Using 1st Gen iPhone for calls in Europe (Spain)

I have the original iPhone and I'll be travelling in Spain for a week, where I would like to buy a SIM card with a modest amount of voice minutes, say 200. I do NOT need data (although if I could easily get it I would of course take it.) I do not want to jail-break my phone. Any suggestions from people that have actually done this in Europe?

Unless your phone is unlocked, what you want to do won't work.

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Coreyrich22: some small conditions on this--see the official statement here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3406
iona64: presumably the article above will also be true for the 3G, but I haven't seen confirmation of that yet.
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