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Dressed in the traditional costume of Spanish bullfighters, a torero stands at the ready.
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Crisscrossed over the centuries by Moroccan mercenaries, militant monks, and warring princes, Spain today recalls mostly the legacy of the Romans and the Moors. • Worth remembering is the ease with which Jews, Muslims, and Christians coexisted here for so long. • Picasso's wrenching "Guernica," Dali's unforgettable surrealist obsessions, Gaudí's unfinished Sagrada Familia in Barcelona merely hint of Spain's artistic splendors. • Its cuisine is accounted by many today as superior to that of France. • A timeless culture, endlessly renewing itself.
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