pic 1 was taken in plaza mayor, the main square of madrid. pic 2 is from the guadarrama mountains. pic 3 was taken in the retiro park. pic 5 depicts a stand in el rastro, the largest flea market in the country. pic 6 was taken in the congreso de los diputados, the national parliament of spain. in pic 7 you can see the cuatro torres, the four tallest buildings in spain and a financial hub. pic 8 shows the city during the filomena storm in january 2021, the heaviest snowfall in over a century with up to 60 cm of snow and -15 ºC. pic 9 shows the san isidro prairie, where the main festivities of the city take place. finally, pic 10 was taken in tirso de molina square.
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I drew my old #flamencadress now that we just started the spring festivities. The original one has three printed frills in place of two, but I didn't remember it 😄 I wanted to practice with #Procreate in my #iPadpro and this came out. . #illustration #ipadart #procreateartist #flamenco #trajedeflamenca #flamencodress #andalucia #andalusian #typicalspanish #flamenca #ireneroga #trajesdeflamenca #fiestasdeprimavera https://www.instagram.com/p/BwfK3N4FEy7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ow20tx8vmvpn
pic 2 is taken from félix. pic 4 depicts a street market; an indalo, the symbol of almería, can be seen hung on the house's wall in the center of the photo. pics 5 and 6 are from the port of almería. pic 7 shows a muslim woman; almost 20% of almería's population are immigrants, mostly from morocco. signs in both spanish and arabic can be seen all throughout the province, and the port of almería offers regular routes with tanger. pic 8 is from an espartero, a traditional artisan that weaves esparto into baskets and other objects. esparto only grows in southeastern spain, and as such it is a traditional craft of that area. finally, pics 9 and 10 depict parts of the cabo de gata-níjar natural park, the most famous part of the province.
i just found this article from february (2022) in which they list the most listened to artist from each spanish province. i thought it would be fun to list them here with a link to one of their songs in case you want to listen to more spanish music and don't know where to start!
everything will be under the cut, as there's 50 provinces (plus the 2 autonomous cities, also listed!)
pic 1 is from belesar, a parroquia of vilalba, right next to the miño dam. pics 2, 6 and 7 depict the as catedrais beach, the most famous beach in the galician coast. pic 5 shows the isla pancha lighthouse, in ribadeo. pic 8 was taken in rinlo, a parroquia of ribadeo. pic 9 shows some pilgrimages in the camino de santiago near palas de rei. the camino de santiago (way of st. james) is one of the three great pilgrimages of christiandom. finally, pic 10 depicts polbo á feira, one of the most iconic dishes of galician gastronomy.
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I know there's a lot going on in the world, and that there are more pressing issues, but I thought it would be of use to share what's happening in my country.
First, a bit of backstory. After the 2019 elections, the far-right political party VOX entered in the Spanish parliament, and hasn't stopped getting more and more traction since.
What this has done is legitimize and accept their hateful discourse in media and the parliament. All of the racists, homophobes, mysoginistic fascists members of the party have polarized society, creating more hate than ever and even polarizing political parties; the right-wing traditional party, PP, is getting closer and closer to VOX's ideology as time passes, and some of their members share the same values and ideas (basically, they're fascists).
Although some individual members of left-wing political parties have stood up to them in the parliament and local assemblies, as a whole they really haven't done much to stop them; and the media is even encouraging all these people to have a platform, as they are more polemic and thus, get more views.
This has created, as I have said, a escalation of hate throughout the country:
VOX targeted MENAs (Unaccompanied Migrant Minors) in their Madrid government campaign this past May (btw, the judges who were investigating the diffamatory posters they put on the metro just ruled that there's no reason to call them that and deemed them as harmless 🙃), along with generally spreading bullshit against immigrants, and last month, a 31 year old Moroccan immigrant living in Mazarrón (Murcia), Younes Bilal, was brutally murdered by a former military officer.
VOX calls the feminist movement a "lobby" and advocates for the defense of the "traditional family", and nearly every other day a case of a woman killed by gender-based reasons hits the news, as well as fucked up events like a husband who drowned himself and his two daughters after kidnaping them off the coast of Tenerife to make his ex-wife suffer.
VOX also is against same-sex marriage, has voted against every LGBT law the government has proposed, and lots of members say pretty fucking homophobic stuff on a daily basis. This last month, and especially this weekend, the violence has quickly escalated, and there have been multiple reports on hatecrimes against people for their sexuality, the last two ones being reported today (July 6th). Here's a post I made with a sign showing off all the reported attacks leading up to Samuel's death.
And now we get to Samuel. Samuel Luiz, a 24 year old nurse from A Coruña (Galicia) was beaten to death by 13 guys on July 3rd 2021. Here, here, here and here are some articles I found on the topic in English if you want to read all the story. After it made the news, an avalanche of protests protesting Samuel's death and the escalation of homphobia were set up for monday, July 5th, which was yesterday at the time I'm writing this post. Here are some pictures I've gathered from twitter :
Sources: x, x, x, x
Here's an Instagram post by a Spanish news agency with more photos
I don't know how to post videos so here's a twitter post with a video of the manifestation, and here's another one, this time in A Coruña, where Samuel was from.
