List of cultural icons of Spain
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Torero at the Bullfighting
Flamenco dancer
Gazpacho soup
This List of cultural icons of Spain is a list of links to potential cultural icons of Spain.
Art, craft
- Santiago Calatrava, Alonzo Cano
- Salvador Dali
- Antonio Gaudi, Francisco Goya, El Greco, Guernica
- Las Meninas, Joan Miró, Modernisme, Mudéjar, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
- Pablo Picasso, The Persistence of Memory, Plateresque
- Antoni Tàpies, The Third of May 1808
- Diego Velázquez
- Francisco de Zurbarán
Buildings
- Alcázar of Seville, Alcázar of Toledo, Alhambra, Aqueduct of Segovia
- Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, Burgos Cathedral
- Camp Nou, City of Arts and Sciences
- General Archive of the Indies, Generalife, Giralda
- El Escorial
- Torre del Oro, Tower of Hercules
- Llotja de la Seda
- Mezquita, Museo del Prado
- Park Güell, Plaza Mayor, Madrid, Poblet Monastery, Puente del Alamillo
- Royal Palace of Madrid
- Sagrada Família, Santa María de Guadalupe Monastery, Santa Maria del Mar, Barcelona, Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Seville Cathedral
- Toledo Cathedral
Emblems and symbols
Festivals
- Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- Encierro
- Falles
- La Tomatina
- Moros y cristianos
- San Fermín, San Sebastián International Film Festival
Food and drink
- Cuajada
- Escudella
- Gazpacho
- Jamón ibérico
- Migas
- Pa amb tomàquet, Paella, Patxaran, Pincho, Piperade, Puchero
- Rioja, Romesco
- Salmorejo, Sangria, Spanish omelette
- Tapas, Txakoli, Tombet, Tuna pot
Government
- Armada Espanola,
- Basque Nationalist Party, House of Bourbon
- Constitutional Court of Spain, Cortes Generales
- ETA
- Ibero-American Summit
- Law of Spain
- Monarchy of Spain
- People's Party (Spain), Philip VI of Spain, Political parties in Spain, Prime minister of Spain, PSOE
- Autonomous communities of Spain
- Spanish Army, Spanish Constitution of 1978
History and legend
- Al-Andalus, Aragon
- Black Legend
- Carlist Wars, Castile, El Cid, Conquistadors
- Don Juan
- Iberians, Iberian Union, Italian Wars
- Leon, Battle of Lepanto
- Marrano, Morisco
- Navarre
- Peninsular War
- Reconquista
- Spanish Armada, Spanish Golden Age, Spanish Empire, Spanish Inquisition
- Umayyad conquest of Hispania
Holidays
Industry
- Aviaco
- EADS CASA, Endesa
- Instituto Nacional de Industria
- Pegaso
- Renfe Operadora, Repsol S.A.
- SEAT
- Telefónica
Language
- Aranese language, Asturian language
- Basque language
- Cantabrian dialect, Catalan language
- Galician language
- Hispanophone
- Spanish language, Spanish language in the Americas
Literature, philosophy
- Mateo Alemán, La Araucana
- Camilo José Cela, Miguel de Cervantes
- Alonso de Ercilla
- Federico García Lorca, Amadis de Gaula, Luis de Góngora
- Juan Ramón Jiménez
- Lazarillo de Tormes, Luis de León
- Antonio Machado, Joanot Martorell, Tirso de Molina
- Antonio de Nebrija
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Francisco Suarez
- Tirant lo Blanch
- Francisco de Quevedo, Don Quixote
- Miguel de Unamuno
- Garcilaso de la Vega, Francisco de Vitoria, Juan Luis Vives
Music
- Isaac Albéniz
- David Bisbal
- José Carreras, Castanets
- Plácido Domingo
- Manuel de Falla, Flamenco, Flamenco guitar, Lola Flores
- Enrique Granados
- Julio Iglesias, Enrique Iglesias, Camarón de la Isla
- Paco de Lucía
- Joaquín Rodrigo
- Andrés Segovia
- Ska-P
- Tomás Luis de Victoria
- Zarzuela
People
- Pope Alexander VI, The Iron Duke of Alba, Alfonso X of Castile, Diego de Almagro, Pedro de Alvarado
- Santiago Carrillo, Don Carlos, Charles I of Spain, Charles III of Spain, Hernán Cortés
- Vincent Ferrer, Francisco Franco
- El Gran Capitan, Felipe González
- Ignatius of Loyola
- John of the Cross, Juan Carlos I
- Adolfo Nicolás, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
- Severo Ochoa, Count-Duke of Olivares
- Pelagius of Asturias, Philip II of Spain, Philip III of Spain, Philip IV of Spain, Francisco Pizarro, Juan Ponce de León
- Miguel Servet, Queen Sofía of Spain, Adolfo Suárez
- Teresa of Ávila, Tomás de Torquemada
- Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
- Francis Xavier
Places
- Ávila
- Barcelona, Burgos
- El Camino de Santiago, Córdoba, A Coruña, Cuenca
- Doñana National Park
- Elche
- Gernikako Arbola, Granada, Guadalajara
- Ibiza
- Lugo
- Madrid, Majorca, La Mancha, Minorca
- Oviedo
- Pamplona
- Salamanca, Segovia, Seville
- Tenerife, Toledo
- Valencia, Valladolid, Vía de la Plata
- World Heritage Sites in Spain
- Zaragoza
Shopping, money
Sport
- Fernando Alonso, Xabi Alonso, Atlético Madrid
- Vicente del Bosque
- Iker Casillas, El Clásico, Alberto Contador
- Juan Carlos Ferrero
- Pau Gasol, Raúl González Blanco, Pep Guardiola
- Xavi Hernández
- Miguel Indurain, Andrés Iniesta
- La Liga
- Rafael Nadal
- Dani Pedrosa, Carles Puyol
- Real Madrid C.F., Real Madrid Baloncesto
- Carlos Sainz, Sevilla FC, Spain national football team
- Fernando Torres
- Valencia CF, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, David Villa, Vuelta a España
Television, film, theatre
- Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Pedro Almodóvar, Alejandro Amenábar
- Antonio Banderas, Javier Bardem, Luis Bunuel
- Penelope Cruz, Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Juan del Encina
- Jean Reno
- Spanish Golden Age theatre
- Paz Vega, Lope de Vega
See also
- Cultural icon
- Culture of Spain
- List of missing monuments in Spain
- List of cultural icons of England
- List of cultural icons of Germany
- List of cultural icons of Italy
- List of cultural icons of the Netherlands
- List of cultural icons of Northern Ireland
- List of cultural icons of Russia
- List of cultural icons of Scotland
- List of cultural icons of Wales
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