SPAIN CULTURE

SPAIN CULTURE IS BASED ON ANCIENT ROME AND A PRE ROMAN CELTIC AND AN IBERIANCULTURE FROM 700 A.D.  MUSLIM INFLUENCES WERE STRONG DURING THE MIDDLE AGES.  SPANISH LANGUAGE DERIVES FROM LATIN AND IBERIAN AND CELTIC.  THEY ALSO HAVE JEWISH POPULATIONS HERE.  THE MUSLIMS WERE DEFEATED BY 1492 AND SPAIN BECAME ALMOST ENTIRELY ROMAN CATHOLIC.  THIS WESTEN PLAYED AN IMPORTYANT ROLE IN SHAPING ITS CULTURE.

BY THE END OF 19TH CENTURY THEY HAD CENTERED EASIER THAN IT HAD BEEN FOR THE LAST 7 CENTURIES.  SPAIN WAS DRAWN INTO A DIVERSEINTERNATIONALCULTURE.  THEY HAVE 44 HERITAGES.  IT MAY INCLUDE SPANISH AND LATIN AMERICAN LITERAATURE AND POETRY.

THEY HAVE ONE OF THE OLDEST SPANISH BOOKS PUBLISHED.  CELESTINA IS A BOOK PUBLISHED  IN 1000 IN MEDIEVAL SPAIN'S GREATEST WERE DURING THE GOLDEN AGE AND SOME WERE WORLD REKNOWN.  SPAIN'S BEST KNOWN ARTIST IS WAS IN THE CENTURY-  HIS NAME WAS PABLO PICASSO AND OTHER ARTISTS ARE FAMOUS FOR SCULPTURE, CERAMICS, AND PAINTINGS.

DURING THE PREHISTORIC PERIOD AND MEGALITHIC AND IBERIAN PERIODS SPAIN HAD PEOPLE LIVING IN CAVES.  DURING THE ROMAN PERIOD THE ARCHITECTURE  FLOURISHED.  ONE EXAMPLE WAS THE WAS BASED ON ISLAM BELIEFS,  ISLAM DID NOT ALLOW PAIRING OF FIGURES OF PEOPLES.  THEY MADE NICE FLOORS FLORAL PATTERNS.  THEY HAD MANY STYLES OF ARCHITECTURES IN SPAIN  THOUGHOUT 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY. 

THEY HAD MANY SPAINISH CINEMAS AND HIGH MARKS OF RECOGNITIONRECOGNITION FOR CREATIVE AND TECHNICALELLENCE THROUGHOUT HIDSTORY.  BY THE 1980'S THEY SAW INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS IN THIS MEDIA. THEY HAVE MADE MANY FILMS.

SPANISH IS A ROMANCE LANGUAGE ORIGINALLY FROM THE NORTHERN AREA OF SPAIN.  THEY USED CASTLIAN LANGUAGE AND IT EVOLVED AS  THEIR MAIN LANGUAGE.  TODAY 21 NATIONS USE THIS LANGUAGE IN LATIN AMERICA AND EUROPE.  SOME FOLKS SPEAK GALICIAN AND ARANESE.  ABOUT 79% ARE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARE NOT RELIGIOUS.AND IMPORTANT HOLIDAY AS SEMANA SANTA OR HOLY WEEK.  THESE FOLKS DECORATE THE STREETS WITH LARGE THE STREETS WITH LARGE PARADES  AND FIREWORKS AT EASTER.  IN JULY BULLS ARE RELEASED IN THE STREETS WHILE FOLKS RUN IN FRONT OF THEM.

A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THEIR FOODS ARE ROMAN JEWISH OR ARAB TRADITIONS. THE MOORISH TRADIONS WERE A STRONG  INFLUENCE  IN SPAIN FOR MANY CENTURIES.  PORK IS POPULAR WITH MUSLIMS.  PORK IS COMMON FOR CHRISTIANS HERE AS CLEANLINESS OF BLOOD.  SOME U.S. NATIVE FOODS WERE INTRODUCED.  MODERN SPAIN USES POTATOES, TOMATOES, PEPPERS AND BEANS.  THEY SHARE MANY DISHES  WITH MEDITERRANEAN  FOLKS.   SPAIN GROWS  44% OF THE WORLD'S  OLIVES.  MANY OF THEIR MEALS ARE MADE FROM HAND WITH INGREDIENTS. FRESH FROM MARKETS.  LARGER CITIES HAVE LARGE SUPERMARKETS INTRODUCED V.S. OPEN AIR MARKETS.  ONE POPULAR DRINK IS TAPA OR WINE OR BEER.  THEY LIKE HOT CHOCOLATE.  THEY USE OLIVE OIL AND AND GARLIC IN MANY LANGUAGES.  THERE ARE MANY LANGUAGES IN SPAIN SUCH AS IN SPAIN SUCH AS BASQUE OR ENSKARA, CALALAN AND GALICIAN.

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