Spain

intolerance? The movie: Cities of Light, The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain, produced, and directed by Robert Gardner, studied how Muslim Spain became such an advanced and influential civilization. Muslim Spain was a civilization that…

or New Spain, as it…

Spain is a cultural country that has many festivals , holidays, and religion. National festivals are most common throughout Spain. One of the most common one is La Tomatina in Buñol. The "show" does not begin until one courageous person climbs the greasy pole and grab the ham on the top. Even though no reaches the delicious ham, the fight still begins. This is one of the coolest things to experience because people throw tomatoes at each other for an hour, but rules still applied. Some of the…

In The Way, the director, Emilio Estevez, represents many cultural aspects of Spain. Some of these elements are similar to American culture such as geography and hostels and some are different like paradors and social situations. In The Way, Tom goes to Spain to recover the body of his son who died while traveling El Camino de Santiago and decides to take the pilgrimage himself. The United States does not have any major pilgrimages. However, it does have many marathons which are sometimes run…

the Spaniards. However, negative contexts indicated that Indians created war and show no signs of respect. No matter the view, there will always be one fact for certain, that the Christians wanted the land for themselves; coming from a monarch in Spain in which evoked to show patterns of failure alike Roman Catholic Republics and also the Judeo-Christians which met the same fate. The Christians interpreted the land as a distinguished beginning, a land of opportunity, not to mention the evil that…

an explorer and a conquistador. Cortés is infamous for eliminating the amazing empire of the Aztecs. Cortés after brutally murdering the Aztecs, he claimed their native land, Mexico, for Spain. Although can Cortés be considered a hero and a villain, but can he be both? Hernando Cortés was born in Medellín, Spain in 1485. He was born in a wealthy family, but his family wasn’t as wealthy. He attended the University of Salamanca, but he wasn’t as happy with school. He was inspired by Christopher…

new route. Spain eventually conquered and settled most of South America, the Caribbean, and the American Southwest. This was the beginning of what scholars call the new world, many scholars ask themselves is the Spanish colonization of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries a success or not? The New World was discovered accidentally by Christopher Columbus as he was trying to find a new trade route to India by sailing west. Columbus was commissioned by the king and queen of Spain. Queen…

his ships landed on the Watling Island in the Bahamas and claimed it for Spain. Columbus then took treasures to bring back to Spain (Iconn). It was on this voyage that Columbus also spotted Cuba and Hispaniola (Iconn). On December 24, 1492, the Santa Maria wrecked on the north coast of Hispaniola (Iconn). Columbus left men there to start a colony while he returned to Spain because of the shipwreck (Iconn). His return to Spain brought him all the glory and fame he had dreamed of (Iconn).…

estate agency. This can be done via the web as many agencies now have websites with a large selection of properties and contact buttons. Most estate agencies in Spain now rely heavily on this method to find their clients. However some still have a long way to go with their customer service technique. Another method is to travel to Spain and take a look in the estate agencies windows and then to go into their office if you find something that you are interested in. You will find that this method…

I lived twenty miles from the big city of Madrid, Spain in a small town, Las Rozas. It was a cold winter day in the middle of January. “Paula veni abajo, que el chocolate se esta enfriando” said my father (Paula come down the stairs, or the hot coco will get cold). I ran down the stairs as if I was in the festival of San Fermin running from the bulls. I took a glance at my mother, who was cooking Torta de Patata, and smiled. I smiled because I was in a good place, I was with my family. What I…