Spain

Spain Map; Wikipedia image

Capital Madrid
Languages Castilian Spanish, Catalan, Galician & Basque
Currency Euro

Other Major Cities: Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia.

Spain has a rich history. Bordered by the snow capped Pyrenees in the east to the sunny beaches in the south, Spain is the second largest country in the EU. As well as the mainland, territory includes two island archipelagos, The Balearics and the Canaries, and two enclaves on the North African coast, Ceuta and Melilla.

In the capital city, Madrid, there many historical monuments. The Royal castle and Spanish museums like el Prado and Reina Sofia, which houses paintings of Velasquez, Goya, Miro and Picasso.

Links

• Spain GenWeb

• AOL Hispanic Genealogy Group

• Babel Fish Translation Tool

• Translation of Spanish Genealogical Words

• Genealogy Forum Spain

• Spanish Genealogy Forum

• Ancestry - Spain

• Magellan; List of Survivors of The First Voyage Around The World

• Baedecker's Old Guide Books - Spain & Portugal 1901

Archives

• The Basque Government Archive and Documentary Heritage Centre

The Regions

• Andalucia GenWeb

• Almeria GenWeb

• The English Cemetery at Malaga

• Aragon Genweb

• A Basque on-line Dictionary

• The Centre for Basque Studies

• The Basque Museum and Cultural Central

• Catalonia GenWeb

• Extremadura Genweb

• Maps of Murcia

• La Rioja GenWeb

• Valencia GenWeb

• Genealogy in The Canary Islands

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