Spain has a varied landscape due to its mountainous terrain and varied weather. Its geography and strategic location have led to cultural diversity from many invading and colonizing peoples throughout history such as the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, and Muslims. Spain built a vast empire in the 1500s and 1600s after the discovery of America, leading to a golden age of Spanish culture, though it later declined and lost its colonies. After a civil war in the 1930s and dictatorship until the 1970s, Spain transitioned to democracy and joined the European Union in 1986. Today it has a population of 46 million and is a top tourist and fishing country known for its diverse regions, festivals, and cuisine.

1. Spain
Geography and History

2. GEOGRAPHY IS IMPORTANT

3. Relief. Mountainous Country

4. Weather. Several ones.

5. Result: Varied Landscape

6. Plains

7. Mountains

8. Cliffs and beaches

9. Plantations. Olive-trees

10. Deserts

11. Cultural diversity and mix of
population (crossroad)

12. Prehistory. There is no scripture; only material remains. Paintings,
Monuments.PREHISTORIA
There is no scripture; only material remains
only material remains:
* Paintings
* Monuments

13. Prehistoric Cultures

14. Painting. Cave of Altamira.

15. Monuments. (Architecture).

16. History: Colonizer, native and
invader peoples:
 Celts (Gallics) ( VIII BC)
 Greeks (VII BC)
 Carthaginians (V BC)
 Iberians (III BC)
 Romans (II BC)
 Visigoths (Germans) ( V AC)
 Muslims (VIII AC).
 Phoenicians ( X BC
Century)

17. Phoenicians

18. Celts (Gallics)

19. Greeks

20. Iberians

21. Romans

22. Romans II

23. German Peoples (or “Barbarians”)
Visigoths

24. German Peoples (or “Barbarians”)
Visigoths

25. Muslims (800 years)

26. Muslims I

27. Muslims II

28. Middle Age: Christian vs. Muslims
fights

29. Modern Age:
 Discovery of America
 Spanish Empire
 Spanish Hegemony (1500 – 1650)
 Golden Age (of Culture).

30. Discovery of America

31. Arrival to America

32. Products brought from America

33. Potatoes

34. Pepper

35. Chocolate

36. Products and animals taken to
America

37. Grapes

38. Olive tree

39. Sugar cane

40. Horses

41. Spanish Empire (XVI Century)

42. Spanish Golden Age (Culture)

43. Velázquez: Las Meninas

44. Spanish Decay: Succession War

45. Spanish Losses.

46. XIX Century. Independence War
(1808 – 1814)

47. I Spanish Republic (1868 – 1874)

48. Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera
(1923-1930)

49. II Republic (1931-1936)

50. Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

51. Dictatorship of Franco (1939-1975)

52. Flag during the Dictatorship

53. Democracy (1977-...)

54. Flag of the Democracy

55. Spanish Entrance in the European
Union(1986)

56. Current Spain
 Population: 46 millions of inhabitants.
 29 th in the popultion scale made up of 196
countries.
 First fishing power in the EU.
 Second touristic power in the World.

57. Origin of tourists

58. English personages in the Spanish
History I: The Black Prince

59. English personages in the Spanish
History II: Catherine of Lancaster

60. English personages in the Spanish
History III: Duke of Wellington

61. English personages in the Spanish
History IV: Queen Victoria Eugenia
of Battenberg

62. Victoria Eugenia (II): Royal consort
of Alfonso XIII of Spain

63. George Orwell
(writer and journalist) took part in
the Spanish Civil War in support of
the II Republic

64. Spanish personages in the Great
Britain History I: Catalina de
Aragón

65. Spanish personages in the Great
Britain History II: Philippe II

66. Varied tourism

67. Beach

68. Ski

69. Green tourism (trekking)

70. Jacobean Way

71. Jacobean Way II

72. Festivities I: Sanfermines

73. Festivities II: “Fallas” of Valencia

74. Festivities III: Seville Fair

75. Gastronomy I: paella

76. Gastronomy II: (sardines)

77. Gastronomy III: salmorejo

78. Gastronomy IV: ham

79. Spain: An alluring country full of
contrasts and diversity.
Many thanks.
Text, photo selection and design: Translation: Alberto Rubio
Rafael Jiménez