Spanish Abroad - Spanish culture
Spain is integrated by a set of cultures pertaining to civilizations that, throughout the centuries, have been populating the Iberian ground. The historical legacy is nourished of varieties in this mosaic, the wealth of its shades and the fusion of its contributions. The different civilizations previous to the romanization, the track of Islam, the Jewish expression, the Christian culture, the discoveries of America, its Golden Century, and the influence of the Modernism is the marks of a great artistic and cultural wealth.
The diversity that takes shape in the character of Spain also is expressed in its cities, their traditions and their people.
One of greater attractiveness of Spain is without a doubt its gastronomy. It is one of the best in the world thanks to the quality and the variety of its products. We cannot speak of an exactly national gastronomy, but of several regional ones, each one, influenced by the climatology and the native ways of life.
Nevertheless eating ‘tapas’ is a typically Spanish national custom of which all the Spaniards feel very pride of. ‘Tapas’ are small amounts of food of many classes that are eaten in bars in the morning, in the evening or at night. There are many bars in Spain.
The bars are very important in the everyday life of Spaniards. There you talk, make businesses and important or trivial subjects are discussed. A Spanish town is a town that needs to communicate constantly and the bars are a point of contact for the young people and the older ones.
The smoothness of climate, its almost five thousand kilometers of coasts and mountainous relief, make of Spain also a privileged country to practice sports.
Splendor, joy and popular imagination are the essential characteristics of the Spanish celebrations. In the great festive dates throughout the year the main protagonists are the own people of towns and villages, conscious of their double paper.
Celebrations, an evident phenomenon of Spaniards vitality, follow one another in space and time almost without interruption in a attractive way to know and to attend some of these magical and spectacular phenomena that Spaniards combine with their work and daily life.