Spain Questions: SHOPPING?
Things to buy in Spain include pottery (dishes, tiles, jugs, plant pots, window boxes), leather (jackets, bags, belts, shoes, boots, wallets), textiles and clothes (rugs, hangings, embroidery, blankets) , two tone metal weapons, carved and inlaid woodwork, gold and silver jewelry, hand blown glass. Individual regions/cities are known for different crafts. GUERNICA? The town, Gernika, is near Bilbao (central northern Spain) in Basque country. Long ago this was where the Basque parliament held it’s meetings. In 1937, Franco requested Hitler’s Legion Condor to bomb on April 26, 1937. Almost 2,000 people died. Picasso remembers this massacre in his famous Guernica painting.
