Spain Travel Skills
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- Rick Steves European Travel Talk | In this travel talk, Rick Steves describes traveling in Spain from gawking at astounding architecture and rambling down the Ramblas in Barcelona to eating tasty tapas and visiting top museums in Madrid to exploring southern Spain's Granada, Sevilla, and the whitewashed hill towns of Andalucía. Download the PDF handout for this class: goo.gl/RzysXw Subscribe at goo.gl/l6qjuS for more new travel talks! #ricksteves #traveltalks
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Rick Steves, gives a great depiction of the most emblematic historic and cultural aspects of Spain.
Rick Steves is the real MVP
Parece que en España solo existan Barcelona y Madrid. Algunos de rebote viajan a otras ciudades, pero España es muy grande y tiene ciudades y pueblos increíbles, mucho menos explotados que las dos capitales que parecen parques temáticos.
Great great grandmother
Was from Spain
Before I travel I always check out Rick's videos, he's awesome!
Spain rocks!
Me encanta Rick, la pasión que pone en sus comentarios y que sabe distinguir entre los lugares auténticos y los masivamente turísticos. Ameno y divertido.
A lot of Americans started visiting Europe because of his show on PBS.
His contribution is huge.
Not really true but I love Rick and his travels. Very informative.
That man is an encyclopedia.
We all like Spain
Going to have to grab the book once the new edition comes out! Your videos have been great
I love Spain, I would love to travel to Valencia, do you have videos of this beautiful city, please let me know. Thank you
Thank you!♥
love your work!
Gracias! un buen montón de buena información.
Thanks for this nice talk. You said "100 Years War" at 7:10. This should be the "30 Years War" which ended in 1648. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years'_War
Thanks sir ! Truly loving your tour historical cultural history ❤ 💙 ♥! God bless you always 🙏❤.
Rick, love your videos and found this video really interesting. Have you been in Valencia or Merida in Spain? I think they are beautiful and interesting cities too
Nice informative chat, the coverage seems so old like 2005 and posted in 2014, lots of things has change.
hello thanks Rick saludos
didnt expect to get a tech talk about this
Hi Rick Steve I like the kids from Spain I understand about the kids and the history
I am heading there soon!
This is a university level informative video 👍
“ Peppers roulette “ haha!
In a few days I'm going to Mérida
+Nuno Pestana I heard its beautiful, like most of Spain.
My fathers ancestors are part spaniard.thanks.
Hi, what is your suggestion if you have to choose between Lisbon and Andalucia during Xmas?
Then you're in the right video :P
Rick why would you only want to eat bull tail soup only once. Oxtail soup is delicious and is very popular in many countries. If you come to Rio de Janeiro, get in touch with me and I will show you how great this dish is in many countries around the world.
That's a cold, cold crowd. But really great tips, some of which are also transferable to Latin America ( where my family is from).
The Alcázar is not a romantic exaggeration, the fire only destroyed the roof and some rooms inside, it was restored like it was historically.
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Visited Barcelona, enjoyed but because of the high number of tourist and limited time there, limited what we could see.. long queues.. for most sort after sights.. shame really but enjoyed finding our own way around nevertheless .
At 27:10 he mentions a 3 hour train from Barcelona to Sevilla...does this exist, or was he underestimating the time? All I am seeing is a 5.5 hour train.
refers to the "AVE" (acronyms; Spanish High Speed, Renfe is the company). It takes about 2 and a half hours and costs between 30 and 100 euros depending on the ticket.
Actually, he said from Madrid to Sevilla and it is an AVE. I took this several years ago to start the Via de la Plata. Fast and easy.
Not from Barcelona to Sevilla. It's more than 900 km
Si, en un tren de alta velocidad.
Hi i hope you can and i think easily decribe vegan local food and culture food . many vegans and vegetarians don't venture into that because you know its hard to know names of those dishes and search them all , but i think since you know it all and your team helps you A lot , i think vegan guide book about local meals will be easy as will as vegetarians , vegans always travel to places where they can find vegan places to dine and stuff like that but they don't socialize with food locally for not having a good knowledge , i think this might keep you busy few weeks or so but at the end you are an amazing great guy who loves to help all , thank you so much Mr , and excuse me for my bad English writing if you may ,
Saud .
No Spanish? Just ask for VERDURAS NO CARNES. ENSALADAS NO CARNES. sure they have vegan places.
Serrano Ham!
I want to hear more about the drunken brawl festivals of Europe. What festivals is he talking about?
San Fermin in Pamplona is the biggest but La Tomatina in Buñol is popular too. You will find many drunken yankee kids vomiting til dawn
Rick Steves: Which palace is the most impressive in Europe?
+Aitor Navarro de Gascón If you mean size, I guess it's Versailles
Nuno Pestana No not in size, the Royal Palace in Madrid is twice the size of the Versailles.
