Famous Spaniards
Famous Spaniards posts collect short profiles of writers, painters, scientists, musicians and athletes from Spain. Articles look at Cervantes and Don Quixote, El Greco the Cretan who painted in Toledo, Velazquez and Goya at the Prado, Picasso, Dali and Miro, Federico Garcia Lorca, Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, Pablo Casals and Andres Segovia in classical music, Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas in film, Rafael Nadal in tennis, the cyclist Miguel Indurain and the Real Madrid generation around Iker Casillas. The category is short-form reference rather than full biography.














