Jun 21, 2003, 11:29 PM

Spanish Tourist Opens Photo Exhibition on Iran in Madrid

TEHRAN, June 21 (Mehr News Agency) -- A Spanish tourist who recently visited Iran has opened a photo exhibition on Iranian art and culture in the Spanish capital Madrid.

Entitled "Iran, Kind Face of Islam", the exhibition of 30 photographs, which opened on Friday at an exclusive library for tourism, will run through September. Louise Martinez, the artist behind the retrospective, said that the photographs are mostly of historical sites and monuments.

He said that he took hundreds of photographs during his two-week stay, and only selected the best works for the exclusive exhibition. However, Iran' s Cultural Office in Madrid paid for developing the photographs.

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