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Ah sí? No tenía idea de eso! Pero posiblemente no se puede visitar, o si puede? Estoy impresionado por tu información. En este fin de semana yo voy a visitar una ciudad en tu país (Mérida), que ya conozco, pero quiero conocer mejor. Saludos desde Portugal!
Nuno Pestana
No estoy seguro si se puede visitar pero supongo que si porque ya no es habitado por familia Rea,l sólo tiene uso para funciones oficiales y ceremoniales, etc.
Nuno Pestana
Al parecer si que tienen entradas al Palacio Real de Madrid aquí te dejo un enlace: www.patrimonionacional.es/real-sitio/palacios/6039 .... Si Mérida es una ciudad muy antigüa con mucha historia. Nunca he estado allí porque soy de California en Estados Unidos pero de padres Españoles. Saludos!
I think the language of Catalunya is Catalan.
and Spanish. Two languages.
00:30:58 they do not learn spanish as a second language at school but at home as a first language, everybody. Only a minority learn catalan at home as well as spanish. They are as spanish as people in the other spanish regions and learn spanish at home as a first language.
He is mixing Moors with Arabs, in Spanish Moor means Muslim as well.
In 711 an army (which had north-African mercenaries or moors) conquered Spain for Islam, but who took control of Spain were not north-Africans but Arabs, of Syrian and Arabic origin. It was the last Umayyad alive, Abd-ar-Rahman I, who established the caliphate of Cordoba in the middle of the 8th century.
When christian armies took Toledo in the last part of the 11th century, the key to the south, Spanish Muslims called for help to North-Africa, and it was the Almoravids, radical Muslims (the ISIS of that era), who took control of Andalusia in the 12th century. Different north-African Berber tribes dominated southern Spain for about a century and a half.
The Muslim Spain was unique because it was European, there are no Alhambra.s in North-Africa for god sake. Moors did not bring anything but destruction to Spain.
@LjFJDhs
You are very true. I hadn't realised that: A map painted in a given colour doesnt mean a demographic majority of moors in Spain, buth rather the influence area of a military power. Even the north half of Spain was never under the effective moorish rule, there was rather a network of fortresses and castles to survey the frontline and the territory which was by no means populated with moors
The Moors also occupied Portugal and were expelled out of the country a long time before the Spaniards did. The Kingdom of Granada was Moorish, there may not be anyAlhambra in North Africa but Alhambra was Moorish, not Spanish architecture. Also Portugal is a longer continued established country with about the same borders for centuries.
I adore Rick and I know he's trying to fit all this info into an hour, but I'd much rather him take his time and slower pace like his TV show. I feel fatigued after just 10 minutes.
I think it’s perfect… enough to get by and go find out the details yourself
Thank you for this video. Interesting that you mention The Moors (a lot) seems like they were impressive Africans whom the Spanish were friends with and then there was a disagreement and they got taken over. So, basically all of Spain had beautifully decorated Moorish architecture and gardens. I'm now very interested in learning about these fascinating, creative engineers who made things look royal and regal. It makes Christians look evil. whew...that's a lot to take in. I'd love to know more 1-day trips (you mentioned the ports) and 30-min train trips to 1-hour flights to get to places like the French Rivera and Rome, Italy!
You say Catholics were no longer universal, the name itself means universal. You say the Catholic Church is stronger in Spain, but the majority of Spanish do not attend Mass. As I understand Gallego is a dialect rather than a language.
Gallego is a language, but the catholic church in Spain is not strong in Spain anymore.
Sorry Donna, I'm Galician. Gallego is a real lenguage, so old as spanish or catalán. Is more similar to Portuguese. If you can visit Galicia someday you really can enjoy it.
During Franco, and he was gallego, it was a dialect. After Franco these regional divisions were made law and every region has their language now.
Worst "cruise shipper" cites in Europe
Venice
Barcelona
Dubrovnik
Copenhagen
Valletta
He's kind of a dork but I like his shows.
Sorry? What? 100 years war? When was that? Plz stop talking about history if you dont even know it
He meant the Eighty Years War. Honest mistake, I bet you aren't flawless, are you?
30 years war
The Hundred Years War was fought between England and France in the 14th and 15th century. Rick refers to the Thirty years war from 1618 to 1648.
I was very surprised to hear you talk about Bullfights and Pamplona as "fun". It's a bad culture/tradition and animal abuse. I'd expected you to advice visitors NOT to attend such events.. I used to be a fan of your travels, now I'm very disappointed. Rather show us more of ancient history, less churches, more vegetarian food and nice beaches. I'm a Scandinavian and love Spain for the climate and good vegetarian food, fruits, wine, music and hospitable people!. Catalonia hates bullfighting by the way...
cataluña tiene fiestas populares donde maltratan a los animales, como tu dices, te lo digo yo que soy finlandés como tú
You missed the beginning of his lecture, he said he goes to Spain for the architecture, including the marvellous churches, the culture, not for the beaches and for the food, which the Pig is king.