Another Flags of the world card for my collection that is really growing now..This card is from a friend who posted this for me while visiting Spain recently.Thank you so much Anne for doing this for me and enabling me to add this card for my collection..
Posted Spain 06 June : Arrived Sydney 03 July. Traveled 28 days..
Greetings from SPAIN.:Saludos desde Espana
SPAIN covers an are of some 505, 909 KM2
POPULATION : of Spain is 46, 423, 064.inhabitants.
CAPITAL CITY: of Spain is Madrid.
LOCATION of Spain is south western Europe.
UNIQUE : to Spain , The worlds biggest stamp mosaic, in 2014 200,000 stamps were used to cover a 220.28 M2 mosaic construction in Malaga.
BOOK : The most meaningful book of all time. Don Quixote written by M. Cervantes in 1605 was voted 1st. in 2002by a panel of 100 top authors.
FAMOUS: The Sagrada Familia designed by Gaudi The construction began in 1882 and is still not finished..
FESTIVALS.. Spain is known as the Land of Festivals. La Tomatina an hour long tomato food fight on the streets of Bunyol.
HISTORY : The Formation 23 January 1516 (dynastic 20th January 1479 )
FIRST MONARCH : Charles the V or Charles 1st. ( 1500-1558 ) Holy Roman Emperor , King of Spain , King of Romans , King of Italy , Archduke of Austria , Lord of the Netherlands, Duke of Burgundy
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