Spain is popular with the Germans great popularity, some eleven million citizens spend annually their holidays in sunny Kingdom. The country offers not only sun, beach and sea. The wide variety is to Spain makes it a dream destination for tourists, but also for students. Here are facts, curiosities and collected the known and less known about the country for you:
- Spain is as big as Germany, Austria and Switzerland together. It is the country with around 46 million people but only half as many inhabitants. About 78 percent of the population lives in cities. Spain has two million inhabitants, Madrid (3.3 million inhabitants) and Barcelona (1.6 million inhabitants).
In Spain many people think of sea and sunny beaches, and not without reason. As for the English territory includes the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean. These islands are not counted with the country has an impressive coastline of 3144 kilometers, of which about 2,000 km of beaches. More than just a beach in Spain with an average height of 660 meters above sea level to Switzerland at the same time the most mountainous country in Europe. In the north, the Pyrenees, the French border in the south stands the massif of the Sierra Nevada. In the interior is dominated by the barren high plateau area, divided and surrounded by several mountain ranges.
- Spain knows its particular climatic conditions - Up to 50 degrees in summer in the southeast of the country or heavy rains in spring and autumn in the north - to use: renewable energies in power generation play an increasingly important role. Meanwhile, about 20.5 percent of the generated
stream come from renewable energy. Is used mainly wind and solar energy. Spain also has the largest solar power plant in Europe and will expand its capacity in this area.
- The regional diversity is held up in Spain. Spaniards feel primarily as Castilians, Basques, Andalusians, Catalans, Galician, or Levantine Mallorcan. This diversity is also reflected in the languages of the country (more on that in our text for the languages of Spain ). This is Castilian or English the official language. Moreover, in the corresponding Autonomous Catalan, Galician, Basque, Valencian, Majorcan and Aranese an official status.
- The English daily life is different today, although only slightly from that of other European countries, but there are some interesting differences. Lunch, the most important meal of the day is eaten between zwei und drei clock in the afternoon. For the subsequent period of rest in the afternoon heat, the siesta, bleibt den meisten Spaniern aber heute keine Zeit mehr. Dennoch sind viele kleinere Geschäfte bis vier oder fünf Uhr nachmittags geschlossen, um dafür bis in die Abendstunden zu öffnen. Das Abendessen findet demensprechend erst gegen neun oder zehn Uhr am Abend statt.
- Die spanische Küche ist regional sehr unterschiedlich. Fisch und Meeresfrüchte spielen traditionell eine wichtige Rolle. Besonders bekannt sind Tapas (span. für Deckel, Abdeckung), von denen es die unterschiedlichsten Varianten gibt. Diese kleinen Mahlzeiten werden kalt oder warm als Appetithäppchen typischerweise in Tapas-Bars gereicht. Typische Tapas sind Oliven, Käse, verschieden zubereiteter Fisch und Meeresfrüchte sowie kleine Tortilla edges. Here are some tapas much more than simple snacks. Often they are elaborately prepared and attractively presented smaller versions of main meals.
- national sport is number one in Spain certainly football. In the top division of the English League, La Liga, some of the best football players and clubs are located in the world. Internationally known and very successful, especially the clubs Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Valencia, the FD, which together have won 35 trophies already in international tournaments. The English national team is international, however, less spoiled by success. 1964 and 2008, the European champion Spain, a world title is still pending. Currently, the English men are, however, first place in the FIFA world rankings , which gives hope for the World Cup in the summer.
provide basic information about Spain including the online reference Wikipedia and the portal wissen.de . A several hundred-page portrait of modern Spain, the English government in English and English available at www.eu2010.es (PDF File / 18.5 MB).
Images: beach: © Manfred Walker / PIXELIO, solar thermal power plant: Wikipedia
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