Survival Guide - Discover Spain: Experience the Best of Spain - page 626

Youth Card : Travel, sights and youth hostel discounts with the Euro<26
( www.euro26.org ) card (aka Carnet Joven in Spain). The International Youth Travel
Card (IYTC; www.istc.org ) offers similar benefits.
Electricity
The bottom graphic is for Gibraltar.
Gay & Lesbian Travellers
Homosexuality is legal in Spain and the age of consent is 13, as for heterosexuals.
In 2005 the Socialist president, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, gave the country's
conservative Catholic foundations a shake with the legalisation of same-sex mar-
riages in Spain.
Lesbians and gay men generally keep a fairly low profile, but are quite open in
the cities. Madrid, Barcelona, Sitges, Torremolinos and Ibiza have particularly lively