Dennis Keefe's Spanish Page

Now, for links for Spain,
where I lived for eight beautiful years,
click on one of the carefully chosen, interesting links below.

 How about listening to Spanish Radio Cope? or Radio Exterior de España"

 Would you like to see some television from Venezuela?

 Here's today's Spanish newspaper.

Browse through a Spanish magazine.

 Feel like a Spanish book today?

 An internet Spanish grammar.

 An internet Spanish dictionary.

What is on Spanish television this week?

Facts about Spain.

 Photos from Bolivia--these are really good.

 Search the web in Spanish!

 Other useful Spanish links.

Other Cultural and Language Links

Spanish Newspapers

• El Pais Leading Spanish newspaper. Many articles in depth. An excellent resource. In Spanish.
• El Mundo. Spanish newspaper with an excellent electronic version. Take a look at the 10 best articles of the day, as recommended by their readers. In Spanish.
• Marca Spanish newspaper for sports fans. In Spanish.
• La Vanguardia. leading regional Spanish newspaper in Barcelona, Spain. In Spanish.
• Heroldo de Aragon The is the leading regional newspaper for Zaragoza, Spain. The paper currently (as of December 30, 1997) gives only an interesting, colored, scanned first page. We will have to wait a while for the electronic version. In Spanish.
• Levante This is the newspaper of Valencia, Spain, where I used to live. This paper gives a lot of local news, and is a good way to keep up with Las Fallas, the famous Valencian festival, which takes place every spring. I used to live in Valencia, often buying Levante at the news stand, and taking it to the Park of Viveros to read it. In Spanish.
• Las Provincias Another newspaper that I used to read when I lived at Dr Gomez Ferrer, 13 in Valencia, Spain, just behind the University. In Spanish.
• Les Noticies. This magazine is in one of Spain's regional languages, Asturiano or Bable. Very few articles, but they give you a lot of local color. If you speak Spanish, I think you may enjoy taking a glimpse at this periodical on line. In Asturiano!
• A Nossa Terra. This is a periodical which is in Galician (Gallego), a language which is spoken in the northwestern part of Spain. Few articles in the electronic version, but good for local viewpoint. If you can read Spanish and Portuguese, you should be able to understand a good part of this. In Galician (Gallego).
• Newspaper from Costa Rica. La Nacion has a very tastefully designed and copious website for their Costa Rican newspaper. Archives are available starting from 1995. A great site. In Spanish.
• Agencia EFE. EFE is the Spanish equivalent of the Associated Press or Reuters. This site will offer you some last minute up-to-date headlines, but you will have to subscribe to get the full service.

  Spanish Magazines

• Epoca. Spanish weekly with commentary on political happenings in Spain, Europe and the rest of the world. Interesting commentary. In Spanish.
• Diez Minutos. Online version of the Spanish magazine with many photos of high-society happenings. Not much information yet in comparison with the regular paper edition. In Spanish.

  Spanish Radio

• Radio Nacional de España. This is Spain's public broadcasting radio network. As of January 1998, this is little useful information on the net, but in the future I hope that you will be able to get a lot of useful news and cultural items from the Radio Nacional. In Spanish.
• RadioCable en Internet. One of Microsoft's Best of the Web, this site is the first radio in Spain set up especially for the Internet. In Spanish.
• Cadena SER Live radio, plus headline news downloads for broadcasts during the day. Cadena SER is one of Spain's leading private radio stations. Heard throughout Spain. In Spanish.
• Onda Cero Another national news radio station of Spain. Current transfer speed is 8.0 Kbps. In Spanish.

  Spanish Cuisine

• Spanish Cuisine. This site is new, and has very few recipes; in fact, I found only 2. But being a fan of Spanish Cooking (special thanks to Celia and the Medranos in Madrid!) I will leave this site on my page with hopes that more Spanish cooks will send in their recipes! In Spanish.
• Turron 1880 (nougat) In Spain during the Christmas holiday season, the Spanish traditionally eat special desserts. Here is one of my favorites: turron. In Spanish
• Ham Bar The is a great place to have a sandwich in Madrid. Go in and see the hundreds of hams hanging from the ceiling and everywhere else. Buy one of those, too. It all tastes great, and now they have a website. In Spanish

  Spanish Government

• El Ayuntamiento de Madrid. In Spanish.
• El Congreso de los Diputados. In Spanish.
• Boletín Oficial del Estado. Spain's publication of its version of the Congressional Record, official publications, legal notices and the like. In Spanish.

  Spanish Political Parties

• El Partido Popular (PP). One of Spain's principal political parties. In Spanish.
• PSOE, Spain's socialist party. Here is the main website for the political party that governed Spain under Felipe Gonzalez from the early 1980's to mid 90's. In Spanish.
• Izquierda Unida. The coalition of Spain's leftist parties. In Spanish.
• The Falange Spain's rightwing party, today very small. In Spanish.

  Spanish Music

• Spanish Songs. Here is a useful list of the words of a number of Spanish albums: Ana Belen, Victor Manuel, the Group Mecano, etc. In Spanish.
• Villancicos Spanish Christmas carols with lyrics, and in many cases, music in Midi files. In Spanish.
• Zarzuela. History and explanations of Spanish light opera. You may listen to some of the selections if you can handle WAV formats. One of my favorite kinds of music. In Spanish.

