Discovery of America.
-Different boats used
-Outcomes of the discovery.
o The Peral Submarine.
o Autogyro.
o Spanish Art.
-Literature: Jose Cela,Lorca;Cervantes
-Painting:Velazquez,Picasso,Goya
-Music:Paco de Lucia
o Gastronomy
-Tapas
-Celler de Can Roca.
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On October 12th of 1492 an expedition which leader was
Colon arrived for the first time in a unknown continent,
that years later was going to be called America.
Colon made four trips:
• The Spanish tripulation of Colon travelled several times to
that continent, 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. In 1502 they
started to colonised the continent.
The discovery of America has been considered one of the
most important discoveries in the world.
Regions where Spanish is spoken
List of languages by number
of native speakers…
Spanish is the second!
 Since
the discovery of America, a lot of
products originated there and have spread all
around the world.Those products still being so
important in our rutinary diet.
 Cacao:
Tomato:
Potato:
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Also known as gyroplane, gyrocopter, or
rotaplane.
Similar to a helicopter rotor in appearance, the
autogyro's rotor must have air flowing through
the rotor disc to generate rotation
Invented by the Spanish engineer Juan de la
Cierva to create an aircraft that could fly safely
at slow speeds, the autogyro was first flown on
9 January 1923, at Cuatro Vientos Airfield in
Madrid
 The
term Autogiro was a trademark of the
Cierva Autogiro Company.
 Isaac
Peral y Caballero (Cartagena, 1
June 1851 – 22 May 1895, Berlin), was a
Spanish engineer, naval officer and
designer of the Peral submarine.
 The Peral Submarine was the first
torpedo submarine invented and few
years after was sold to the germans.
 Nowadays is the base of the actual
submarines.
Literature: Cervantes
Painting: Goya
Music: Paco de Lucía
Camilo José Cela
Federico Garcia Lorca
Miguel de Cervantes
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García
was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre
director.
 He was a self tahouhgt person since he was
young.
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García Lorca achieved international recognition
as an emblematic member of the Generation of
'27. He was executed by Nationalist forces during
the Spanish Civil War
 Known as the most popular author of Spanish
literature.
 He was executed during the civil war
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 Impresiones
y paisajes (Impressions and
Landscapes 1918)
 Libro de poemas (Book of Poems 1921)
 Poema del cante jondo (Poem of Deep
Song; written in 1921 but not published
until 1931)
 Suites (written between 1920 and 1923,
published posthumously in 1983)
-was a Spanish novelist, short story writer and
essayist associated with the Generation of '36
movement.
-He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in
Literature "for a rich and intensive prose, which
with restrained compassion forms a challenging
vision of man's vulnerability“.
Works:
La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942)
Pabellón de reposo (1943)
Esas nubes que pasan (1945)
El bonito crimen del carabinero y otras invenciones
(1947)
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One of Spain's most famous writers, Miguel de
Cervantes created one of the world's greatest literary
masterpieces, Don Quijote, in the early 1600s.
Miguel de Cervantes was born near Madrid in 1547.
He became a soldier in 1570 and was badly wounded
in the Battle of Lepanto. Captured by the Turks in 1575,
de Cervantes spent five years in prison.
Cervantes finally achieved literary success in his later
years, publishing the first part of in 1605. He died in
1616.
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Was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of
King Philip IV and one of the most important painters of the
Spanish Golden Age.
He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque
period, important as a portrait artis.
Famous modern artists, including Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and
Francis Bacon, have paid tribute to Velázquez by recreating
several of his most famous works.
Meninas recreated
by Picasso
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Also known as Pablo Picasso was a Spanish
painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist,
stage designer, poet and playwright who
spent most of his adult life in France.
One of the greatest and most influential artists
of the 20th century, he is known for cofounding the Cubist movement, the invention
of constructed sculpturethe co-invention of
collage, and for the wide variety of styles that
he helped develop and explore.
Famous paintings: Guernica and Les
Demoiselles d'Avignon
 Sometimes
called the
father of modern art,
Spanish artist Francisco
de Goya painted royal
portraits as well as
more subversive works
in late 1700s and early
1800s
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Francisco de Goya was born on March 30, 1746, Spain.
He began his art studies as a teenager and even spent
time in Rome, Italy, to advance his skills. In 1770s, Goya
began to work for Spanish royal court. He created
works that criticized the social and political problems
of his era.
 Born
in Spain , 1947, Paco de Lucia rose into
a musical giant who blended jazz, pop and
classical influences with the tradition of
flamenco.
 De Lucía was noted for his fast and fluent
picados (fingerstyle runs). A master of
contrast, he often juxtaposed picados and
rasgueados (Flamenco strumming) with
more sensitive playing and was known for
adding abstract chords and scale tones to
his compositions with jazz influences.
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Spain is known for its good food, we have the
Mediterranean diet is based on very healthy food.
Modern kitchen is famous restaurants like Celler
de can Roca'and 'El Bulli' as well as traditional.
To cook in Spain is very typical use fresh products.
 Modern
kitchen is well known in our country.
The second best restaurant in the world is
Spanish, it is called ´El celler de can Roca´. Spain
is the only country that can boast of having three
restaurants in the list of the ten best restaurants
in the world. “El celler de can Roca” is in second
place. ”Mugaritz” is in sixth place and “Arzak” is
in eighth place.
El Celler de Can Roca is a restaurant in Girona, Catalonia, Spain which
was opened in 1986 by the Roca brothers, Joan, Josep and Jordi.
The cuisine served by the restaurant is traditional Catalan, but with twists
to the extent that the Michelin Guide describes it as "creative”.
 2011: 2.º
best worlds restaurant by
Restaurant.
 2012: 2.ºbest worlds restaurant by
Restaurant.
 2013: BEST worlds restaurant by
Restaurant.
 2014: 2º best worlds restaurant by
Restaurant.
Tapas are a wide variety of appetizers, or snacks, in
Spanish cuisine. They may be cold or hot. In select bars
in Spain, tapas have evolved into an entire, and
sometimes sophisticated, cuisine.