SpainRana Kasper
Brief Suggestions
Cultural and Geographical Differences
Stereotypes Money
– Bring cash, ATM card, and credit cards– Student ID Cards = Discounts
Advantage of Metro and Metro Passes– http://www.metromadrid.es/en/index.html– http://www.tmb.net/img/genplano.pdf
Safety Don’t go anywhere alone!
– Look out for each other Metro
– Pickpockets Strange Attention
Madrid
Plaza Mayor– Metro: Sol
El Parque Retiro– Metro: El Retiro
Museo del Prado– Metro: Atocha, Banceo de España
Food– Museo del Jamón, Menú del Día
Barcelona
Las Ramblas Cathedral
– Metro: Jaume I or Liceu Gaudi
– Casa Milà (Metro: Passeig de Gracia)
– Sagrada Familia (Metro: Verdaguer or Sagrada Familia)
Ocean– Metro: Barceloneta;
Poble Nou and Selva de Mar
Lleida
Mountain Cathedral
University of Lleida One university composed of colleges No dorms
Student Nightlife No one goes to the
bars to get drunk…– Drinks, Tapas,
Dancing, Visiting– Cañas y Tapas– Roma
(near Rectorado) Calle Mayor
