Pedro's coming-of-age gift to El Cid was his pick of a horse from an Andalusian herd.

In the same period of the early Renaissance, the Carthusian monks of southern Spain bred horses and kept meticulous pedigrees of the best bloodstock ; the lineage survives to this day in the Andalusian horse.

An Andalusian horse | Andalusian at the passage

Oñate is mounted atop his Andalusian horse while holding the La Toma declaration in his right hand.

Destriers were heavier, similar to today's Andalusian horse, but not as large as the modern draft horse.

* Andalusian horse, a type of horse

A horse lover and riding enthusiast since childhood, she owns Andalusian horses and is a spokesperson for the Animal Welfare Institute's campaign to end horse slaughter through passage of federal and state legislation.

While it is a common misunderstanding that the Destrier that carried the armoured knight of the Middle Ages had the size and conformation of a modern draft horse, and some of these Medieval war horses may have provided some bloodlines for some of the modern draft breeds, the reality was that the high-spirited, quick-moving Destrier was closer to the size, build, and temperament of a modern Andalusian or Friesian.

As an Iberian breed, descending from the Andalusian horse stallions of Portugal and Barb mares, supporters of the breed value them for their carriage, beauty and intelligence, good disposition and consider them easily trained for almost any discipline.

Certain horse breeds, such as the Andalusian horse and the Arabian horse, are claimed by aficionados of the respective breeds to be ancient, near-pure descendants from an ancient wild prototype, though mapping of the horse genome as well as the mtDNA and y-DNA of various breeds has largely disproved such claims.

Worthy of mention are the Garrano ( or Minho horse ), a breed of small equine species who were ancestors of the Galician pony and Andalusian horse, which mostly live in the wild, but are a gentle breed with no significant fear of humans.

Such breeds include the Arabian horse and the Andalusian horse, and a number of feral breeds ( such as the Banker horse ) that are restricted to islands.

Modern Iberian breeds tend to be of a Baroque horse type that resemble their most famous member, the Andalusian horse, in conformation.

It is the most renowned building of the Andalusian Islamic historical legacy with its many cultural attractions that make Granada a popular destination among the touristic cities of Spain.

Málaga CF is the successor to CD Málaga, one of the historical Andalusian football clubs.

The only major interruptions in his concert travels were his marriage to Matilde Cuervas in Paris, an Andalusian flamenco guitarist, and the period of time he devoted to historical research in Paris into the instrumental predecessors of the guitar.

It consisted of three Italian MEPs ( Lega Nord two, Sardinian Action Party one ), two Spanish MEPs ( one each for the PNV and the Andalusian Party, PA ), one Belgian MEP ( for VU ), one French MEP ( Union of the Corsican People, UPC ), one British MEP ( SNP ) and one Irish MEP ( Neil Blaney, independent ).

The English word guitar, the German, and the French were adopted from the Spanish, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic, itself derived from the Latin, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek, and is thought to ultimately trace back to the Old Persian language Tar, which means string in Persian.

Chase describes music from this period, “ Taking the guitar as his instrumental model, and drawing his inspiration largely from the peculiar traits of Andalusian folk music – but without using actual folk themes – Albéniz achieves a stylization of Spanish traditional idioms that while thoroughly artistic, gives a captivating impression of spontaneous improvisation ... Cordoba is the piece that best represents the style of Albéniz in this period, with its hauntingly beautiful melody, set against the acrid dissonances of the plucked accompaniment imitating the notes of the Moorish guslas.

The beginnings of the Spanish musical were focused on romantic Spanish archetypes: Andalusian villages and landscapes, gypsys, " bandoleros ", and copla and other popular folk songs included in story development.

Certain Jewish communities, however, such as the Baladi Yemenite, Andalusian ( Western Sefardic or Spanish and Portuguese Jews ), and some Italian communities, never accepted it as authentic.

The variety of Spanish spoken in this province displays some of the characteristics of Andalusian speech, such as dropping of final-s in plural formation: gafa for gafas ( and consequent final vowel opening ) in the word " glasses ", or dropping of / d / in intervocalic position in regular participles of verbs: e. g. acabao for acabado.

During the 1910s, the club won several Andalusian regional leagues, and became the first Spanish side to defeat a Portuguese team, winning against Sporting Clube de Portugal.

In October 2006, the Andalusian Parliament asked the three parliamentary groups that form the majority to support an amendment that would ease the way for morisco descendants to gain Spanish citizenship.

In October 2006, the Andalusian Parliament asked the three parliamentary groups that form the majority to support an amendment that would similarly ease the way for nationals of Morisco descent to gain Spanish citizenship.

* Andalusian Party, a Spanish ( Andalusian ) Party

Un Chien Andalou (, An Andalusian Dog ) is a 1929 silent surrealist short film by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí.

The Gipsy Kings are a group of musicians from Arles and Montpellier who perform in Spanish with an Andalusian accent.

Vicente Martinez de Espinel was a Spanish writer and musician who revived the décima, using Andalusian Jíbaro traditions and medieval Moorish influences.

The process was not completed and fulfilled until the establishment in 1915 of the Southern Federation, covering Andalusia, Extremadura, Canary Islands and the territories and Spanish possessions in North Africa, giving way to the Andalusian Football Federation.

* Doublets of Arabic-Latinate synonyms with the Arabic form are more common in Latin American Spanish being influenced by Andalusian Spanish like Andalusian and Latin American alcoba for standard habitación or dormitorio (' bedroom ') or alhaja for standard joya (' jewel ').

The Andalusian varieties of Spanish ( Spanish: andaluz, ).

Due to massive emigration from Andalusia to the Spanish colonies in the Americas and elsewhere, most American Spanish dialects share some fundamental characteristics with Western Andalusian Spanish, such as the use of ustedes instead of vosotros for the second person plural, and seseo.

It is the home of the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art, a riding school comparable to the world-famous Spanish Riding School in Vienna.

* Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art

Today the only remaining large schools of classical dressage are the Cadre Noir, the Spanish Riding School, the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art in Jerez de la Frontera, the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art in Lisbon and the South African Lipizzaners in South Africa.

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Equestrian statues in Italy suggest a " Spanish " style of horse that today would be referred to as a Baroque horse, such as the Andalusian horse, Friesian horse, or even a heavy but agile warmblood breed such as the Irish Draught.

Mother of pearl and silver: The Andalusian ( 1888 – 1900 ), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

It is akin to a Western medieval tonus, an Andalusian tab ', an Arab naġam ( since 1400 " maqam "), or a Persian parde ( since 18th century dastgâh ).

Jerez, the city where flamenco singing began, is also proud of its Andalusian Centre of Flamenco.