Learn About Spain

As we all gather to celebrate, feast and exchange gifts with our families, it is the perfect time to pause and be thankful for the beautiful things in life. I am so thankful for our La Tienda community, our family and this year, especially, our wonderful father, Don Harris. He reveled in the sense of community that he found in the Spanish people, and he wanted to share that sense of loving...

Spain has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to artisan regional foods. Every town we visit seems to have a cherished tradition, whether it is the fabes beans for fabada stew that are hand-tended on small Asturian farms, or the beloved Ibérico de Bellota ham of the village of Jabugo that owes its flavor to the special landscape and plants of the area where the Ibérico pigs roam. At La...

What an amazing variety of cities and products, castles and crocuses in this fascinating part of Spain! We have traveled here and there over the region, but from the moment we first began exploring Spain, we were attracted to Toledo, just about an hour south of Madrid. There you can see a fascinating mosaic of all that has occurred in Spain over the past 2,000 years. 

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This is an itinerary I designed for a couple who wanted to get immersed in the heart of Spain while avoiding the usual tourist destinations. This was a little over two weeks, which I think is the minimum to do Spain justice. Even with that, we only concentrated on perhaps one third of the country. Bear in mind that there are 17 autonomous regions with their own distinct styles and sometimes...