Post on 17-Jan-2016
By: Kayla Nefedov
Take a Tour to Spain
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Geography
Geography 2
Geography 3
People
People 2
Religion
Economy
People 3People 3
Traditions
Fun FactHolidays
Holidays 2
Formula 1
Football
Bullfighting
Current Issues
Famous Food
FestivalsEducation
Geography
• The total area in Spain is 194,897 square miles.
• It is the second largest country in Western Europe and the European Union.
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Geography 2
• The Terrain is large, flat to dissected plateau surrounded by rugged hills.
• There Natural Resources are…..
coal, lignite, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, uranium, tungsten, mercury, pyrites, magnesite, fluorspar, gypsum, sepiolite, kaolin, potash, hydropower,they have arable land too.
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Geography 3
• Spain occupies about 85 percent of the Iberian Peninsula and is surrounded by water for about 88 percent of its periphery.
• The Mediterranean, the pacific, and the Contrarian sea all border Spain.
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People
• The population in Spain is 40,525,002 people.
• In Madrid the capital there is 5,130,000 people in the metro area.
• Barcelona , has 1,528,800 people because of it’s tourism.
• Life expectations for women are about 83 years old. Men live to be about 76. The births and deaths occur about every 1,000 people.
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People 2
• The head of the state is King Julian Carlos.
• The prime minister is Jose Luis’ Rodriguez Zapatero.
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People 3
• The language that the people speak are Castilian Spanish which is the official language. It also is the second most spoken language.
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Religion
• The chief religion is Roman Catholic which is 94%.
• The percentage for Muslims is growing.
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Economy
• The budget that Spain makes is 17.5 billion dollars.
• Finance dollars is Euro’s .68 is equal to $1.00 in U.S.A.
• The government type is a constitutional monarchy.
• There are lot’s of economy industries.
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Traditions
• In 2004 Barcelona declared itself an anti-bullfighting city , because of the bulls death.
• A myth in 1628 has it that a lizard of Jaen eats the local village people if they go to the local fountains. So every year they celebrate the knight who scared it away.
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Fun Fact
• Hot Chocolate in Spain is served very thick and very chocolaty – almost like warm pudding!
• Spain has over 8,000 kilometers of beaches.
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Holidays• Spain has many of the same holidays as
us.
• One of there unique holidays is on October 31 it’s called the Day of the Dead where they commemorate there dead loved ones
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Holidays 2Holiday: Date:
Day of the Dead October 31
Feliz’ Navidad’ December 25
La Tomatina August
Dia de Santiago
July 25
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Formula 1
• They also have a sport called Formula 1. It’s basically drag racing.
• It’s a dangerous sport it’s just as bad as bull fighting.
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Football
• Football is more than just a sport for the Spanish people it’s {a way of life} as some say. Football is not the American sport that you think of it’s like soccer here, but “football” there.
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Bullfighting
• Bullfighting is one of the best loved, and a national sport.
• origins back to 711 A.D
• People watching- it adds up to about 1 million every year
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Current Issues
• Like many other places a current issue is unemployment.
• They have laws that they want to have just like us.
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Famous Food
• They have lot’s of traditional dishes such as Basque cake a easy to make dessert.
• Flan is like a rice pudding and crembule, but without the rice.
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Festivals• Spain has the world’s biggest food fight ever
30,000 people throw tomato’s all around Spain!, it’s called La Tomatina.
• Celebration of the patron Saint of Spain. Fireworks, parades, televised mass, and it’s a National holiday. It’s called Dia de Santiago
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Education
• They have 6 hours of school like us, and go to school 5 days of the week.
• There classes are based on there age• Pre-school - 3 to 5 years of age• Primary School - six years of schooling - 6 to 11 years of
age• Compulsory Secondary Education four years of
schooling - 12 to 15 years of age• Post-Compulsory Schooling two years of schooling - 16
and 17 years of age
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Alphabet•
• A: a, B: be, C: ce, CH: che, D: de, E: e, F: efe, G: ge, H:hache, I:I, J:jota, K:kay,
L:ele,LL:elle,M:eme, N:ene, N:ene, O:o, P:pe, Q:cu, R:ere, S:ese, T:te, U:u V:ve, W:uve doble,
X:equis, Y:I griega, Z:zeta
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