For the first time, traditional airline operators have been overtaken by their low cost rivals who are bringing the larger number of visitors into Spain. Spain continues to be one of the, if not in fact the most popular European destination as visitors and tourists from across the globe flock to the country year after year.
A leading professor at the University of Angers in France has come out with the statement that Benidorm should be considered an important architectural landmark, to the same extent that Stonehenge, The Acropolis and the Taj Mahal are!
One of the if not the most famous species that is native to Spain is the Iberian Lynx. This incredible animal heads up however the list of the world’s most endangered big cats and few remain in the wild today. It is believed there are only around 160 remaining.
The Iberian Lynx
Whilst it was once common throughout Spain and Portugal and even parts of Southern France, today it stands on the edge of extinction which would make it the first species of cat to die out since the sabre-toothed tiger which happened over 10,000 years ago. It was the very first wild cat species to be listed as critically endangered on the IUCN (World Conservation Union) Red List of threatened species.
