After the completion of his first dissertation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer…

became a vicar to the German congregation in Barcelona for a year.  This may have presented a somewhat difficult situation for the pastor who was there, since the tranquility of the comminity was suddenly upset.

Bonhoeffer encouraged new ways of doing things and reinvogorated the old. Whenever he led the worship service or the children’s worship, the church was full.

Naturally, the country irself also fascinated the young vicar.  He visited Cordoba, Seville, Granada, and Madrid.

With the encouragement of his brother Klaus, who already knew Spain, he came to enjoy the bullfights!

(Renate Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Brief Life)