Last Friday there was the field study for the 20th Century Spain: An Uneasy History class. Our day trip to the Spanish-French border, the Museum of Exile and the small seaside village Collioure is planned as a way to show students the hardship and pains… More
Spain is well known for its vast variety of cheeses from fresh to cured, fermented to blue-veined, from cow’s, sheep’s or goat’s milk or a mixture of all three. A paradise for cheese lovers with 13 cheeses with Denominations of Origin in Spain! Cheese… More
The Photography class students went last weekend to Sabadell, one of the largest suburban towns in Barcelona. A city of over 200,000 inhabitants, Sabadell was known in the past as the “Catalan Manchester” due to the proliferation of textile factories… More
The field trip arranged for the course Gastronomy and Culture in Spain this semester consisted of a visit to the first wine museum in Spain: VINSEUM Museum, which first opened in 1945. This was followed by a visit to nearby Adernats winery, where our… More
This week, as part of the Cornerstone courses, students participated in a guided visit to Casa dels Entremesos. This is a specific center of production and dissemination of the wealth of traditional Catalan folk culture that provides the public with… More