  Spanish Art and Museums

• The Prado. Visit the world famous Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. It would be nice if the Prado would put more of their art collection on the Internet, but in the meantime, at least we have this limited site. In Spanish and English.
• Museo Thyssen. Famous collection recently relocated to Madrid. Next to the Prado Museum. In Spanish.
• Francisco Goya, Spanish painter. Take a look at a dozen or so of Goya's most famous paintings, along with his biography in this short but well-done site. In Spanish and English.

  Spanish Transportation

• RENFE. Here is the website of the Spanish National Railway System. Find out the train schedules for all of Spains cities and towns. Prices will be added later. Buen viaje. In Spanish and English.
• Spanish Airports. AENA. As of January 1998, the best way to descibe this ambitious website is "under construction." But you may want to come back later. In Spanish.

  Spanish Festivals

• Las Fallas. Now you can see what this unique Spanish festival is like. Each year the people of the city of Valencia and surrounding areas build hundreds of statues all around the town. Then at midnight they burn them all but one! In Spanish.
• Fiesta of Moros and Cristianos. One of Spain's many festivals in Villajoyosa of the province of Alicante. Take a look at this website and start to find out why I love Spain. In Spanish, English, French, and German.

  Bullfighting

• Bullfighting. 6 Toros 6, an electronic version of a magazine for bullfight aficionados. It has a number of photos, historical items, statistics on bullfighting, and an opinion page. In Spanish.
• Bullfighting. Articles by the Association Cultural Taurina. Their magazine is certainly plain vanilla in style, but has reams of content. In Spanish.

  Spanish Search Engines

• Ole. Another Spanish search engine for the main languages of the Iberian Peninsula, including Spanish, Catalan, Gallego, Basque, Portugues, and even Bable (Asturiano). In Spanish.
• Ozu. Another Spanish search engine. In Spanish.

  Other Spanish Sites

• Villancicos Spanish Christmas carols with lyrics, and in many cases, music in Midi files. In Spanish.
• United Nations. Come look at the United Nations at their website in Spanish. In Spanish, English, and French.
• Photos of Spain. Organized by region. Here you can get postcard-like photos of many of Spains principle monuments such as the Prado, El Escorial, and many others. A dozen or so photos for each major city. Good reference source for the teacher. In Spanish, English and German.
• Spanish Weather Bureau. A nice site packed with a lot of information. Here is where you can go to find out average temperatures and precipitation for various cities in Spain. In Spanish.
• Spain's Yellow Pages. Currently the Páginas Amarillas just gives basic information like address and telephone number. Hopefully the phone company will start to make use of the Web in the near future. In Spanish.
• More photos from Spain. From the Lonely Planet. Mostly architectural. In English.
• Don Quijote. Read the online edition of Don Quijote by Cervantes. I read Don Quijote in its 1982 in Madrid, Spain. It was a gift of the Esperanto Club of Valencia. (I have to confess: though I am a fluent speaker of Spanish, I read Quijote in Esperanto! Still enjoyed it immensely! In Spanish.
• Biblioteca Nacional of Spain. Browse around Spain's national library. Not a very large site, but growing. In Spanish.
• Anaya Spanish Dictionary. I love this page. Go to the part that says Diccionarios and from there you can search any Spanish word starting with x, ending with x, or containing x. I typed in containing rr and received the list, with definitions of hundreds of words containing rr, including abejorro, abigarrado, aburrido, acatarrarse, achicharrar and all the way up to zorruno. Try it! In Spanish.
• What's Happening in Madrid. Cinema, theater, concerts, art expositions--it is all here in this handy guide of things to do and see in Madrid. Also gives prices. Attractively arranged, but hopefully in the future they will add more in-depth information, such as review links and others. In Spanish.
• Spanish Red Cross. The Red Cross in Spain has developed an attractive website with information on their activities in the Iberian Peninsula. Don't miss their magazine on Spanish Red Cross activities. In Spanish.
• The Madrid Stock Exchange. Spain's principle stock exchange is now on the internet. In Spanish.
• The Spanish Beatles Page. This excellent page was written by Enrique Cabrera of Valencia, Spain. When I lived and taught English in Valencia from 1982 to 1986, Enrique was my student (along with his dad in another class) of English. You may wish to try out Enrique's English version as well. In Spanish.
• Sportec. If you would like to know more about sports in Spain, you have come to the right place. This site is excellent. Not only are graphics of exceptional quality, the coverage of sport topics is in depth. I wish I had access to this site when I lived in Spain! I would have learned Spanish much more quickly, and understood Spanish sport culture much better. In Spanish.
• Universities in Spain. In Spanish.
• The Distance between two Spanish Telephones. In Spanish.

  Dead Links -- hoping they will come back!

• Las Noticias This is the newspaper of Valencia, Spain, where I used to live. The electronic version is a long way from the paper one, but it does give you a special glimpse of the Mediterranean side of the Spanish. In Spanish.

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