Spanish Culture

The Carnival of Cádiz is one of the best-known carnivals in Spain. The whole city participates in the carnival for more than two weeks each year, and the presence of this fiesta is almost constant in the city because of the rehearsals, recitals, and contests held throughout the year.

The Family of Pascual Duarte (Spanish: La Familia de Pascual Duarte) is a 1942 novel written by Spanish Nobel laureate Camilo José Cela. The first two editions created an uproar and in less than a year it was banned. A new Spanish edition was allowed in 1946.

The Fiesta de las Cruces ("Festival of the Crosses") or Cruz de Mayo ("May Cross") is a holiday celebrated 3 May in many parts of Spain and Hispanic America.

Origins

Today Spanish expression comes from the rural world. April and May are months when rain is extremely important for plants and fruit trees blossom in all their beauty. If it rains a lot in these months, the result is a good harvest enough for the next year. For this reason it's so important rain in May.

In this case, we consider the intrinsic aspect of flies. How annoying and inexhaustible they are are always there, behind your ear!  And when you try to crush them, they escape and then, zigzagging back, they leave a buzz in our ears that sounds like a mocking laugh.

A brief history of the late 1970s / early 1980s artistic and socio-cultural movement that occurred in the aftermath of Spain's 'Transition'.

Ajoblanco (sometimes written ajo blanco) is a popular Spanish cold soup typical from Granada and Málaga (Andalusia). It is also a common dish in Extremadura (Ajo Blanco Extremeño).

Its origin may come from Roman gastronomy because the ingredients were already very popular in ancient times. Granada and Malaga have always been arguing about the invention of the garlic soup, but what no one doubts about the humble origins of the dish.

This Spanish saying is falsely ascribed to Cervantes in Don Quijote, but it doesn't appear like that in the novel. This is often used with a sense of criticism against the power of the Church. However, in the passage mentioned below Don Quijote is not talking about the Church as an institution but he refers to the village church (written in lower case), and he doesn't say "Hemos topado, amigo Sancho" (that literally expresses a negative feeling against the power of the Church), but "Hemos dado, Sancho" (that means "We have arrived at the church, Sancho.").

The Generation of '27 (Spanish: Generación del 27) was an influential group of poets that arose in Spanish literary circles between 1923 and 1927, essentially out of a shared desire to experience and work with avant-garde forms of art and poetry. Their first formal meeting took place in Seville in 1927 to mark the 300th anniversary of the death of the baroque poet Luis de Góngora. Writers and intellectuals celebrated an homage in the Ateneo de Sevilla, which retrospectively became the foundational act of the movement.

Ingredients:

• 1 Kilo of potatoes
• 3 Green peppers
• 1 Large onion
• 2 Clove of garlic
• 1 Large cup of olive oil
• Salt