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Lipscomb, Kelly.
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914.67204 22
Publication Date
2009
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Geographically, Cataluña, the region surrounding Barcelona, is not unlike Spain as a whole. The soaring Pyrenees Mountains in the north separating Spain from France yield to the Mediterranean''s Costa Brava in the east. Were it not for the ungainly resorts that have diminished its natural beauty since the 1960s, this ""wild coast"" would be the loveliest, if not the most extreme Mediterranean coast of the peninsula. Still, its features - the dark, jagged rock outcroppings, the foreboding cliffs and the general angriness of it all - have not been completely buried in concrete, just harnessed f.
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Lipscomb, Kelly.
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914.64104 22
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2009
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The autonomous community of Madrid occupies the geographical center of Spain. With over three million people, Madrid is the bull''s-eye on this mostly dry, rolling high plain that is part of the expansive Meseta Central characterizing much of the province and the country around it. The city''s elevation, at 2,100 feet above sea level, makes it the highest European capital and the one with the most startling climatic extremes. The Sierra de Guadarrama Mountains, a great mass of granite rising in the north, is a continuation of the country''s central mountain range, the Cordillera Central. Just.
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