exile due to the dictatorship of Francisco Franco |
