 Raul Raul Gonzalez Blanco was born on June 27, 1977 in Madrid, Spain. He was brought up in a modest quarter of the city, the colony of San Cristobal de los Angeles.
Biography and Career :
Raul Gonzales is a product of Atletico Madrid's youth system but was picked up by rivals Real during a financial slump at his former club. Real's coach Jorge Valdano introduced him to the starting lineup at 17, ... Date added: 21 November '07 |  Madrid Madrid is the capital of Spain, and is located in the heart of the peninsula and right in the center of the Castillian plain 646 meters above sea level, has a population of over three million. A cosmopolitan city, a business center, headquarters for the Public Administration, Government, Spanish Parliament and the home of the Spanish Royal Family, Madrid also plays a major role in both the banking ... Date added: 20 November '07 |  Barcelona Barcelona is positionned on the northeastern coast of the Iberian peninsula and the shores of the Mediterranean and is the second largest city in Spain in both size and population. It is also the capital of Catalonia, 1 of the 17 Autonomous Communities that make up Spain.
In Barcelona there are two official languages spoken: Catalan, generally spoken in all of Catalonia, and Castillian Spanish ... Date added: 27 March '06 |  Vanessa Lorenzo Vanessa Lorenzo was born on December 7, 1976 in Barcelona, Spain. She is a Spanish supermodel.
Biography and Career :
She is measuring a mere 5' 7". Vanessa Lorenzo can be classified as a petite model. Born under the sign of Capricorn, Vanessa Lorenzo started modeling when she was ten years old.
She left Spain for Paris, at the age of 17 where a local modeling agency thought her figure a ... Date added: 21 November '07 |  Valencia Valencia is a medium-sized port city (the third largest city in Spain) and industrial area on the Costa del Azahar in Spain. It is the capital of the Autonomous Community of Valencia and the province of Valencia. Population of the city of Valencia proper was 796,549 as of 2005 estimates. Population of the urban area was 1,012,000 as of 2000 estimates. Population of the metropolitan area (urban are ... Date added: 03 May '06 |  Almudena Fernandez Almudena Fernandez was born on January 1, 1977 in Benavente, Spain. She is a Spanish supermodel.
Biography and Career :
She moved to Madrid with her family when she was a young girl.
A typical childhood replete with a love-filled home preceded her assent to the top of the modeling world.
Just as she was completing high school, however, the normalcy of that childhood would end.
Alo ... Date added: 30 April '08 |  Zaragoza Zaragoza is the capital city of the autonomous region and former kingdom of Aragon in Spain, and is located on the river Ebro, and its tributaries the Huerva and Gallego, near the centre of the region, in a great valley with a variety of landscapes, ranging from desert (Los Monegros) to thick forest, meadows and mountains.
Demographics:
According to data from Zaragoza council from 1 January ... Date added: 09 July '06 |  Malaga Malaga is a port city in Andalusia, southern Spain, on the Costa del Sol coast of the Mediterranean. Malaga's population is 558,287 (2006).
History:
Malaga was founded in the 8th century by the Phoenicians although there were archaeological indications that prehistoric man got there first. It was later under the control of the Carthaginians, but it was the Romans who converted the region int ... Date added: 10 July '06 |  Antonio Banderas Antonio Banderas (full name Jose Antonio Dominguez Banderas) was born on August 10, 1960, in Malaga, Andalusia, Spain. He is a famous Spanish actor.
Biography and Career :
His mother was a teacher and his father was a policeman. When he was a child he wanted most to become a football player, but at the age of 14, he suffered an accident and his dream was to break down. Later on, Antonio Band ... Date added: 08 January '07 |  A Future Queen by Herminne Tonita -
He sat down, unable to believe what had happened. That moment he knew his daughter would become famous all over the world, that she will be part of the Royal Family, that someday she will be the Queen of Spain.
When Maria told him that her boyfriend was Prince Philip, the grandson of the actual King of the country, he thought she was losing her minds or she was lying to ... Date added: 06 February '07 |  Oviedo, My First Spanish Love by Herminne Tonita -
Not until I had the chance to spend almost an year of my life in Spain, and more exactly in Oviedo, did I realize that it is one of the most beautiful towns in Europe and the ideal place where I would like to spend the rest of my life.
Even though it has only half the size of Craiova, Romania everything makes you feel at ease while walking in the streets, coming out from ... Date added: 13 February '07 |  Andalucia - The Land Of Light by Herminne Tonita -
The Spanish sun makes the beaches, the sea and nature glow in a special manner, which gave the place a name so meaningful: La Costa de la Luz( The Coast of Light).
