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Hi! Heve you ever been in Spain? It's a incredible country!!! I live in Galicia on the north west of Spain. This is the best state/province in Spain. Because it's all mountains and woods!! It's awesome!!.
There are the pics. Later I'll post much more. Enjoy!:D
I've been to the south of Spain, it was crazily hot, about 42 degrees celcius. I know the north is different, very green and pretty. I'd like to go to Barcelona one day.
I've been to the south of Spain, it was crazily hot, about 42 degrees celcius. I know the north is different, very green and pretty. I'd like to go to Barcelona one day.
Yeah! I invited you to visit it! It's really beautiful.
In the north of Spain, like you see in the photos, it's very very green and rainy!! It rains a lot! All around Spain has forest but Galicia is more...i can't explain. It's all woods, pretty woods. And mountains a lot! Some villages are in the mountains down!! It's pretty.
Later, I post more pics, and if I have time I'll post some of the rest of Spain.
Here more pics from Galicia!We have a lot of sculptures as you see here...:)
dreamer
02-29-2008, 2:12pm
thanks Navi
Paul,those photos were taken by me when I was to barcelona last year. It's beautiful but I think,(in my opinion) a bit dirty city...:rolleyes:but it's good really:] I add one photo of the food because in Spain the food is really really good!!! I don't know in others countries...but in Spain....mmm...:D with the "paella" and the seafood....
SevenUp!
02-29-2008, 5:58pm
Thanks for sharing the pictures Navi, they are great. Beautiful place.
The third one is making me hungry though:D
I'll put more pics of Barcelone later. I have to search them in my personal albums!
Yes!! The third one of the food is very hungry photo!!! :)
SevenUp!
02-29-2008, 6:23pm
Okay then, looking forward to those. :up:
Those photos are in Barcelona: the "Gaudi's House", "La Rambla" street, and the olympic city is the last one.
:D
I don't know how to post more than 5 pics, so I have to go five by five.:(
Those pics are in the "PARC DE LA CIUTADELLA". It's a huge park with differents types of plants and animals. Like in a zoo. ;)
And the last one of this pics, it's the famous Arc of Triunph of Barcelona. It's very big, too.:eek:
The next pictures are in the "ANILLO OLÍMPICO". It's like ...the city of the games or the sports.
The 3rd and the 5th pics is the famous pabillion "PALAU SANT JORDI". Where there are normally concerts and competitions.:D:D
SevenUp!
02-29-2008, 7:25pm
That's a huge place!!
Awesome:D
That's are about the "TORRE AGBAR". Is the biggest tower in Barcelona. It can see from everywhere in the city. It's espectaculaaaar! And it's more at night. If you go to Barcelona you have to visit it!! :]
That's a huge place!!
Awesome:D
Yeah!! It is!! That's why I can't put aaallll my photos!:p I have a lot of them. I visited around Spain a lot of times!:funny: And I love photography so..:eek:..I have a lot. Imagine...:D
There is the "MONTJUIC". It's like a small city, not a village, but tiny city. It's in the centre of the capital and it's wonderful. But it has a lot of stairs!! I advice you!! But it's worth to up them!
Thanks for all these lovely pictures. :)
Here, The port and the beach, with some estatues made in the sand (really beautiful,I think). I was seeing how made one of the statues and it was made in 4 hours and a half!!!:shocked: Incredible!! I can't believe it and I had to see it.:shocked: In summer the beach is aaalways full!! It hasn't have any hole to sunbathe! :funny:Well, I think it happen in every beaches in the world..
SevenUp!
02-29-2008, 7:59pm
That's are about the "TORRE AGBAR". Is the biggest tower in Barcelona. It can see from everywhere in the city. It's espectaculaaaar! And it's more at night. If you go to Barcelona you have to visit it!! :]
Beautiful....I'll keep that in mind if I ever get there.
There is the "MONTJUIC". It's like a small city, not a village, but tiny city. It's in the centre of the capital and it's wonderful.
Okay, MONTJUIC is on the list now:D
But it has a lot of stairs!! I advice you!!
Okay, MONTJUIC is off the list now:p
But it's worth to up them!
