Espaa! - Songs and Dances from Spain

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Además, habitan anfibios como el tritón ibérico, el sapo partero ibérico y la rana; reptiles como la tortuga mediterránea, el camaleón, el lagarto y variadas especies de lagartijas y culebras . Entre las aves más destacadas de la península están el águila imperial ibérica, el buitre negro, el mirlo, el gorrión y la urraca. In 1793, Spain went to war against the revolutionary new French Republic as a member of the first Coalition. The subsequent War of the Pyrenees polarised the country in a reaction against the gallicised elites and following defeat in the field, peace was made with France in 1795 at the Peace of Basel in which Spain lost control over two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola. In 1807, a secret treaty between Napoleon and the unpopular prime minister led to a new declaration of war against Britain and Portugal. French troops entered the country to invade Portugal but instead occupied Spain's major fortresses. The Spanish king abdicated and a puppet kingdom satellite to the French Empire was installed with Joseph Bonaparte as king. Diego Velázquez (1599-1660). Fue un pintor sevillano del Barroco y uno de los principales referentes del Siglo de Oro español (etapa que se caracterizó por el florecimiento de la literatura y el arte español). Fue pintor de la corte del rey Felipe IV y entre sus obras más reconocidas se destacan Las meninas, La Venus del espejo, La fábula de Aracne, El triunfo de Baco y El bufón don Sebastián de Morra. In early antiquity, the Iberian Peninsula was inhabited by a mixture of Iberian and Celtic tribes, along with other local pre-Roman peoples. With the Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, the province of Hispania was established. Following the Romanization and Christianization of Hispania, the fall of the Western Roman Empire ushered in the inward migration of tribes from Central Europe, including the Visigoths, who formed the Visigothic Kingdom centred on Toledo. In the early eighth century, most of the peninsula was conquered by the Umayyad Caliphate, and during early Islamic rule, Al-Andalus became a dominant peninsular power centred in Córdoba. Several Christian kingdoms emerged in Northern Iberia, chief among them Asturias, León, Castile, Aragon, Navarre, and Portugal ; made an intermittent southward military expansion, known as the Reconquista, repelling Islamic rule in Iberia, which culminated with the Christian seizure of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada in 1492. The dynastic union of the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon in 1479 is often considered the formation of Spain as a country. El poder legislativo español está en manos de las Cortes Generales, compuestas por el Senado y el Congreso de Diputados. Los representantes de las Cortes se eligen de forma directa por los españoles mayores de 18 años cada cuatro años. El presidente es elegido luego por estas asambleas.

Comunidad Valenciana. Es una comunidad española ubicada al sudeste de la península ibérica. Está formada por las provincias de Castellón, Valencia y Alicante. Valencia es la ciudad capital y la más poblada de la comunidad.A series of Viking incursions raided the coasts of the Iberian Peninsula in the 9th and 10th centuries. [33] The first recorded Viking raid on Iberia took place in 844; it ended in failure with many Vikings killed by the Galicians' ballistas; and seventy of the Vikings' longships captured on the beach and burned by the troops of King Ramiro I of Asturias. La flora de España varía según la zona geográfica, porque en cada región hay variaciones de relieve, temperatura y precipitaciones. Este país presenta la mayor diversidad de especies de flora de Europa.

Main article: Spanish Empire Late 16th-century Seville, the harbor enjoying the exclusive right to trade with the New World La Comunidad Autónoma de Euskadi cuenta con tres provincias, Álava, Guipuzcoa y Vizcaya, y tiene su capital en Vitoria-Gasteiz. Francisco de Goya (1746-1828). Fue un pintor español que abarcó diferentes estilos y se lo considera el padre del arte moderno. Sus obras más destacadas son La maja desnuda, La maja vestida, La familia de Carlos IV, Saturno devorando a su hijo y El 3 de mayo en Madrid. The Protestant Reformation increased Spain's involvement in religiously charged wars, forcing ever-expanding military efforts across Europe and in the Mediterranean. [44] By the middle decades of a war- and plague-ridden 17th-century Europe, the Spanish Habsburgs had enmeshed the country in continent-wide religious-political conflicts. These conflicts drained it of resources and undermined the economy generally. Spain managed to hold on to most of the scattered Habsburg empire, and help the imperial forces of the Holy Roman Empire reverse a large part of the advances made by Protestant forces, but it was finally forced to recognise the separation of Portugal and the United Provinces (Dutch Republic), and eventually suffered some serious military reverses to France in the latter stages of the immensely destructive, Europe-wide Thirty Years' War. [45] In the latter half of the 17th century, Spain went into a gradual decline, during which it surrendered several small territories to France and England; however, it maintained and enlarged its vast overseas empire, which remained intact until the beginning of the 19th century. Es la región más extensa del país, y está formada por las provincias de Ávila, Burgos, León, Palencia, Salamanca, Segovia, Soria, Valladolid y Zamora. Su ciudad más poblada es Valladolid.The Csb zone has warm rather than hot summers, and extends to additional cool-winter areas not typically associated with a Mediterranean climate, such as much of central and northern-central of Spain (e.g. western Castile–León, northeastern Castilla-La Mancha and northern Madrid) and into much rainier areas (notably Galicia). Note areas with substantial summer rainfall such as Galicia are classed as oceanic.

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989). Fue un pintor español nacido en Gerona (Cataluña) y uno de los principales representantes del surrealismo. Algunas de sus obras más representativas son La persistencia de la memoria, Construcción blanda con judías hervidas, Metamorfosis de Narciso y Sueño causado por el vuelo de una abeja alrededor de una granada segundos antes de despertar. In the Basque Country, moderate Basque nationalism coexisted with a radical nationalist movement led by the armed organisation ETA until the latter's dissolution in May 2018. [67] The group was formed in 1959 during Franco's rule but had continued to wage its violent campaign even after the restoration of democracy and the return of a large measure of regional autonomy.

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Nacido en Málaga, se destacó en la pintura y en la escultura, y fue uno de los artistas más influyentes del siglo XX. Junto con Georges Braque desarrolló el cubismo, un movimiento artístico caracterizado por el uso de figuras geométricas. Algunas de sus obras más reconocidas son Guernica, Las señoritas de Avignon, Los tres músicos, Las meninas y Mujer ante el espejo. Dado que España es un país con una amplia diversidad de climas y relieves, su fauna y flora son de las más variadas del continente. Political corruption and repression weakened the democratic system of the constitutional monarchy of a two-parties system. [59] The July 1909 Tragic Week events and repression exemplified the social instability of the time.