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Archive for August, 2008

Muñeira

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Muñeira is a typical Galician dance. Muñeira refers to the word molino (muiño in the Galician language) that means mill. Muñeira was originally danced inside and outside the mills, to pass the time during the grinding.
Its origin is not clear, but it was danced during the XV century. Someone said that Muñeira dates back to […]

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Rice, potatoes and cod

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

This a typical dish of Extremadura. It is very easy to cook but it is really delicious.
 
Ingredients
 
1/2 kg rice
1/2 kg potatoes
1/2 kg cod
2 tomatoes
1 onion
garlic
salt
oil
Chop onion, garlic and tomatoes and fry them in oil. Peel and cut the potatoes. Add rice and potatoes to the lightly fried onion, garlic and tomatoes. Add three cups of […]

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Tesis

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Tesis is a 1996 Spanish film directed by  Alejandro Amenábar. Angela (Ana Torrent) is a film student at the University of Madrid. She is doing a research for her thesis about audio-visual violence. Her professor (Miguel Picazo) helps her to find some material. She finds him dead while he is watching a videotape. Angela […]

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The city walls of Ávila

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Ávila is a lovely city in the community of Castilla y León. It is known for its great medieval defensive wall. It surrounds the old city and it is its most emblematic and spectacular monument. It is 2.500 metres long, it has 87 towers and 9 gates.
It was built in 1090. Casandro and  Florín […]

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Montsant

Friday, August 1st, 2008

The wine region Montsant DO is located in the south of the province of Tarragona. Wines have been produced in this area since the Roman age and they were praised by Pliny the Elder and Silius Italicus. Montsant wine region consists of 34vineyards, covering an area of 2.000 hectares.The soil is caharacterized by red […]

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