Tag: Spain

Shopping and stores Provisions are usually brought from Spain (cheeses, wine, jamon ham) and souvenirs with the symbols of the country (fans, skirts, flamenco shoes). Other popular crafts are wooden caps (hair bands, if anyone doesn’t know) and other wood carvings, as well as clay products – from whistles to sets. Spanish craftswomen weave amazing…

With all the poetry that raged in his heart, where even the poetic aspirations of the Renaissance vibrate (return to the golden age and primitive justice), Don Quixote fails to his profound life, because to achieve it he adhered to the unbridled art of dreams, that of the books of chivalry, and he wanted to…

Apart from lyricism, which was an anxiety of interiority, and where Spain had poets of universal value, art proves to be awkward and unable to sustain itself according to an intrinsic norm that harmonizes with a solid intellectual constructive framework. Italianism, which in narrative poetry was the abandonment of the octave of “arte mayor”, produced…

The peripheral location with respect to the rest of Europe, however, in the twentieth century determined a long isolation for the country which, if on the one hand kept it extraneous to the Second World War, on the other it subjected it to the horrors of a bloody civil war. Forty years of regime (Francoism),…