List of cultural icons of Spain

This List of cultural icons of Spain is a list of links to potential cultural icons of Spain.

Art, craft[]

• Santiago Calatrava, Alonzo Cano
• Salvador Dalí
• Antonio Gaudi, Francisco Goya, El Greco
• Guernica
• Las Meninas
• Joan Miró, Modernisme, Mudéjar, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
• Pablo Picasso
• The Persistence of Memory, Plateresque
• Antoni Tàpies
• The Third of May 1808
• Diego Velázquez
• Francisco de Zurbarán

Buildings[]

• Alcázar of Seville, Alcázar of Toledo, Alhambra, Aqueduct of Segovia
• Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, Burgos Cathedral
• Camp Nou, City of Arts and Sciences
• General Archive of the Indies, Generalife, Giralda
• El Escorial
• Torre del Oro, Tower of Hercules
• Llotja de la Seda
• Mezquita, Museo del Prado
• Park Güell, Plaza Mayor, Madrid, Poblet Monastery, Puente del Alamillo
• Roman Theatre of Mérida
• Royal Palace of Madrid
• Sagrada Família, Santa María de Guadalupe Monastery, Santa Maria del Mar, Barcelona, Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Seville Cathedral
• Toledo Cathedral

Emblems and symbols[]

• Coat of arms of Spain, Cross of Burgundy
• Flag of Spain
• Marcha Real
• Osborne bull

Festivals[]

• Carnival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• Encierro
• Falles
• La Tomatina
• Moros y cristianos
• Romería de El Rocío
• Festival of San Fermín
• San Sebastián International Film Festival

Food and drink[]

• Cuajada
• Escudella
• Gazpacho
• Jamón ibérico
• Migas
• Pa amb tomàquet, Paella, Patxaran, Pincho, Piperade, Puchero
• Rioja, Romesco
• Salmorejo, Sangria, Spanish omelette
• Tapas, Txakoli, Tombet, Tuna pot

Government[]

• Armada Española,
• Basque Nationalist Party, House of Bourbon
• Constitutional Court of Spain, Cortes Generales
• ETA
• Ibero-American Summit
• Law of Spain
• Monarchy of Spain
• People's Party (Spain), Philip VI of Spain, Political parties in Spain, Prime minister of Spain, PSOE
• Autonomous communities of Spain
• Spanish Army, Spanish Constitution of 1978

History and legend[]

• Al-Andalus, Aragon
• Black legend (Spain)
• Carlist Wars, Castile, El Cid, Conquistadors
• Don Juan
• Iberians, Iberian Union, Italian Wars
• Leon, Battle of Lepanto
• Marrano, Morisco
• Navarre
• Peninsular War
• Reconquista
• Spanish Armada, Spanish Golden Age, Spanish Empire, Spanish Inquisition
• Umayyad conquest of Hispania

Holidays[]

• Public holidays in Spain

Industry[]

• Aviaco
• EADS CASA, Endesa
• Iberia, Instituto Nacional de Industria
• Pegaso
• Renfe Operadora, Repsol S.A.
• SEAT
• Telefónica

Language[]

• Aranese language, Asturian language
• Basque language
• Cantabrian dialect, Catalan language
• Galician language
• Hispanophone
• Spanish language, Spanish language in the Americas

Literature, philosophy[]

• Mateo Alemán, La Araucana
• Camilo José Cela, Miguel de Cervantes
• Alonso de Ercilla
• Federico García Lorca, Amadis de Gaula, Luis de Góngora
• Juan Ramón Jiménez
• Lazarillo de Tormes, Luis de León
• Antonio Machado, Joanot Martorell, Tirso de Molina
• Antonio de Nebrija
• José Ortega y Gasset
• Francisco Suarez
• Tirant lo Blanch
• Francisco de Quevedo, Don Quixote
• Miguel de Unamuno
• Garcilaso de la Vega, Francisco de Vitoria, Juan Luis Vives

Music[]

• Isaac Albéniz
• David Bisbal
• José Carreras, Castanets
• Plácido Domingo
• Manuel de Falla, Flamenco, Flamenco guitar, Lola Flores
• Enrique Granados
• Hinds
• Julio Iglesias, Enrique Iglesias, Camarón de la Isla
• Paco de Lucía
• Joaquín Rodrigo, Rosalía
• Alejandro Sanz, Andrés Segovia
• Tomás Luis de Victoria
• Zarzuela

People[]

• Pope Alexander VI, The Iron Duke of Alba, Alfonso X of Castile, Diego de Almagro, Pedro de Alvarado
• Santiago Carrillo, Don Carlos, Charles I of Spain, Charles III of Spain, Hernán Cortés
• Vincent Ferrer, Francisco Franco
• El Gran Capitan, Felipe González
• Ignatius of Loyola
• John of the Cross, Juan Carlos I
• Adolfo Nicolás, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
• Severo Ochoa, Count-Duke of Olivares
• Pelagius of Asturias, Philip II of Spain, Philip III of Spain, Philip IV of Spain, Francisco Pizarro, Juan Ponce de León
• Miguel Servet, Queen Sofía of Spain, Adolfo Suárez
• Teresa of Ávila, Tomás de Torquemada
• Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
• Francis Xavier

Places[]

• Alcalá de Henares, Ávila
• Barcelona, Burgos
• Canary islands
• El Camino de Santiago, Córdoba, A Coruña, Cuenca
• Doñana National Park
• Elche
• Gernikako Arbola, Granada, Guadalajara
• Ibiza
• Lugo
• Madrid, Majorca, La Mancha, Menorca
• Oviedo
• Pamplona
• El Rocío
• Salamanca, Segovia, Seville
• Tenerife, Toledo
• Valencia, Valladolid, Vía de la Plata
• World Heritage Sites in Spain
• Zaragoza

Shopping, money[]

• El Corte Inglés
• Dobla, Doubloon
• Escudo
• Plaza
• SEPU

Sport[]

• Fernando Alonso, Xabi Alonso, Atlético Madrid
• Carolina Marín
• Vicente del Bosque, FC Barcelona
• Iker Casillas, El Clásico, Alberto Contador
• Juan Carlos Ferrero
• Pau Gasol, Raúl González Blanco, Pep Guardiola
• Xavi Hernández
• Athletic Bilbao
• Mireia Belmonte
• Miguel Indurain, Andrés Iniesta
• Lydia Valentín
• La Liga
• Rafael Nadal, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Carla Suárez, Garbiñe Muguruza
• Dani Pedrosa, Carles Puyol
• Real Madrid C.F., Real Madrid Baloncesto
• Carlos Sainz, Sevilla FC, Spain national football team
• Fernando Torres
• Valencia CF, David Villa, Vuelta a España

Television, film, theatre[]

• Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Pedro Almodóvar, Alejandro Amenábar
• Antonio Banderas, Javier Bardem, Luis Buñuel
• Penélope Cruz, Pedro Calderón de la Barca
• Juan del Encina, Victor Erice
• Jesús Franco
• Francisco Rabal, Jean Reno, Fernando Rey
• Carlos Saura
• Spanish Golden Age theatre
• Paz Vega, Lope de Vega

See also[]

• Cultural icon
• Culture of Spain
• List of missing landmarks in Spain
• List of cultural icons of England
• List of cultural icons of Germany
• List of cultural icons of Italy
• List of cultural icons of Japan
• List of cultural icons of the Netherlands
• List of cultural icons of Northern Ireland
• List of cultural icons of Russia
• List of cultural icons of Scotland
• List of cultural icons of Wales