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The flouncing, foot-stamping flamenco is still red hot and the fiestas wilder and more colorful than ever in Spain. Much more than a museum of tired clichés or dated folk festivals, the country binds modernity and tradition with a strutting confidence. With one of Europe’s most theatrical and turbulent histories to be explored, vivacious and fun-loving people ready to take you by the hand and a food culture that ranges from the avant-garde to the raw and unapologetic, it is impossible to not be swept up in the Spanish verve.

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Real Madrid

Even with its long held reputation for vibrant nightlife, for decades Spain's capital city was a sleeping giant, full of old art, lazy plazas, and dusty fedoras, but there’s a new energy in Madrid’s walkable streets, with an avalanche of luxury hotels, fine dining restaurants, and artisan stores. Writer Enric Pastor guides us through the new galleries, shops, modern restaurants and century-old tabernas in the city’s most exhilarating neighborhoods.

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Trace the footsteps of pilgrims along a portion of the scenic Camino de Santiago and lodge in faithfully restored accommodations as old as the trail itself.

Celebrate with the Catalans during the Calçotada Festival, where the region’s distinctive calçot–something resembling a hybrid of a spring onion and leek—are charred in masias (farm houses).

See Valencia’s Las Fallas fiesta, a parade that culminates in hundreds of giant papier-mâché effigies being set alight in honor of San José.

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Spain

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