Spain occupies most of the Iberian Peninsula and is bordered by Portugal, France, and the Mediterranean Sea. Some of Spain's major holidays celebrate St. James, the Virgin Mary, Christmas, and Columbus Day. Bullfighting is a iconic part of Spanish culture along with the works of Miguel de Cervantes. Families traditionally eat large midday meals together and businesses close in the afternoon. Spanish communities have strong social controls and informal justice systems. The architecture and history of cities like Salamanca, Seville, Cordoba, and Granada are tourist attractions that showcase Moorish influences.

1. BY: AILYNE A. CLEOFE
HUMO4A

2. SPAIN
 Occupies about 85% of Iberian peninsula.
With Portugal on its western border.
The Pyrenees range separates Spain from France.
Atlantic Ocean washes Spain’s north cost, and northwest
corner adjacent to Portugal and southwestern zone
between Portuguese border and the Straight of Gibraltar.
Spain separated from North Africa on the south by the
Strait of Gibraltar and Mediterranean and Canary Islands
in the Atlantic, off the coast of Africa.

4. MELILLA

5. CEUTA

6. The patron of Spain is St. James the Greater or Santiago

7. Christopher
Columbus

8. Special holidays in Spain
July 25- National holiday, St. Santiago/Apostle James
the Greater day.
December 8 –Immaculate Conception/Mothers day.
Christmas day, New years day and Epiphany and
Easter.(national holidays)
March 19 – St. Joseph/Fathers day
June 21 –Midsummer Eve
June 24 – St John Day
October 12 – Columbus day/Dia de
Hispanedad(national holiday)

9. The Bull
 The complex of bull fighting tradition across Spain
and The figure of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
from Miguel de Cervantes novel of 1605

10. The Holy Family

11. Spanish Family and Culture,
comida and cena.
The family meals are important gathering times, even
in congested urban areas.
Most working people travel home to comida and
return to work afterwards.
1:00 or 2:00pm- most business are close and do not
re-open for afternoon business until 4:00 or 5:00pm
at the earliest depending upon the season-winter
bringing earlier afternoon hours than summer.
Banks and many offices have no afternoon hours.

12. Spanish Family

13. Food is the principal currency of
social exchange.

14. Spanish Culture
 The outward signs of social differences are embodied
in the degrees to which people can display their
material worth through their homes.
 Fashionable dress
 Jewelries
 Fashionable form of leisure
 Degrees to which their behavior reflects education ,
urbane and famously important as a sign of economic
well-being and social status.

15. Spain justice system
Serves citizen from local levels with justice of peace
and district courts through the level of the nations
supreme court and a separate Supreme Court for
constitutional interpretations.
The system is governed by civil and criminal codes.
Every Spanish locality is served by one another police
force.
Urban areas have municipal police forces while rural
areas and small pueblos are covered by the Guardia
Civil or Civil Guard.

16. Cont.
 Civil Guard which is a national police corps also
handles the policing of highway and other transit
systems and deals with national security, smuggling
and customs, national boundary security, and
terrorism.

17. Spanish Community
 Informal social controls are powerful forces in Spanish
communities of all sizes.
 In tightly clustered villages residents are always under
their neighbor’s observation, and potential criticism is
a strong deterrent against culturally defined
misconduct and failure to adhere to expected
standards.
 Many village communities rarely if ever activate the
official system of justice and law enforcement; gossip
and censure within the community and surveillance of
all by all, are often sufficient.

18. Spanish Culture and Beliefs
 Women perform men’s tasks when necessary but are
least likely to drive a plow or tractor.
 Men do women’s tasks when necessary- and many men
like to cook, but are least likely to do mending and,
above all, laundry.
 Married men and women run their domestic
economies and raise their children in partnership.
 Men and women pursue leisure separately, particularly
in public places.
 They gather with friends and neighbors of like sex and
the same age.

19. Cont.
 Men and women lead more separate lives than occurs
among the peasantry.
 Traditional divisions of male from female tasks are less
often breached. Where they have hired household help.
 The servants are likely women, and these are an old part of
the nation’s female work force, which is now expanding in
new directions.
 Domestic servants have always played a vital role in
communicating elite models to the peasantry and working
classes.
 Spain now permit divorce, so more Spanish women are
finding new kinds of freedom from their traditional role as
a wives and mothers.

20. Spanish Kids
 Infants are treated with affection and good humor and
scoldings are often accompanied by kisses.
 Teasing and taunting are not normal parts of adult’s
exchange with children.
 The birth of children is seen as a chief purpose of
marriage.
 Children of both sexes are valued and raised with
affection, even adoration, by parents, grandparents,
aunts and uncles, and older siblings.
 Children are expected to be loving in return.

21. Spanish kids

22. Spain’s Famous Places
The City Of Salamanca
Historical and
Architectural attractions include
The Romanesque old cathedral
As well as the new cathedral.

23. Seville – The city capital of
Andalusia.
One of the Spain’s central cities.
Don Juan de Carmen was one of the
Cities glories

24. Cordova – located in Andalusia
The most spectacular
Among the relicts is the
Mosque of Spain.
Constructed in 8th
century .
One of the Arab
masterpieces .

25. Granada- popular tourist attraction
is the Caves of Sacramonte.
“It is no greater misfortune than
to be blind in Granada”
Door of a cave house

26. Superb garden in Spain
 The city surrounded by the superb gardens of the
Generalife, with a big number of fountains and an
effective use of water that serves as a source of
refreshment during the hot days of summer.

27. Beautiful Spain

29. Spain’s art’s and Music

31. That’s it for today.!
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