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I join these kind of threads to ask, just to know wich of these cities or towns are familiar to you, or have you heard of, some of them have other ones in Latin America with the same name, but I ask about the Spanish ones.
You can add other non famous ones if they are not in the poll.
Orense, the best of the pack. They have public hot baths, nice, totally refurbished old city and almost no tourists and very low prices. Also near from the best town/city left in Spain, Ribadavia.
Caceres is an empty Medieval-Renaissance husk transformed into a tourist trap, to avoid in all instances.
Mahon, capital of Menorca, beatiful island but too many snobs, teeny boopers, tourists and "turismo de fiambrera" from Spain (tourists that come with lunch pails). To avoid: their Gin and their Cheese.
All of them except Teruel, Arrecife, Soria, Mahon, Orense and Segovia.
Teruel is not very well known abroad, they made a campagne saying "Teruel existe" some years ago, it means Teruel does exist
Arrecife is in Lanzarote, a bit far, it is more important the whole island than the town. Soria and Segovia are nearby Madrid, nice for a one day trip. And Mahon is in Menorca.
Teruel is the cheapest city in Spain, cold as hell, good food and very strange people. A famous monument called "el torico", about 10 inches in lenght.
Teruel is famous among people that know Hemingway and his chronicales of the Civil War. A very cruel battle unfolded in which the Republican forces broke the Francoist front and conquered the city for a while, many people froze to death and hunger.
All of them -and their American namesakes- but:
Teruel
Arrecife
Soria
Mahon
Orense
Leon
Almeria
Albacete
Caceres
Trivia:
There's a Toledo in the U.S
Two Guadalajaras; one in Mexico, the other in Colombia.
There's a Cuenca in Ecuador
Two Meridas; one in Venezuela, the other in Mexico.
There's a Cartagena in Colombia
Two Cordobas; one in Argentina, another in Mexico.
There's a Valencia in Venezuela
There's a Jerez de la frontera in Mexico
There's a Leon in Mexico
And also a Puebla de Zaragoza and San Sebastián in Mexico
I've heard of about 90% of them. For some of them (Cordoba, Guadalajara, Santiago, etc.) I am more familiar with their new world nemeses.
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