The GCW Tour, Spain & Morocco: A Visit to Wadiya, er, Naboo, er, Arabia, er, the Plaza de España

The city walking tour ends at the Plaza de España. This is a huge curving building with towers at either end and a lovely fountain in the center that was built for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. It's also been used as a stand in for the Republic of Wadiya in the film The Dictator, the planet Naboo in the Star Wars prequels, and Arabia in Lawrence of Arabia.

It's a pretty amazing place, if you can stand trying to take photos around groups of idiot tourists who won't get out of the way. The niece was pretty pleased that she understood one young woman's complaint (in Spanish) that "her head looked weird" in her group's photos, which explained why they kept taking and retaking the same photo right in the place where I wanted them not to be.

In any case, for those who didn't see the above movies, her are some shots of the plaza both with and without oblivious tourists.

And yes, I do realize that someone else is probably complaining that I wouldn't get out of the shots they wanted to take while I was waiting for people to get out of mine.