Competition for jobs is intense. Cell phones are everywhere. Since the dictator Franco died in 1975, Spain leaped into the 21st century. Jaime, our guide in Seville, noted with a hint of bittersweet sarcasm that Spain s former colonial possessions are no more. Their golden age is past.
Tourism is the main industry of the present.
Their past has become their future. The Alhambra, built by the Moors, became a Catholic possession then.