Some Facts about Spain

Here at European relocation services we are based near Albox in the Almeria Region here are some facts and interesting trivia from the area around us

1 The 2nd largest Geode in the world can be found near Pulpi

 
2 (Spain in general) Spain has the 2nd largest high speed rail network in the World Second only to China

3 Their is a 24 hour long  indoor football  tournament in august in the Town of Albox
4 With Fortified towns , watch towers , castles (Castillo) and the likes there are just shy of 3000 castle in Spain

5 Spain Is home to the worlds oldest operational lighthouse built about 1900 years ago by the Romans

Called the tower of Hercules in la  Coruña

Circa 90 ad

6 Spain is the second most mountainous country in Europe only Switzerland is more mountainous

7 Spain is one of Europe's largest producers of olive oil

8 The only Spanish province which is both on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic is Andalusia

9 The Spanish navy is one of the oldest navies in the world and the 4th Biggest

10 The European Rabbit is naturally native to Spain and Portugal ( the Iberian peninsula ) but is found thought out Europe and was introduced to England by the Romans

11 Olives are not native to the Americas. Spanish colonists brought the olive to the New World (via Wikipedia ) (We have an olive tree in our Garden here at European relocation services )

12 Albox name comes from Arabic and means Tower

13 There are about 1700 types of Spiders in Spain 

14 There are 13 types of Snakes in Spain of which 5 are poisonous

15 Spain's boarder with Portugal is  1,224 km long

16 And Spain's boarder with Andorra is 63km

17 And the Boarder it shares with France is 646km

18 Spain is home to Wolfs in the Shape of the Iberian wolf which has an estimated population of only 2000 in both Spain and Portugal

19  This is called the Osburne bull there are about 97 of them in Spain originally erected in 1956, by the Osburne Sherry company