... street near Plaza Reial makes it an ideal pre-club dinner venue. Fil Manila A simple, homely restaurant overlooking a quiet square near Plaza de Catalonia, Fil Manila (Barcelona's only Filipino restaurant) offers excellent value for money. The choice of dishes is vast, with main courses starting at ... champagne bars) serving sparkling Catalan wine (cava) are a speciality of the city. Good places for cava include La Bodegueta del Xamp , Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 702, Xampanyeria Casablanca, Carrer Bonavista 6, and El Xampanyet, Carrer Montcada 22. The latter serves cider and tapas,...

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... last long however. On November 7, 1478 with the special order "to proceed to extirpation [rooting out] of heresy por via de fuego [by way of fire]" (qtd.in Stewart 42) the Inquisition would begin. Pedro Sarmiento, Alfonso de Spina, and Tomas de Torquemada were perhaps the three most influential men in changing the attitudes of the Spanish government and people to make laws ... ). Under this, Conversos could never hold civil or ecclesiastical offices, nor could they act as witnesses or notaries, or exercise any authority at all over Old Christians. Franciscan friar Alfonso de Spina target...

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... . Dali was a loner for most of his youth, and displayed an interest in art early in his life (7). In 1908, Dali was sent to a nearby public school named Escuela Publica de Parvulos de Figueres, where he got his early education like all other children his age. He later was sent to the Colegio Hispano-Frances ... de Imaculada Concepcion until the age of twelve (Wood 7). Dali began painting at eight years old, using techniques from various art books given to him by his father. Because of his ... ...

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... General Franco, started the Spanish Civil War by rebelling against the Second Republic. A central goal of the rebels was the destruction of left-wing organisations. Franco's fellow officer, General Queipo de Llano, instructed his subordinates on how to treat the 'Bolshevik' activist with this chilling sentence: 'I authorise you to kill him like a dog and you will be free of all ... Spain's instability, along with the lack of interference from powers such as Britain and France.. In January of 1930 resignation was forced upon the dictator at that time, Miguel Primo de Rivera, and shortly t...

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... political influence than ever, even though the team itself is technically less political and more cultural. The Catalan's having been using the games of Barca, whose team motto is "Mes de un Club", as the stage for their political cry for true democracy in Spain, and so far the world has been watching. Before one can understand the cultural ties FC ... ...

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... a large benefit to the Spaniards. One occurrence of luck happened on Cortés' first landing, on the island of Cozumel. There he found a shipwrecked Spaniard from an earlier expedition, Jeronimo de Aguilar. Cortés commissioned him to join the expedition to serve as a translator between his native language, Spanish, and his adopted language, Mayan. The second occurrence, which gave even greater ... ...

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... southern part of the New World as far as the Pacific Ocean, the French friars, who had arrived in Canada in 1615, at the behest of the French explorer Samuel de Champlain, set up missions throughout the north. The supreme government of the order is vested in an elective general, resident at the General Motherhouse, in Rome. Subordinate are the provincials ... ...

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... in the early stages of the war was tackled with, but the Nationalist violence was part of a big plot to spread seeds of terror throughout the country. According to the text, it is not exactly estimated as to how many people were actually massacred on both sides, but the figures were much higher than was anticipated and one has to remember ... ...

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... most societies that have instituted a practice of slavery, the labor force in question was set to agrarian tasks, which were profit-producing industries. As you will find in the following text, this is not the standard for Islamic slavery, but rather the general exception. Now that we have a basic setting for the uses and meanings of the term "slavery", let us ... ...

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