Popular Web Sites
Spaniards who have Web access use Google,
MSN,
and Yahoo!
about as much as we do in the U.S. Of course, there
are also a few other major Internet brand names well known in Spain.
Spanish portals
- terra.es
- A large Spanish Web portal
- ya.com
- Major portal with chat, discussion boards, e-mail, music, movie listings and news
Both of these portals are among the
Top 100 websites in Spain
(Source: Alexa.com).
Local Web resources
- Guíadelocio.com
- Guía del Ocio, "Leisure Guide," features city-specific event listings, much like Citysearch or Triangle.com
- Sevillaclick
- A local portal for Seville
- Loquo.com
- This is Spain's Craigslist: a large, active community bulletin board that gets the most use in Barcelona, but in other cities in Spain as well
Useful for making plans
- Canal Metro
- Spanish weather site
- QDQ.com
- Street-by-street photographic directory combined with yellow pages, white pages, maps, and a restaurant guide - for Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, and Valencia
- Mapquest
- Mapquest for Europe, including Spain
- renfe.es
- Train schedules from the National Network of the Spanish Railways, RENFE (Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles)
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