And his new slogan is "Winter is Coming" - for those in power, at least. Iglesias has promised to hold a referendum on getting rid of Spain's monarchy, if elected.
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"I told him it's a series he'll definitely like, if he wants to understand the political crisis in Spain," Iglesias told reporters afterward, with a wink. Party leader Pablo Iglesias (shown here in March) gave Spain's King Felipe a box set of Game of Thrones: "I told him it's a series he'll definitely like, if he wants to understand the political crisis in Spain." The new left-wing, grass-roots party Podemos ("We Can") hopes to wrest power from the ruling conservatives. But people are so obsessed, they've started searching for parallels in real life. Only 5,000 were accepted - and only a fraction ever appeared on TV. More than 85,000 locals applied to be extras on the Game of Thrones set in Seville. "I've traveled to a few of the other locations where they filmed, and it's got the exact same vibes."
"Everything looks really familiar - the architecture and what not," says Sam Dawson, a college student visiting Seville from Minnesota. Seville's Alcázar has seen a 25 percent jump in tourist visits this past year, in part because of Game of Thrones fans. "For fans, it's like an amazing experience." "When we go into the gardens, they say, 'Ah, this is the Water Gardens!' " observes Pepe Pallarés, a licensed tour guide in Seville who has added a Game of Thrones-themed tour to his itinerary. The Alcazar was transformed into the Water Gardens palace in the mythical kingdom of Dorne, where Prince Doran Martell resides. ambassador to Spain, James Costos, is a former HBO executive. It may or may not be a coincidence that the U.S. HBO got unprecedented access to the country to shoot the show's fifth season in Seville's ancient Moorish palace, the Alcázar, for about a month last fall. Fans are flocking to Game of Thrones-themed tours of Spain, and they're also looking for plot parallels in real-life Spanish politics.
It's hugely popular here, dubbed over as Juego de Tronos. It's the height of summer, but "winter is coming" to Spain.įor those who may not be well-versed in the lingo of the Seven Kingdoms, that's a reference to Game of Thrones - the HBO series filmed partly in Spain.
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