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...Covered with gilt and dimly lit with candles . . . powerful or banal/Monuments of riches or repression . . . the Escorial/Cold for ever within like the heart of Philip . . . and in the Prado half/Wit princes...
...Museo Nacional del Prado, Calle Ruiz de Alarcón, 28014 (+34913-302 800; museodelprado.es)....
...Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat, a fictionalised portrait of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, came second....
...“Europe and the USA continue to treat Russia as a third-rate state”....
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