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...It is dedicated to Cecilio Rodríguez, a chief gardener who spent his entire life working in the Retiro since joining as an apprentice aged eight....
...Among my top picks are Santa María del Naranco, in a meadow high above Oviedo, built for King Ramiro I in the mid-ninth century, and San Julián de los Prados, whose stucco walls are covered in paintings....
...The city’s great museums — the Prado, Thyssen-Bornemisza and Reina Sofía — are open, as are many smaller galleries....
...Lizette Melendez grew up in El Paso, one of the poorest cities in Texas, and was the first in her family to go to university....
...Ten years ago, Sergio Mendoza y La Orkesta were a mambo cover band, conceived as a tribute to Perez “Prez” Prado, Mendoza’s favourite childhood listening....
...[Some of the many varying accounts claim that Prado himself was present when the order was received. Prado strongly denies this.]...
...“That book is a very sought-after project,” says Lía Rodríguez, the Cuban co-producer of the Conde films....
...For many visitors to Spain, El Corte Inglés is as much a symbol of the country as Barcelona’s unfinished cathedral or Madrid’s Prado museum....
...Miguel Zugaza, director of the Prado museum in Madrid, was quoted as calling the ceiling a very important work of art for the 21st century and “the best possible projection of Spanish modernity”....
...A sad lothario with a once-taut tummy, sporting a magnificent moustache not dissimilar to that of a certain Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, court painter....
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