Capital: Madrid Time Time zone: GMT+1, -2 hours Moscow time. On the Canary Islands -3 hours to Moscow. Electricity The voltage in electrical networks is 220 volts. Transport Public transport is quite well developed in Spain, operates on a tight schedule...
The period that opens with the collapse of democracy (1939) under the impact of the civil war and the advent of Franco’s dictatorship, which forced the most eminent personalities of the Spanish musical world into exile, led to a profound involution...
The name Spain derives from Hispania, the name by which the Romans geographically designated the whole of the Iberian Peninsula, this term in turn, derived from the name Iberia, preferred by Greek authors to refer to the same space. However, the fact that the term...
Canary Islands, Canaries, Spanish Islas Canarias [“Dog Islands”; called “Canaria” by Pliny the Elder because of the large number of dogs observed there], Spanish archipelago in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa, also a Spanish autonomous region, 7 447...