The charming "Costa de la Luz" is the guarantee for a dream-like holidays and one of the jewelleries of the Spanish beaches. Here you can sun-bathe till October. The friendly, welcoming character of the inhabi ... Date added: 22 February '07 |  Oviedo is the Ideal Place Where I Would Like to Live by Cristina Nuta -
It is called Oviedo and is situated in the north of Spain, at almost thirty kilometers from the northern coast of the Cantabric Sea. I have had the opportunity to live there for one year and I could discover several of its beauties which are still present in my mind.
I consider Oviedo an ideal place for me to live from different reasons. First of all, it is not a large an ... Date added: 06 March '07 |  Ibiza Never Goes to Sleep by Herminne Tonita -
If you die for parties, you can't live without shopping and would stay a whole day on the beach, then it’s crystal clear that Ibiza is the place where you must land.
The moment you set foot on Ibiza you feel the electric atmosphere which made it famous in the world. Ibiza is part of a group of islands from the Mediterranean Sea which belong to Spain. The main town of the ... Date added: 01 May '07 |  Discover Barcelona by Cristina Nuta -
Barcelona is one of the most beautiful cities in Spain, situated in the southern coast of the peninsula, being a progressive, industrial, bourgeois and European city, but also traditional, popular, Mediterranean and of nice climate. Barcelona is the historical capital of the Catalan area and the second Spanish city after Madrid. Its seaport is one of the most important of the ... Date added: 28 June '07 |  Museums in Spain by Cristina Nuta -
One of the most famous picture galleries in the world, because of its richness, quality and the variety of its works, is the Prado Museum in Madrid.
At the beginning, in 1785, the building was projected by Charles III and his architect Villanueva, being the Museum of Natural Sciences. After the War of Independence (1808-1814), Ferdinand VII and, especially, his wife Maria ... Date added: 29 June '07 |  La Costa Brava-one of Spain's Jewels by Cristina Nuta -
La Costa Brava, with the geographical delimitations of the Mediterranean and the Pyrenees mountains, is the classical name, which corresponds to the beach of the Gerona province. The naturalness, the climate and the history seem to compete in the creation of an environment of an extraordinary attraction, which captivates all who visit the area. Its 214 kilometers of coast are ... Date added: 29 June '07 |  Spain and its Celebrations by Cristina Nuta -
Each country has along the year several celebrations which are not always similar to those of other countries. Apart from the special celebrations that one can find in Spain, there are also the traditional ones, which are celebrated in all the cultures of Christian origin.
Christmas, the celebration of Christ’s birth, is one of the most important events in Spain and is ce ... Date added: 29 June '07 |  David Ferrer David Ferrer was born on April 2, 1982 in Javea, Spain. He is a tennis player placed on the 15th position of Top 100 the year of 2007.
Biography and Career :
When he was thirteen years old he moved to Gandia and after two years to Barcelona in order to attend the Catalan Tennis Federation. He trained at Equelite for nine months. This is Juan Carlos Ferrero's Academy in Villena. 2000 is the ... Date added: 05 December '07 |  Juan Carlos Ferrero Juan Carlos Ferrero was born on February 12, 1980 in Onteniente, Spain. He is a great tennis player.
Biography and Career :
He is very talented and hard-worker and on the 8th of September 2003 he became World's Number One. He has won until now eleven titles, but any doubles title.
* He started playing tennis when he was a child and as a junior his best result came in 1998 when he reac ... Date added: 09 July '07 |  Tommy Robredo Tommy Robredo (full name Tommy Robredo Garcas) was born on May 1, 1982 in Hostalric, Spain. He is a professional tennis player.
Biography and Career :
His favorite activities are playing golf, riding his quad bike and going down to the sea. He speaks fluently Spanish, English and French. He started playing tennis at the age of five because the family moved to Olot and his father was the dire ... Date added: 23 August '07 |  Las Ketchup Las Ketchup is a Latin Grammy Award nominated 4-girl group comprised of sisters Lola, Pilar, Lucia and Rocio Munoz from Cordoba in Andalucia, Spain.They are the daughters of Juan Munoz, a flamenco guitarist known as El Tomate (The Tomato).
Biography and Career :
Juan Munoz, their father is a flamenco guitarist also known as El Tomate and they thought that "Las Ketchup" would be an appropria ... Date added: 11 March '08 |  Letizia Ortiz Letizia Ortiz (birth name Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano) was born on September 15, 1972 in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. She is the wife of Felipe, the Prince of Asturias, who is heir apparent to the Spanish throne. She is styled HRH The Princess of Asturias.
Biography and Career :
She is the daughter of Jess Ortiz, a journalist and businessman, and Paloma Rocasolano, a nurse and union official. Her p ... Date added: 24 March '08 |
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