Valencia, Spain

Have community, will travel Students travel to Spain, New Orleans NCU Chorale tours Spain The addition of an extra winter break provided a unique travel window for the North Central University Chorale to take their bi-annual international tour, Jan. 26–Feb. 5. Visiting Madrid, Valencia, and Barcelona in Spain, the Chorale partnered with local churches and schools, performing concerts and doing outreach events. The result was music shared and lives changed. Senior Jessica (Hutchens) Ballew…

The Spanish Civil War was a social and political conflict that that later had an impact in the economic crisis. Spain used to be a catholic monarchy, ruled by kings and queens, and was one of the World’s most powerful countries, as it conquered a lot of territories, such as Latin America and Philippines. Spain was basically an agricultural country. In Spain, since the 19th century the owners of large lands held the power. There was an oligarchy based in land. The economy was unable to meet…

an unknown, Spanish author in the 1200s, during the Reconquista, to immortalize the story of the great hero of Spain. The Reconquista lasted almost 780 years and was a series of wars between Christians lords and Muslims moors. The Reconquista sought to cleanse the Iberian peninsula of all things non-christian. The poem shows the significance of loyalty and honor during twelfth century Spain, and how the relationship between those qualities affected a person’s social standing. The poem was…

“From 1936-1939, a civil war raged in Spain between those loyal to the newly-stablished Republican government and those who favored a conservative, militaristic system”. The people, who were loyal to the democratically elected Spanish Republic, were called the Loyalists or Republicans. This group of people fought for the democracy in Spain, that has being gained after the fall of the monarchy. The opposite group, who favored a conservative and militaristic system, also was a fascist rebel group…

cuisine, you really need to take a closer look at Spain and its cuisine. While the New World was discovered by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, it was the Spanish Crown who funded the first voyage. It is largely because of the Spanish and its rule over most of these areas that so much of Latin cuisine as we know and love it spread around the world. In addition, many areas now use Latin American staples as much as things natively grown. As Spain is a nation situated on the…

the Medieval Inquisition but also guide those converting from Islam and Judaism. Unfortunately that guidance was a subject of a previous decree 's formed by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon. This inquisition began with the threat of the Jews down in the South of Spain- Sevilla. Through the pressures of Isabella and Ferdinand the inquisition quickly took place. Though the initial motif for the Spanish inquisition was to convert the Jews and…

clean. Old resorts in Spain are converted in accordance with the new trends, such as Benidorm and Torremolinos. In summary, all this presents Spain as the world's potential biggest tourist state. There are also negative features of the Spanish outbound tourism, among which - pronounced seasonality of tourist flows (Spain, despite its immense potential for cognitive organization, event, or even ski tours perceived as more than 70% of Europeans as a country of beach holiday). Spain is the…

ruling of Phillip III and later on King Phillip IV faced many different challenges in this emerging country called Spain. However, Spain did not exist at this time it was ruled under the Habsburg Empire. What I shall be discussing in this assignment is the strengths and weaknesses that the Spanish Monarchy faced. During the start of the 17th Century what was known as the Habsburg Spain which was very much on the brink at the end of the Golden Age and even though it kept its populous empire the…

tribes living in Roman Mauretania (modern day Algeria and Morocco). It has no ethnographic meaning but can be used to refer to all Muslims, Berber or Arab, who conquered the Iberian Peninsula. These Moors, who were religious fanatics, arrived in Spain in the year 711 and thus began a period of history which would shape Iberia differently than the rest of Europe as the land adapted to a new religion, language and culture. Hispania became a part of the caliph of Damascus which was the capital of…

quantity around the city of Valencia. Indeed, even today this customary Valencian paella can be found in a huge number of towns. (culture,2013) Bullfighting: Ancient bullrings in Seville and ronda attract many tourist. But some visitors express the sport as…