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Opera has existed in Spain since the mid 17th century.
Zarzuela is characterized by a mixture of sung and spoken dialogue. Although Juan Hidalgo de Polanco's early forays into opera were more along the lines of Italian opera, he was instrumental in helping to create the art form, composing the first known zarzuela, El laurel de Apolo, in 1657.

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Flamenco uses the Flamenco mode (which can also be described as the modern Phrygian mode (modo frigio), or a harmonic version of that scale with a major 3rd degree), in addition to the major and minor scales commonly used in modern Western music.

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Flamenco Dance is a professionalized art-form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Extremadura and Murcia. Furthermore, on November 16, 2010, UNESCO declared flamenco one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

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She is known as the Spanish former World No. 1 retired professional tennis player. She won four Grand Slam singles titles, six Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. In 1994 she was crowned the ITF World Champion for the year.

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The football game between the capital city, Madrid and Barcelona, is especially like a civil war.

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Barca vs. Real Madrid: How soccer is politics in Spain | AJ+

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Football is the most popular sport in Spain, and is also a widespread passion among the Spaniards. Spain’s people are supporters of FC Barcelona (37.9%) or Real Madrid (25.4%), and the other teams have fewer supporters nationwide. Because of the two cities history, the games are just like civil wars.

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The Spanish omelette is another beloved top Spanish food, and it's great for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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How to slice a Whole Jamon?!!

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Jamon is a serious business and an art in Spain, with many factors in place to determine quality, such as what the pigs are fed, the type of pig and the curing process.

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9pm~11pm
Dinner is usually much lighter than it would be in the U.S. or Britain. If eaten at home, a Spanish dinner often consists of a salad, a plate of cured ham, sausages or aged cheese, or even just a yogurt and a piece of fruit.

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8:30pm~10pm
The real fun of eating in Spain begins around 8:30 in the evening, when tapas bars begin to open. Tapas are often eaten standing up at the bar.
(Tapas is an appetizer or snack in Spanish Cuisine)

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5:30pm~7:30pm
The fare for the mid-afternoon snack is usually sweet (churros with chocolate, pastries, ice cream) or cured (a small sandwich with Iberian ham, chorizo sausage or cheese).

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2pm~3:30pm
This set menu typically offers 3 to 6 options for a first course and either meat or fish as a second course.  The two courses plus bread, a drink (usually wine, beer or a soda) and either dessert or coffee.

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10:30am~11am
For working adults this morning snack often consists of another coffee or perhaps a juice. People might snack on a muffin or even a croissant layered with ham and cheese. For school-aged children this morning snack is sacred.

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7am~9am
It’s nearly impossible to find a coffee shop that opens before 7 a.m. in Madrid. In smaller cities, the espresso starts flowing even later. Many people in Spain skip eating a desayuno altogether, opting instead for only a cup of coffee or hot chocolate milk.

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In terms of the number of speakers and dominance, the most prominent of the languages of Spain is Spanish (Castilian), spoken by about 99% of Spaniards as a first or second language which is also known as he official language . Catalan (or Valencian) is spoken by 19%, Galician by 5%, and Basque by 2% of the population.

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The standard of education in Spain has greatly improved in the last 25 years through increases in spending and educational reforms. Based upon the Ley Orgánica de Educación or Fundamental Law of Education, education in Spain is compulsory for all children and young people who are resident between the ages of 6 to 16 years.

Religious education in Spain is offered in state schools but it’s optional; also, it is legal, although not popular, to home school children in Spain.

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The Alhambra integrates natural site qualities with constructed structures acnd gardens, and is a testament to Moorish culture in Spain and the skills of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian artisans, craftsmen, and builders of their era.

The design included plans for six palaces, five of which were grouped in the northeast quadrant forming a royal quarter, two circuit towers, and numerous bathhouses.

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Alhambra is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain.  It was originally constructed as a small fortress in AD 889 on the remains of Roman fortifications, and then largely ignored until its ruins were renovated and rebuilt in the mid-13th century

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Sagrada Familia is a large unfinished Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi, which his work on the building is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Picture: Model of the complete design.

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Spain rushed to finish the church on time

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Spain rushed to finish the church on time

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Spain hope to finish the church before Gaudi's 100th anniversary!

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Spain Brilliant Biographies - Salvador Dali's Work Gallery

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Holy Week (Spanish: Semana Santa) in Spain attracts thousands of pilgrims and tourists alike. For centuries Holy Week has had a special significance in the church calendar in Spain, where early on Good Friday the darkened streets of dawn become the stage for solemn processions and celebrations that lead up to festivities of Easter Sunday.

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Spain's fastest growing religion

The rapid growth of Islam has been due to the large waves of immigrants into the country. Islam is now the second most widely practiced religion in Spain with approximately 1.9 million followers, which is roughly 4% of the population. Practitioners of Islam are more likely to actively practice their religion than Catholics in the country. This could result in a resurgence of religious participation in some parts of Spain.

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Around 70% of the Spanish population identify as Roman Catholic Christians. The Christian religion has had a notable presence in Spain since the days the region was part of the Roman Empire.

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Best place for night clubbing!

San Antonio, on the west coast of Ibiza, is home to the world famous sunset strip and its cafés, as well as having a broad beach and very lively town centre with lots of bars and smaller nightclubs. Daytime open-air clubbing around the pool can be experienced at the beach club Ocean Beach Ibiza or at Ibiza Rocks Hotel.

