This post is not about the song made famous by Topol from the musical "Fiddler on the Roof". ​Nor is it about the fabulous sunrises and sunsets we get down here in Andalucia. ​These celestial delights are just the starting point for an article about the continuing popularity of the area among northern Europeans.

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From the end of the Civil War in 1939 through to the demise of Franco's fascist dictatorship on his death in 1975, Spain was most definitely a 3rd-world country. Following Spain's return to being a monarchy in 1975 and, from 1977, a constitutional democracy, there was hope that things would improve. The borders opened and from 1986 Spain became a member of the European Union.

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