Learn About Spain

As you settle in for Christmas, I’d like to tell you about our friend José Manuel, owner of the legendary candy maker, Turrones 1880. Hopefully you are sipping a nice cup of coffee and nibbling some turrón candy as you read this!

When we first lived in Andalucía in the 1970s, our family fell in love with some of Spain’s classic dishes—from churros pastries to refreshing gazpacho and crispy ‘pescaito frito’ fried fish. Over the years we’ve learned we were only scratching the surface of this amazing food culture. Spain's cuisine is a delicious adventure, with a diversity of culinary...

Navarra is exceptionally beautiful -- especially to the north where it meets the high Pyrenees along the border of France. The soaring peaks, deep valleys, bucolic pastures, swift rivers and bubbling streams that flow through thick forests of oak and beech are very appealing. It is a romantically pastoral landscape with many cattle lazily grazing. We like driving the back roads to visit quaint...

This area of Spain contains an amazing treasury of art and architecture, some of which stretches back over a thousand years. It has been relatively untouched because the areas of interest are largely valleys nestled in the foothills of the rugged Pyrenees. The roads are winding and difficult to navigate in the winter contributing to a place minimally touched by modern life. Romanesque...