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Spain Brilliant Biographies - Pablo Picaso's Work Gallery

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The Three Tenors were a popular operatic singing group during the 1990s and early 2000s, consisting of Spaniards Plácido Domingo and José Carreras and the Italian Luciano Pavarotti.

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"Some enchanted evening"
A show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.It is a three-verse solo for the leading male character, Emile, in which he describes seeing a stranger, knowing that he will see her again, and dreaming of her laughter.

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Spanish tenor José Carreras gained international acclaim as an opera singer, and became even more popular with his performances as one of the Three Tenors. In his career, Carreras made more than 50 opera recordings. He also sang on non-opera albums, such as Hollywood Golden Classics (1991) and Mediterranean Passion (2008). Outside of singing, Carreras has written an autobiography, Singing From the Soul; the documentary José Carreras: A Life Story (1993) received an international Emmy Award.

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You will be able to understand the meaning of Picasso's words!

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Everything you can imagine is real - Pablo Picasso

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"Everything you can imagine is real."
Picasso is trying to express that anything people can imagine, then it is possible to become a creation and be turned into reality.

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"I don't do drugs. I am drugs."
People use drugs to get release from stress or to satisfy their desires, however, Dali says that he is able to be his own drug, and to be delightful and crazy without them.

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Cubism is an artistic movement, created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, which employs geometric shapes in depictions of human and other forms.

Picture: Weeping Woman 1937

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A 1930 French surrealist satirical comedy film directed by Luis Buñuel,  as well as the screenplay is by him and Salvador Dali

Summary: A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with one each other, but their attempts to consummate their love are thwarted by their families, the Church and the bourgeois society.

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Mark Kermode reviews L'Age d'Or | BFI Player

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Salvador Dali on Melanchonic British Art

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Salvador Dali on Melanchonic British Art

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"Salvador Dali on Melanchonic British Art" - Talk Collection - BBC Four"

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Pablo Picasso was one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, as well as the co-creater of Cubism.

Picasso insisted that his varied work was not indicative of radical shifts throughout his career, but, rather, of his dedication to objectively evaluate for each piece of form and technique best suited to achieve his desired effect.

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Dalí's Mustache is an absurdist humorous book by the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí and his friend.

Background
Dalí's distinguish mustache became a "gimmick" and his unofficial "trademark" with recognition effect. In the 1950s, his mustache became an iconic part of him.

gimmick: a trick or device intended to attract attention, publicity, or trade.

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The Persistence of Memory is a 1931 painting. The well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch It epitomizes Dalí's theory of "softness" and "hardness", which was central to his thinking at the time. Dalí was incorporating an understanding of the world introduced by Albert Einstein's theory of special relatively.

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Listen to Pablo Picasso's Biography!

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Although lunch breaks last for two to three hours, people in Spain usually work until eight or nine at night. Spaniards thus complain that they don’t have enough evening time being with their families. In spite of listening to the citizens’ complaints are important, the most significant problem is that Spain’s unemployment reached approximately 14.8% percent in 2018, the second worst in Europe

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Dalí is a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters.

His best-known work, The Persistence of memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, at times in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

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Take a look at the prediction of finished Sagrada Familia!

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Sagrada Familia Visualisation of the Finished Basilica

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"I'm not a good painter" interview

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Salvador Dali "I'm not a good painter" interview

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Take a look at other interesting festivals in Spain!

- This ppt will be centering on
1. San Fermin (Red Bullfighting)
2. Castell (Human Pyramid)

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Spain Fascinating Festivals - Other Festivals

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Throwing things are related to bad manners around the world, however, Spain has more than ten festivals that people throw things!

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1. La Tomatina (Tomato Throwing Festival)
2. Batalla Del Vino (Haro Wine Festival)
3. Cascamorras (Oil Painting Festival)

These three festivals are more popular for tourism!

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Spain Fascinating Festivals - Throwing Festivals

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Protestantism has had a very minor impact on Spanish life since the Reformation of the 16th century, owing to the intolerance of the Spanish government towards any non-Catholic religion and the Spanish Inquisition. However, it has become more prevalent in the 20th and 21st centuries

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Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.

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Language is the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.

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Take a look at 10 bizarre festivals in Spain!

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Spain prides itself with one of the finest and most varied nightlife scenes in Europe. A typical Spanish night out usually starts with a tapas crawl around the local bars, and continues with bar-hopping and parties until the early hours of the morning.

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Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.

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"Siesta" in Spain is called "nap." As the name says, it's an afternoon rest or nap taken during the hottest hours of the day in the hot climate, therefore, Siesta is a common tradition in some countries where the weather there is warm. In Spain, Siesta is taken from 2pm to 5pm, stores and public places will be closed during the time.

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The habits below are caused because spaniards are living in the wrong time zone for about seventy years

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A biography is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events!

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Architectures, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art.

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I want to preserve the culture of Spain in the Kaleidoscope project, because Spain is the hometown of many renowned artists and architects, which are the people who published large amount of aesthetically pleasing artworks. However, especially some modern artworks, are becoming homogenised through globalization. People imitate other countries' styles and create new artworks is the most common, for it increases the economy through public's preference degree.