Northern Spain Reading and Watch List

Books:

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, translated by Lucia Graves

https://books.google.ca/books?id=jzaruh-z1RoC&lpg=PA4&ots=tLR6ygsPZA&dq=isabella’s%20coronation%20in%20Segovia&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q=isabella’s%20coronation%20in%20Segovia&f=false

Film:

Almodovar, everything from All About My Mother to Volver

Belle Epoche, by Fernando Trueba

Butterfly, by Jose Luis Cuerda

Gloria, by Sebastian Lelio (for 50+ female audience)

The Way, Emilio Estavez

Documentaries:

Antonio Gaudi, (1985), Hiroshi Teshigahara

El Greco, an Artist’s Odyssey, David Hammer

Picasso: The Legacy, Jordan Patterson

Youtube:

Gonzalez Echevarria, Yale University, Don Quixote (Introduction – you can audit this whole course if you are crazy like me)

Sister Wendy on Las Maninas by Valezquez:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMvBZSeeS1k

The Botafumeiro at St. James Cathedral:

Websites:

The Local, Spain’s news in English:

http://www.thelocal.es/?vp=1

Weather:

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/spain.htm

Montserrat:

http://www.montserrat.cat

 

 

 

 

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