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In this lesson, you will discover some cultural information about Life in Spain.

Life on the street in Spain

In Spain is much life in the street. The Spaniards are very out to the terraces, tapas, to walk, to shops ... The possibilities are thousands at any time of day, but quietly you can mix several, can be a normal day, go shopping, to eat something , Long table with coffee to which the friends join and so on until the evening. In the summer the sunlight lasts almost until 11 at night, 24 hours a day, 17 have sun. It is easy to understand that you want to be on the street and also a warm country.

Popular festivals

In Spain there is much tradition of popular festivals. In every city there are parties and millions of people from different cities and countries come every year to see and live them. There are many and varied, some of the best known festivals are: the Fallas, the Feria de Abril, the carnivals of Cadiz and Tenerife, the Tomatina, the Fiestas del Pilar, El Rocío, Moors and Christians Festivities, San Isidro, The Bonfires of San Juan, the Descent of the River Sella ...

The SIESTA

It sounds true, does not it? That little bit to sleep after eating, how good it feels! Ideally, it should last about thirty minutes. The best thing is that in addition to leaving us as new is scientifically demonstrated the benefits of siesta: improved health and circulation, and The siesta. A healthy Spanish habit makes you feel overwhelmed and stressed. It also promotes memory and learning mechanisms.

The schedules

Spain is a country with a lot of life. Shops open late, people on the street at all hours, bars and restaurants with ample schedules. We get up early and go to bed late. We have a thousand and one offers of leisure, ample business hours. Meals are also late, we eat between 2:00 pm and 3:00 pm, we have dinner around 9:00 pm.

Go for tapas

Tap or go out on skewers, is usually to have a drink with a skewer of food to accompany it. Tapas are served at most of the bars, usually they are taken up standing at the bar and it is very common to eat snacking tapas at various places. Statistically there is a bar every 169 inhabitants, and they are usually full, difficult to understand even for us. There are 279,243 establishments registered, more than in any European country

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