Okay, MONTJUIC is back on the list now:D
The "COSTA BRAVA" is in Girona, near Barcelona, where we have the best landscape. You can choose the beach, and if you get bored of that, you can go to the mountains:funny:
There are both in the same place so you can choose where do you ike to stay.;) The last two photographs are the most photographied in Spain!! The sunflowers! They're pretty, isn't they?:smirk: They're all around Spain. I don't know if in others countries they exist.:huh:
Beautiful....I'll keep that in mind if I ever get there.
Okay, MONTJUIC is on the list now:D
Okay, MONTJUIC is off the list now:p
Okay, MONTJUIC is back on the list now:D
Jajajajaja. :funny: Good notes!!!
SevenUp!
02-29-2008, 8:09pm
You can find sunflowers here too, but those ones are very pretty:]
And the last pictures I have of Barcelona are those.:(
They're my favourites!! Because it's a monastery "SAN PERE DE RODES".I don't like very much the arquitecture and the churchs and monasteries,but this has something special. I don't know why!! It maybe is because it has secret passages :eek: ...
Well,we arrive to the final of our visit trip of Barcelona!! I hope you like it! Now...Paul...Everything's all ready to the trip?? Are you sure to go to Barcelona?Jajaja... (joking) Of course you're ready! You've been ready before this "phototrip". Jejeje...
I have a good time post for you all this pics for all f you.. Thanks!
Tomorrow I'll post some images of another city of Spain. I'll see you tomorrow?? :) Bye!
SevenUp!
02-29-2008, 8:55pm
Thanks for all the wonderful pictures Navi! :great:
Tomorrow I'll post some images of another city of Spain. I'll see you tomorrow?? :) Bye!
That's great....I may not be here to see them at that point, but I'll have a look when I get back. :)
uniquestar
02-29-2008, 10:06pm
Woooooooooooowwwwwww those are graet pics! thanks for sharing them.
spain is one of the great places in the world!
uniquestar
02-29-2008, 10:23pm
I add one photo of the food because in Spain the food is really really good!!! I don't know in others countries...but in Spain....mmm...:D with the "paella" and the seafood....
mmmmmmmmmm.....Food!!!:D sounds good!:D
Thanks for all the great pics
Hi! Well, those photos were taken by me too, in "A Coruña". One province of Galicia. It's really pretty city. Because it has all you like. You can go to the beach or to the mountains. The, you can visit all the museums. There are a lot of science museums. And the last picture there is the "Torre de Hércules". It's a tower which it was made by the romans and it's in perfect state!:]
SevenUp!
03-01-2008, 2:05pm
Hi! Well, those photos were taken by me too, in "A Coruña". One province of Galicia. It's really pretty city. Because it has all you like. You can go to the beach or to the mountains. The, you can visit all the museums. There are a lot of science museums. And the last picture there is the "Torre de Hércules". It's a tower which it was made by the romans and it's in perfect state!:]
Awesome, I'm still here to see these ones too:]
uniquestar
03-04-2008, 2:25am
great pics! thanks for sharing..
Ey! Hi! Sorry to not posting those days before but I had term exams!! Sorry:)
Hi guys!! Sorry to not posting those days! But I had my exams!!:) But now I finished them so....Yuju......!:):):)
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SevenUp!
03-08-2008, 12:20am
Ey! Hi! Sorry to not posting those days before but I had term exams!! Sorry:)
Glad you're back, and even better with more great pictures! :D
Hope the exams went well for you. :)
Glad you're back, and even better with more great pictures! :D
Hope the exams went well for you. :)
:hugs:Well, thank you!:funny: The exams were great:D...I think:rolleyes:
This weekend I can't post anything:( becoz I 'm going to my village and there I don't have my computer:smirk:! I'll see you on sunday!:huh:
Bye!:love:
Shannia
06-10-2008, 2:01pm
You should post some pictures of Santiago de Compostela, if you can Navi. One of the most charming cities in Spain in my opinion. ;)
dreamer
06-10-2008, 5:30pm
Bibi thank you so much for all of this!
Groucho
06-10-2008, 7:50pm
Bibi, enjoyed your pictures. I hope you have more to share from your recent vacation.
