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Spain
Country & Tourist Information - Spain
Tourist info for your travel to Spain, how to travel
to Spain, directions, what to visit, recreation guide,
maps, street directory, street map, hotels, public transports,
what to see, where to eat, history, art, festivals and
relevant dates and events.
Explore
the Spain landscape with a Camper, Caravanas, Campervan
or Motorhome from one of the above Spain Camper hire
companies. With a Recreational Vehicle hire, you have
the complete freedom to discover the Spain Countryside
at your own pace with no strict timetables or hotel check
ins.
Stop
when and where you want to ! Have the convenience of
storage space where you can take all the essential items
that you require for your family vacation up in the mountains
or alongside a river or down on the beach.
Create
life time memories with a Spain self drive camper rental.
Experience the adventure of the open road with your Spain
Camper Rental and enjoy great value for money (especially
for families) with being able to prepare your own meals
plus also the bonus of spending quality time with the
family.
Facts
about Spain
Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: España, Reino
de España), is a country located in Southern Europe, with two
small exclaves in North Africa (both bordering Morocco). The mainland
of Spain is bounded on the south and east by Mediterranean Sea (containing
the Balearic Islands), on the north by the Bay of Biscay and on the
west by the Atlantic Ocean (containing the Canary Islands off the African
coast). Spain shares land borders with Portugal, France, Andorra, Gibraltar
and Morocco. It is the largest of three sovereign states that make
up the Iberian Peninsula —the others being Portugal and Andorra.
Different
cultures have settled in the area of modern Spain, such
as the Celts, Iberians, Romans, Visigoths, and Moors.
For just over five centuries, during the Middle Ages,
large areas were under the control of Islamic rulers,
a fragment of which survived as late as 1492, when the
Christian kingdoms of Castile and Aragón completed
the 770 years long process of driving the Moors out.
That same year, Christopher Columbus reached the New
World, leading to the creation of the world-wide Spanish
Empire. Spain became the most powerful country in Europe,
but continued wars and other problems gradually reduced
Spain to a diminished status. The 20th century was dominated
in the middle years by the Franco dictatorship; with
the dawn of a stable democracy in 1978, and having joined
what is now known as the European Union in 1986, Spain
has enjoyed an economic and cultural renaissance.
There
are a number of hypotheses as to the origin of the Roman
name "Hispania", the root of the Spanish name
España and the English name Spain.
Spain
is a democracy which is organized as a parliamentary
monarchy. It is a developed country with the eighth-largest
economy in the world
Climate
Spain's climate is determined by its unusual world position,
on the south western edge of Eurasia and just 13.4 kilometres from
Africa at its narrowest point, with an ocean to the west and a sea
to the east, and by its continental land mass and high mountainous
terrain, producing a mosaic of climates, the most varied in Europe.
Weather presenters here often have a lot to fit in their two minutes
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