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Spain Revisited: Santiago de Compostela

We spent the next couple days driving and exploring the incredible northwest of Spain by rental car. I flew to Santiago de Compostela to start this journey.  Santiago is the third holiest site after Jerusalem and Rome.  Santiago de Compostela is located in Galicia and has been a center for pilgrimage since the 9th century.  According to legend, one of
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Spain Revisited: Toledo

I caught a cab to the train station this morning and headed toward Toledo.  The new, fast trains take just 30 minutes and you are in the beautiful city of Toledo.  A short cab ride from the train station and you are there. Maybe something like: Many of Toledo’s landmarks have remained intact since the Middles Ages, now showcasing the
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Spain Revisited: Madrid

Destination Specialist, Meredith McNaugher, is revisiting Spain–traveling to Madrid before continuing to Northwestern Spain to explore hidden gems.  Beyond the major cities that we are all familiar with and love, Spain is strewn with smaller, less explored places that many are unaware of and likewise some of these places are completely (and happily!) unaware of the modern world.  Many of the places
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SilverSea Cruise—disembarkation in Barcelona, Spain

We arrived in the port of Barcelona, Spain early in the morning. The disembarking process with SilverSea was as seamless as coming aboard. We left the ship at 8:15 a.m. and was on our way to the hotel in 15-minutes. Our ground operator in Barcelona, Made for Spain, arranged accommodations for us at the magnificent Hotel Casa Fuster, which is a
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