Annette
06-11-2008, 1:18pm
Great pictures:D:D
I've been to Spain a few times...I even spend a semester in Alicante. I miss Spain, especially the really nice and hot summer weather:D
You should post some pictures of Santiago de Compostela, if you can Navi. One of the most charming cities in Spain in my opinion. ;)
Yeah of course i can! :) i love santiago de compostela!! I have some many pics of it :) Now i can't post them cause i'm in a trip but in a week more or less i'll post them ;)
In my opinion, the most charming city in Spain is mine(Ourense, of course :D) and Salamanca.
Great pictures:D:D
I've been to Spain a few times...I even spend a semester in Alicante. I miss Spain, especially the really nice and hot summer weather:D
Thanks Annette :)
Spain is a really nice place to relax in your holiday time :D
Alicante is so hot. Yesterday i was there!!!:funny:
But the city with the best weather is Galicia :) Always sun but sometimes rain a lot for a week full:( But when it rains it's so hot too ;)
Nosotros somos hermanos lol .. I'm from the north of Portugal 40min from Galiza. In galicia i've been in Vigo, Pontevedra, Corunha, Santiago, Orense, Tui e Cambados..
Nosotros somos hermanos lol .. I'm from the north of Portugal 40min from Galiza. In galicia i've been in Vigo, Pontevedra, Corunha, Santiago, Orense, Tui e Cambados..
de verdade?? wow! que bien :) I was to Portugal twice, i think. :rolleyes:
The best place i saw of it it's a ciudad dos pequeninhos :D i was 7years old and it was so funny!! i'd like to come back there again i have no problem lol
and the other place i went in Portugal was Oportoa and Praga :p I loove both :)
You should post some pictures of Santiago de Compostela, if you can Navi. One of the most charming cities in Spain in my opinion. ;)
Here are some pics of Santiago de Compostela :) Hope you like them , they are so amazing :D some were very difficult to take clearly but i think they are good ;) i have more of Santiago , not only the cathedral :p, but i'm uploading them :) tomorrow i'll post them if i can :D
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mike twain
07-05-2008, 11:37am
Beautiful night pics !! thank you bibiiiiiiiii
tonyme
07-05-2008, 11:39am
Wow those are some beautiful pics! Thanks for sharing
:hugs: You're welcome Andrew, Michel and Tony!!! :love:
dreamer
07-05-2008, 4:38pm
so pretty Bibi
de verdade?? wow! que bien :) I was to Portugal twice, i think. :rolleyes:
The best place i saw of it it's a ciudad dos pequeninhos :D i was 7years old and it was so funny!! i'd like to come back there again i have no problem lol
and the other place i went in Portugal was Oportoa and Praga :p I loove both :)
You have been in Portugal dos pequeninos em Coimbra , Porto e Braga
Shannia
07-06-2008, 1:10pm
That´s a better advertising for Galicia :love:
Thanks Shannia(i don't know your name, sorry) :)
Galicia is very beautiful also in winter with the cold ;)
Groucho
07-07-2008, 1:52am
Those are the great night photos. Thanks Bibi for showing them.
July 25 is the day of Galicia, wonderful day of this magic land.
At 12 p.m. of this day there celebrates an act in which the cathedral of Santiago is the scene of a spectacle of light, color and sound without equally, that is continued by fervor by thousands of persons.
Here are some pics about that day and later i'll post more :)
enjoy them :D
thanks Andrew:hugs: i'm glad i'm back and i'd like to post more when i upload all my pics :)
mike twain
07-28-2008, 3:02pm
great place !! thnak you bibi for these amazing pics !!
obviously that last festivity is from a big tradition that still continue from some years ago :D
That tradition is called: Camino de Santiago de Compostela.
what is, where is the Camino of Santiago de Compostela??
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The Way of St. James or St. James' Way (Galician O camiño de Santiago, Spanish name, El Camino de Santiago), is the pilgrimage to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where legend has it that the remains of the apostle, Saint James the Great, are buried.
A major Christian pilgrimage route
The Way of St James has existed for over a thousand years. It was one of the most important Christian pilgrimages during medieval times. It was considered one of three pilgrimages on which a plenary indulgence could be earned the others are the Via Francigena to Rome and the pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Legend holds that St. James's remains were carried by boat from Jerusalem to northern Spain where they were buried on the site of what is now the city of Santiago de Compostela. There are some, however, who claim that the bodily remains at Santiago belong to Priscillian, the fourth-century Galician leader of an ascetic Christian sect, Priscillianism, who was one of the first Christian heretics to be executed.
