Speak the Culture: Spain: Be Fluent in Spanish Life and Culture

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1. Identity: the
   building blocks of
   2. Literature
   and philosophy
   3. Art and
   architecture
   4. Performing
   arts
   5. Cinema
   and fashion
   6. Media and
   communications
   7. Food and drink 8. Living culture:
   the details of

Spain’s islands

The Balearics, with their prime mid-Med

location, and the Canaries, equally blessed

with sun and sand, are autonomous

Spanish communities in their own right.

Both island groups have undergone

phenomenal change in recent decades

yet both have also clung – with varying

degrees of success – to their roots.