User:Garcilaso

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This is Generalife, in Granada. Isn´t it gorgeous?
This is Generalife, in Granada. Isn´t it gorgeous?
And this is El Patio de los Leones, in the Alhambra, Granada. It is worthwhile, isn´t it?
And this is El Patio de los Leones, in the Alhambra, Granada. It is worthwhile, isn´t it?
Obradoiro in Santiago de Compostela, the end of the most important route of pilgrims in Europe.
Obradoiro in Santiago de Compostela, the end of the most important route of pilgrims in Europe.

Hello! I am Garcilaso. I take my name from one of my favorite poets, Garcilaso de la Vega. I invite you to visit Spain because of its cultural heritage and because of its cities´ charm. I am going to write about Spanish History and culture, and I intend to improve articles about art, architecture, literature, music...

I also participate in Wikimedia Commons as Balbo.[1]




Correct my grammar, please!!




These are some of my favorite writers:

Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Federico García Lorca, Rosalía de Castro, José de Espronceda, Jorge Manrique, Eduardo Mendoza, Samuel Beckett, George Mikes, Rabindranath Tagore...


And Musicians:

Atahualpa Yupanqui, Francisco Guerrero, Carlos Gardel, Claudio Monteverdi, George Brassens, Isaac Albéniz, Extremoduro, Raimon, Javier Krahe, Modest Mussorgsky, Ariel Ramirez, Johannes Brahms, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Renato Carosone, El Cabrero, Franz Schubert, Amália Rodrigues, Alfonso X of Castile...

Among others... and the folklore music of all the world, from Brazil to India, not forgetting Ireland, Russia... and Spain!!


Painters, architects...

Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Goya, Fernando Zóbel, Antonio Palacios, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Il grande Bramante, Otto Wagner, Auguste Renoir, Jože Plečnik, Frank Lloyd Wright, Guinovart, Rembrandt, Ricardo Velázquez-Bosco, Vermeer, Albrecht Dürer, Millares, Juan de Villanueva, Karl Friedrich Schinkel...


Articles I have started or contributed substantially:

Spanish architecture, Court of the Lions, First Romanesque, Manuel Machado y Ruiz, Neo-Mudéjar, Synagogue of Santa María la Blanca, Monastery of Leyre, Isabelline Gothic, Kharja, Las Médulas, Spanish Renaissance, Carnival of Cádiz, Castile, Church of San Juan of Portomarín, Granada Charterhouse, Santa Cruz de la Serós, Sangüesa, Aguilar de Campoo, San Juan de Ortega, Carrión de los Condes, San Juan de la Peña, Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón, Diego Siloe. Translations: Palace of Charles V, Juan de Villanueva, Kingdom of Castile.


Other contributions: Mudéjar, Spanish Baroque, Romanesque architecture, Gothic architecture, Renaissance architecture, Spanish Renaissance, Cueva de Menga, Luis de Morales, List of Spanish language poets, Spanish poetry, Granada, Baroque, Cathedral of Toledo...



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This is Spain ...

...and this...

...but also this...

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...and this!!!

...and, of course, this! :-)
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By the way, it is here, and although some say that "África empieza en los Pirineos", it IS in Europe, and although lots of countries speak Spanish, it is definitely NOT in America ;-D
By the way, it is here, and although some say that "África empieza en los Pirineos", it IS in Europe, and although lots of countries speak Spanish, it is definitely NOT in America ;-D