The Prado, Madrid's premier art museum and Spain's most popular tourist attraction, has had some of its images added to Google Earth - at a resolution 1,400 times better than a 10 megapixel camera could take.

The project allows art lovers to see things that were previously not visible to the human eye - such as a microscopic teardrop on Roger van der Weyden's "Descent from the Cross."

Fourteen exhibits can be seen in Google Earth. Other paintings now in digital format include Diego Velázquez's "Las Meninas" and Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights". Viewers can also move around a 3D representation of the museum as if they were actually there.

The Prado is visited by more tourists each year than any other museum in Spain. If viewing the exhibits online isn't enough for you, read more about visiting for yourself: Prado Museum in Madrid.

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One of the most popular alternative music websites in the world, Pitchfork Media, will curate one of the Primavera Sound 2009 stages in Barcelona this May, it has been announced.

The Primavera Sound festival is one of the most internationally acclaimed music festivals in Spain, as demonstrated by its association this year with Pitchfork.

Acts confirmed for this stage include the Vivian Girls,Crystal Antlers, The Bug, and The Mae Shi's. Other acts due to perform at Primavera Sound 2009, which takes place at Parc del Forum in Barcelona from May 28th to May 30th, include My Bloody Valentine, and The Vaselines.

Read more about the festival, including other confirmed acts: Primavera Sound 2009.

Twenty-five Spanish provinces are preparing for more snowfall today, only days after the last cold weather front caused massive disruption to transport across the country.

The regions likely to be hit are Albacete, Asturias, Ávila, Burgos, Cáceres, Cantabria, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Guipúzcoa, La Rioja, León, Lugo, Madrid, Navarra, Orense, Palencia, Salamanca, Segovia, Soria, Teruel, Toledo, Valladolid, Zamora y Zaragoza, according to an article on TypicallySpanish.com: Yet another front brings more snow to Spain on Tuesday. All of these provinces are in the north and center of Spain.

Last week, heavy snow caused serious delays at Madrid's Barajas airport and forced RENFE, the Spanish train company, to abandon its AVE punctuality promise. The latest cold front is not expected to be as severe.

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A new rail track that bypasses Madrid means that you can now travel by train from Barcelona to Malaga without going via the capital, according to this article on Typically Spanish: High speed rail link opens between Malaga and Barcelona.

The new journey takes just five hours and forty minutes - an impressive time considering how much distance you are covering. However, tickets aren't cheap. If you book well in advance and online, a round trip costs 160€ - you'd be better off flying. Going by plane would be a little quicker too, even taking into account check-in times and all that waiting around you get at airports.

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