As you can see, these are all pacific protests. Well, the police force went on to attack the protesters with no reason whatsoever; it was especially brutal in Madrid.
Sources: x, x
@spainonymous (a great account to follow) posted a video of the police bashing on protesters, and here you can find a thread with both pics and videos of the whole thing. Here is a video of one of the cops encouraging a fellow cop to beat some protesters.
Thankfully, people on Twitter worked fast, and during last night and today they have been tweeting out to the official account of the police force denouncing the cops that can be seen in the videos with their identification number. If you have Twitter, it would help us a lot if you can also do this, you just have to copy paste this and this tweet!
Also, if I have something wrong, feel free to correct me, and also add whatever you want, please!!
First of all, thanks to @41r3d3141m3n4 for reminding me of this, I had completely forgotten oops
Anyways, so, I am planning on doing posts for vernacular traditional architectural styles in Spain, but first I wanted to make a post about where most of the people live, the everyday types of buildings usually used and stuff. I've basically gone through a wild ride on google maps trying to get examples of everything, and I'll try to present them to you below as best as I can. I'll probably forget some, and of course there'll be variations from region to region, but I think it's a fair look at how people usually live here.
So, first of all, we have five types of homes: pisos, adosados, chalets / chalés, parcelas, and casas de pueblo. Most people live in pisos i.e. apartments, both in urban and rural areas, as I'll detail below, but there's also examples of the other types. Here's an easy way to distinguish them just so you know what I'm talking about:
Piso: an apartment building, it can be new or old, and be inside of an apartment complex or not. They come in various forms, and once again, they're the most common type of home.
Adosado: individual houses that are physically linked to the next house and usually look the same. Think of the typical London or New York houses, that kinda stuff.
Chalet: individual houses, just like in the USA; and almost always with a fence surrounding them, we don't do the open yards here.
Parcela: similar to a Chalet, it's an individual house, but with a large terrain surrounding it that shelters it from neighbors. Unlike Chalets, they are always found in rural settings, in the middle of the road far from the ruban center, and the land is normally used for farming and / or landscaping (most of them have pools for example).
Casa de pueblo: Literally translates to 'town house', these are houses found in, surprise surprise, rural settings. They come in a variety of forms but normally only have one or two floors, and they are very cozy but very cold.
With that, below you'll find all the categories and distinctions between the different types of domestic buildings I could think of / find, hope you enjoy it :)
Let's start with an urban context. Here, almost everyone lives in apartments, and there are three main types of them:
In the city center you have pretty but overpriced historical buildings (along with other more modern buildings, but those vary from city to city and are more difficult to picture as a group):
In the city center and especially in the peripheria you have the brick buildings normally built in the 60s, usually with those classic green canopies but not necessarilly, where most of the lower and middle class live; these are the most common type of residential buildings in Spain by far:
There's also, this time almost exclusively in the peripheria, more modern apartment complexes with wide roads that were built in the early 2000s, before the 2008 crisis started (they were a pretty big factor in it, it's a whole thing). Mostly middle class and middle upper class live here:
Apart from the residential buildings and complexes, middle, upper middle, and upper class living in the peripheria can also live in adosados:
Finally, chalets are reserved for upper middle and upper class (although this varies from city to city; the smaller it is, the more affordable chalets are) in the most peripheric areas of the cities. There's also some parcelas in the metropolitan areas as well even if I don't show them here:
In rural contexts, things change a bit, although not as much as one would think. For starters, especially in larger towns, the main homes are still pisos:
There's also more chalets, adosados, and parcelas than in cities, and way cheaper as well!
But, most of the towns (and again, this depends on the region) are comprised of streets like the ones below, with an amalgamation of casas de pueblo and smaller pisos than the ones in the cities:
Finally, I wanted to highlight some regional varieties that you might have noticed already. There are some very specific ones and I only have one photo left before I hit the limit so I'll just talk about the most general / well-known ones, sorry:
In the south, mostly Andalucía and Badajoz, houses are mostly white with a unique Andalusian aesthetic to them
In the northwest they prefer these very characteristic grey buildings like the ones you'll see below, perfect for humid weather
In Euskadi the houses are also very distinct, with a unique look to them hard to explain
pic 1 is from the la barceloneta beach, in barcelona. pic 2 is from sitges. pic 3 is from el raval, a barrio in barcelona. pic 4 shows vilanova i la geltrú during the sant joan festivities, in which huge bonfires are set up throughout the country but especially in catalonia, valència and balears. pic 5 was taken at the la boqueria market. pic 7 depicts parc güell, in barcelona. pic 8 was taken in dels pescadors beach, in badalona. pic 9 shows a book marketplace during the sant jordi festivities, the main festivities in barcelona city. in this day, it is tradition to gift a book and a rose to loved ones.