There is not a single route; the Way can take one of any number of pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela. However a few of the routes are considered main ones. Santiago is such an important pilgrimage destination because it is considered the burial site of the apostle, James the Great. During the Middle Ages, the route was highly travelled. However, the Black Plague, the Protestant Reformation and political unrest in 16th- century Europe resulted in its decline. By the 1980s, only a few pilgrims arrived in Santiago annually. However, since then, the route has attracted a growing number of modern-day pilgrims from around the globe. The route was declared the first European Cultural Route by the Council of Europe in October 1987; it was also named one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites in 1993.
The significance of the scallop symbol
The scallop shell, typically found on the shores in Galicia, has long been the symbol of the Camino de Santiago. Over the centuries the scallop shell has taken on mythical, metaphorical and practical meaning.
There are different accounts of the mythical origin of the symbol. Which account is taken depends on who is telling the story. Two versions of the most common myth are:
James the Greater, the brother of John, was killed in Jerusalem for his convictions about his brother. James had spent some time preaching on the Iberian Peninsula.
1. (version 1) After James' death, his disciples shipped his body to the Iberian Peninsula to be buried in what is now Santiago. Off the coast of Spain a heavy storm hit the ship, and the body was lost to the ocean. After some time, however, the body washed ashore undamaged, covered in scallops.
2. (version 2) After James' death his body was mysteriously transported by a ship with no crew back to the Iberian Peninsula to be buried in what is now Santiago. As James' ship approached land, a wedding was taking place on the shore. The young bridegroom was on horseback, and on seeing the ship approaching, his horse got spooked, and the horse and rider plunged into the sea. Through miraculous intervention, the horse and rider emerged from the water alive, covered in seashells.
Besides being the mythical symbol, the scallop shell also acts as a metaphor. The grooves in the shell, which come together at a single point, represent the various routes pilgrims traveled, eventually arriving at a single destination: the tomb of Saint James in Santiago de Compostela. The scallop shell is also a metaphor for the pilgrim. As the waves of the ocean wash scallop shells up on the shores of Galicia, God's hand also guided the pilgrims to Santiago.
The scallop shell served practical purposes for pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago as well. The shell was the right size for gathering water to drink or for eating out of as a makeshift bowl. Also, because the scallop shell is native to the shores of Galicia, the shell functioned as proof of completion. By having a scallop shell, a pilgrim could almost certainly prove that he or she had finished the pilgrimage and had actually seen the "end of the world" which at that point in history was the Western coast of Spain.
The reference to St. James rescuing a "knight covered in scallops" is therefore a reference to St. James healing, or resurrecting, a dying (setting sun) knight. Note also that the knight obviously would have had to be "under the waters of death" for quite some time for shellfish to have grown over him. Similarly, the notion of the "Sea of Darkness" (Atlantic Ocean) disgorging St. James' body, so that his relics are (allegedly) buried at Santiago de Compostella on the coast, is itself a metaphor for "rising up out of Death", that is, resurrection.
The pilgrim's staff is a walking stick used by pilgrims to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Generally, the stick has a hook on it so that something may be hung from it. The walking stick sometimes has a cross piece on it.
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The modern-day pilgrimage
Today tens of thousands of Christian pilgrims and other travellers set out each year from their front doorstep, or popular starting points across Europe, to make their way to Santiago de Compostela. Most travel by foot, some by bicycle, and a few travel as some of their medieval counterparts did, on horseback or by donkey (for example, the British author and humorist Tim Moore). In addition to people undertaking a religious pilgrimage, there are many travellers and hikers who walk the route for non-religious reasons: travel, sport, or simply the challenge of weeks of walking in a foreign land. Also, many consider the experience a spiritual adventure to remove themselves from the bustle of modern life. It acts as a retreat for many modern "pilgrims".
