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Information about Spain

With Spain, an idiomatic barrier does not exist, for which any Colombian student can aspire to study all kinds of programs, from pregrade to postgraduate courses. Due to your foreign invasions, in particular the Roman and Arabic, the architectural and cultural diversity of Spain has no comparison. Madrid, cradle of the worldwide famous Museum of Prado , enjoys a spectacular night life, a nourished day market and innumerable places to visit and to enjoy. It is necessary to mention its coastal area in the Mediterranean , one of many favorite destinations for turist all around the world during the summer. Connected by diverse routes with its nearby European countries by all existing means of transportation, including the fastest passengers train in Europe, it allows its the students to move rapidly around Europe.

GEOGRAPHY

Spain occupies 25th of the Iberian peninsula, the archipelagoes of Balearics and of the Canaries, the best rain sceneries, the African squares of Cueta and Melilla and several islands opposite to the coast of Morocco. The remaining of the Iberian peninsula includes Portugal; the border Northwest of Spain is with France, because of the Mount Pyrenees. More than the half of the peninsula is constituted by the central plateau, semiarid region where castilla is placed . The Sierra Morena borders on these plateaus to the South, to the East of the Castilian plateau him is Iberian system and to the North the Cantabrian Mountain range. On the South, next to Mediterranean , is covered with snow . The highest point of Spain is the Peak of Teide or Tenerife (3,718 m), placed in the island of Tenerife, archipelago of the Canaries.

Climate

Diverse, the Cantabrian area is rainy and the plateau is dry and cold in Winter; in the Mediterranean area the winter is soft and the summers are warm. The islands have pleasant temperatures.

MADRID

For some visitors, Madrid means an appointment with the art (Prado Museum, Museum of Modern Art Reina Sofía, the Museum of Thysen, etc.); for others the attraction is purely tourist, or nightly, or business, or gastronomic... The reality is that the capital of Spain has multiple facets. It is cosmopolitan, undoubtedly, it´s active and movable - it is defines as} " The Action " in the movies of "Almodóvar" - but also it turns out to be cozy, especially if you run through the center of ther city, the medieval buildings and the narrow alleys splashed with all kinds of shops and bars, between which arise the borbonic apples of the XVII century.

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