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Routes to Santiago
Pilgrims on the Way of St. James walk for weeks or months to visit the city of Santiago de Compostela. They can follow many routes (any path to Santiago is a pilgrim's path) but the most popular route is the French Way or Camino Francés; the most common starting points are cities in Spain situated along this route. Historically, most of the pilgrims came from France, due to the Codex Calixtinus. For this reason, the Spanish consider the Pyrenees the starting point. Common starting points along the French border are Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port or Somport on the French side of the Pyrenees and Roncesvalles or Jaca on the Spanish side.
However, many pilgrims begin further afield, in one of the four French towns which are common and traditional starting points: Le Puy, Vézelay, Arles and Tours. Cluny, site of the celebrated medieval abbey, was another important rallying point for pilgrims, and, in 2002, it was integrated into the official European pilgrimage route linking Vézelay and Le Puy. Some pilgrims start from even further away, though their routes will often pass through one of the four French towns mentioned. Some Europeans begin their pilgrimage from the very doorstep of their homes just as their medieval counterparts did hundreds of years ago.
Pilgrims coming from Northern and Eastern Europe historically passed through Switzerland. Today the historic route has been restored, beginning at the Lake of Constance and ending in Geneva at the French border. The route passes by three traditional pilgrimage places, Einsiedeln, Flüeli Ranft, and the Caves of Saint Beatus. The path also passes through historic cities including St. Gallen, Lucerne, Schwyz, Interlaken, Thun, Fribourg and Lausanne.
Pilgrims' accommodation
In Spain and southern France, pilgrim's hostels dot the common routes providing overnight accommodation for recognized pilgrims, those who hold a credencial. In Spain this type of accommodation is called a refugio or an albergue, both of which are similar to youth hostels or hostelries in the French system of Gîtes d'étape; beds are in dormitories, and they usually cost between three and seven Euros per night, but a few operate on voluntary donations and are known as donativos. Pilgrims are usually limited to one night's accommodation.
These hostels may be run by the local parish, the local council, private owners, or pilgrims' associations. Occasionally these refugios are located in monasteries, such as the one in Samos, Spain, run by monks or the one in Santiago de Compostela.
The Pilgrim's passport
Most pilgrims have a document called the credencial, which they have purchased for a few euros through a Spanish tourist agency or their local church, depending on their starting location. The credencial is a pass which allows (sometimes free) overnight accommodation in refugios. Also known as the "Pilgrim's passport", the credencial is stamped with the official St. James stamp of each town or refugio at which the pilgrim has stayed. It provides walking pilgrims with a record of where they ate or slept, but also serves as proof to the Pilgrim's office in Santiago that the journey is accomplished according to an official route. The credencial is available at refugios, tourist offices, some local parish houses, and outside Spain, through the national St. James organisation of that country. The stamped credencial is also necessary if the pilgrim wants to obtain a Compostela, a certificate of completion of the pilgrimage.
Most often the stamp can be obtained in the refugio, Cathedral or local church. If the church is closed, the town hall or office of tourism can provide a stamp, as well as nearby youth hostels or private St. James addresses. Outside Spain, the stamp can be associated with somewhat of a ceremony, where the stamper and the pilgrim can share information. As the pilgrimage approaches Santiago however, the increased number of pilgrims cause many of the stamps in small towns to be self-service, while in the larger towns there are several options to obtain the necessary stamp.
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St. James pilgrim passport stamps in France on the Via Turenensis (Tours route) for the Chemin de St. Jacques de Compostelle. The World Heritage Sites of the Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France lists the major French towns with stamps
The pilgrimage as tourism
The Galician government seeks to make the Way into a popular tourist destination. When there is a Holy Compostellan Year (whenever July 25 falls on a Sunday; the next will be 2010) the Galician government's Xacobeo tourism campaign is unleashed once more.
The Way's name in other languages
The Way of St. James is most often referred to by the names used in the areas it passes:
* Spanish: El Camino de Santiago or simply El Camino
* Galician: O Camiño de Santiago or Ruta Xacobea
* Basque: Donejakue Bidea
* French: O Camiño de Santiago or le chemin de Saint Jacques
* Portuguese: O Caminho de Santiago
You can have more info and pictures in this link: http://www.santiago-compostela.net/en_site.html
Hope you like this "little trip" in the history of my country.
Groucho
07-28-2008, 9:22pm
Thanks Bibi for the photos and the info. I wonder if Walt Disney got his skyrockets over the castle theme from this tradition.
You're welcome :D It's a big tradition and very popular in Europe!! so i thought i was talking about it and the festivity was this last week so...:) good date to get information about it for all of you :funny:
Cowboy16
07-29-2008, 7:15am
Well...Galicia the best of Spain...:rolleyes: I think south Spain is the best region in general It has everything in 8 provinces, Andalucía . And of course Sevilla is the most beautiful of them :P
Well...Galicia the best of Spain...:rolleyes: I think south Spain is the best region in general It has everything in 8 provinces, Andalucía . And of course Sevilla is the most beautiful of them :P
i didn't say that Andalucía is bad. of course it's the most important province in Spain. But the two most provinces with more tourism is Galicia and Andalucía :D
Galicia for the green of its forest, the beaches and the food,(maybe for the festivities like St.James's Way).
Andalucía for the weather, the religious tradition, aldo the beaches and food of course! :)
Another great part of Spain is Salamanca. I think is magic and very touristic too for the University and the great informaton it has about the history of Spain, the conquists and all of that :)
Hi again! i know that i forgot this thread but i was taken phtographs for that! :)
here are some pics of my city ;)
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There is a very popular saying to describe the most emblematic monuments of the city:
(in Galician Language):
Tres cousas hai en Ourense,
que non as hai en España,
o Santo Cristo, a Ponte Romana,
e as Burgas fervendo auga.
Translation:
(Three things are in Ourense
that them does not exist in Spain,
the Saint Christ, the Roman Bridge
and the Burgas boiling waters down.)
A Chavasqueira:
His spring, which provides wealth to three external swimming pools in waterfall with temperatures of 38°C to 41°C, appears inside a construction of granite named Templarium (with terma interior, cold swimming pool of contrast and a future Sudarium). Known from ancient, they were naming " Caldas do Bispo ", for the bishop who sent them to condition. The architectural set, as a former Japanese temple, is realized in wood and is completed with in garden of stone inspired by the thousand-year-old Zen culture.
Both suggestions, with approximate temperatures of 64 and 58ªC, offer waters bicarbonatadas sodium, fluoradas, litíniticas and sulfurated of average mineralization, ideal in the treatment of rheumatism, arthritis or asthma and to improve the respiratory and digestive functioning of the devices. Today, the playful - preventive termalismo constitutes a form healthy and entertained for the whole family, of combining leisure and health.
http://www.turismourense.com/temas/turismourense_08/ofertasing/gfx/01_termalismo.jpg
Seems relaxing.
yeahhh it's very relax!! :D
Groucho
09-26-2008, 9:26pm
What a beautiful city, cool place to live. Thank you very much.
I have more new pictures but i'm uploading them so when i finish i'll post them :D
uniquestar
09-30-2008, 4:36am
You have a Karabao there also in Spain, Viviana?
By the way, those are great pics! :):up:
You have a Karabao there also in Spain, Viviana?
By the way, those are great pics! :):up:
Thanks Amie :)
:huh:mmm...what is a karabao?? sorry for my lack of culture :smirk::smirk:
uniquestar
09-30-2008, 10:24pm
You're welcome. Karabao is an Animal. It looks like in that Animal pics you posted there in above. Is that a cow statue? or what do you called in that Animal?
That's why I'm asking you because I thought it really looks like a Karabao Animal. :D
uniquestar
09-30-2008, 10:38pm
Actually in english it spelled as a Carabao but here in Philippines it's a Karabao or Kalabao(In Tagalog Language our National Lang.). It looks like a Bufallo.
You're welcome. Karabao is an Animal. It looks like in that Animal pics you posted there in above. Is that a cow statue? or what do you called in that Animal?
That's why I'm asking you because I thought it really looks like a Karabao Animal. :D
Oh I understand now. Yes, here are that animal. We named him "Toro". They are use to play with him and then kill him, it's a very bad "play" in my opinion. Some people think it's a sport in Spain. This "sport" is very popular for turist, some foreign people come and say that the most popular about Spain are : Toros, Paella, good weather and the green forests in all the country. :)
ravshania
10-01-2008, 10:28am
:)
:) luvshania :) ravshania :)
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