One of these is the famous work Saturn Devouring His Son ( known informally in some circles as Devoration or Saturn Eats His Child ), which displays a Greco-Roman mythological scene of the god Saturn consuming a child, possibly a reference to Spain's ongoing civil conflicts.

Some of Spain's greatest music is regarded as having been written in the period.

The period of time from 1834 until 1843 is known as Spain's third bourgeois revolution.

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ( MNCARS ) is the official name of Spain's national museum of 20th-century art, located in Madrid ( informally shortened to the Museo Reina Sofía, Queen Sofia Museum.

Occitan (; ; ), known also as Lenga d ' òc by its native speakers (; ), is a Romance language spoken in southern France, Italy's Occitan Valleys, Monaco, and Spain's Val d ' Aran: the regions sometimes known unofficially as Occitania.

* Picual, from southern Spain ( province of Jaén ), is the most widely cultivated olive in Spain, comprising about 50 % of Spain's olive production and around 20 % of world olive production.

Spain's fertility rate of 1. 47 ( the number of children the average woman will have during her lifetime ) is lower than the EU average, but has climbed every year since the late 1990s.

The growing population of immigrants is the main reason for the slight increase in Spain's fertility rate.

Spain's political system is a multi-party system, but since the 1990s, two parties have been predominant in politics, the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) and the People's Party ( PP ).

Between 2008 and 2012 this process was rapidly reversed, characterized by the fact that almost a quarter of Spain's workforce is currently unemployed.

It is now one of Spain's major tourist attractions, exhibiting the country's most significant and well known Berber Islamic architecture, together with 16th-century and later Christian building and garden interventions.

* Ciudad Real Airport, just south of Madrid, is Spain's worst example of the many white elephants that haunt its regions.

It is called " Spain's own Tehran ", similar to the 1979 – 80 Iran American U. S. Embassy Hostages of Americans.

The Santa Cruz is together with the Carnival of Cadiz, the most important festival for Spanish tourism and Spain's largest Carnival.

Spain's transmission system is interconnected with those of France, Portugal, and Morocco.

Aragon is home to many rivers — most notably, the river Ebro, Spain's largest river in volume, which runs west-east across the entire region through the province of Zaragoza.

The president of the Spanish National Transplant Organisation has acknowledged Spain's legislative approach is likely not the primary reason for the country's success in increasing the donor rates, starting in the 1990s.

He is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain's Socialist Party's think tank.

South of Barcelona is Spain's most romantic Mediterranean beach town, with a 2. 5 km-long ( 1 1 / 2-mile ) sandy beach and a promenade studded with flowers and palm trees.

The designation Queso Manchego is protected under Spain's Denominación de Origen ( DO ) regulatory classification system and the cheese has been granted Protected Designation of Origin ( PDO ) status by the European Union.

In early 2000, The Telegraph announced that the search for Velazquez's body would be abandoned: " A CAR park is to be built over what is widely believed to be the site of the tomb of Velazquez, one of Spain's greatest artists, after the authorities abandoned attempts to find his body ... thought to have been buried in Madrid at the Iglesia de San Juan Bautista.

She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain's Socialist Party's think tank.

Elsewhere he has insisted: With regard to the 1930s, he has written that Gina Herrmann, in her 2010 study of Spanish communists ' memoirs, claimed that " of the many myths that Western Communists lived by, perhaps the most abiding is that of Communist anti-Fascism of the 1930s and 1940s — one that was consolidated in Spain's Civil War of 1936 – 1939.

The name was previously Canaanite אי שפנים ( ʾî šəpānîm ), meaning ' island of hyraxes ', named by Canaanite-speaking Phoenicians who mistook Spain's large rabbit population, that roamed the Iberian Peninsula in ancient times ( although today, the Spanish population of wild rabbits is not quite as abundant as it was then due to the introduction of the myxomatosis virus to mainland Europe in 1950 ), for hyraxes.

The firm made no U. S. buys in 1998, but doubled its employee base with purchases including Spain's largest retail insurance broker, Gil y Carvajal, and the formation of Aon Korea, the first non-Korean firm of its kind to be licensed there.

Howard of Effingham and Sir Francis Drake failed to capitalise on an initial victory over Philip II of Spain's fleet and allowed it to sail up the Channel due to low supplies of imported gun powder, this proved the importance of more British arms manufacture as opposed to relying on imports.

The Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Port Royal, Spain's Álvaro de Bazán class frigate MÉNDEZ NÚÑEZ ( F-104 ), and MDA's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense ( THAAD ) mobile ground-based radar also participated in the flight test.

In January 2010 America Movil, the largest mobile phone company in Latin America, made an offer to buy Telmex and Telmex International in order to better compete against Spain's Telefonica.

It originated from the merger of several Brazilian mobile phone operations under a joint-venture owned equally by Portugal Telecom ( PT ) and Spain's Telefónica.

Franco answered negatively to another request from Hitler to join the war, received on 6 February, using as a pretext the precarious state of Spain's economy and army due to its brutal civil war.

His support of the Republicans in Spain's civil war against General Francisco Franco, and his fight against using the California Highway Patrol to end labor strikes helped earn him support of the local Communist Party United States of America organization.

While in Rosario he noticed that both the royalist and patriotic forces were using the same colors, Spain's yellow and red.

While writers of the time offered novel solutions to Spain's problems such as using irrigation in agriculture and encouragement of economic activity, the nobility never really produced anyone that could bring about serious reforms.

The huge gardens, built to relieve its royal residents from the dust and drought of the Spanish meseta using the waters of the adjacent Tagus and Jarama rivers, are Spain's most important of the Habsburg period.

Although Spain's presence in the area had been sporadic, the French created a deep-sea port at Dauphin Island and founded French Louisiana's capital at Mobile, a few miles north of Mobile Bay on the Mobile River in 1702.

Spain's European empire was also divided: Savoy received Sicily and parts of the Duchy of Milan, while Charles VI ( the Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria ), received the Spanish Netherlands, the Kingdom of Naples, Sardinia, and the bulk of the Duchy of Milan.

Unlike in other parts of Europe where Marxism came to play a dominant part, Spain's revolutionaries were mostly followers of the International's anarchist faction ( they were to remain very strong up until the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, and the subsequent dictatorship ).

By the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713, Spain's European empire was divided: Savoy received Sicily and parts of the Duchy of Milan, while Charles VI ( the Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria ), received the Spanish Netherlands, the Kingdom of Naples, Sardinia, and the bulk of the Duchy of Milan.

Wakefield rejected the request to wait for Spain's enquiry, informing Te Rauparaha that if local Māori interfered with company surveyors on the land, he would lead 300 constables to arrest him.

FEVE ( Ferrocarriles de Vía Estrecha, meaning " Narrow-Gauge Railways ") is a state-owned Spanish railway company, which operates most of Spain's of metre gauge railway.

* FEVE (, " Narrow-Gauge Spanish Railways ") is another state-owned Spanish railway company, which operates most of Spain's of narrow gauge rail.

However, on April 18, another British bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland ( RBS ) contacted ABN AMRO to propose a deal in which a consortium of banks, including RBS, Belgium's Fortis, and Spain's Banco Santander Central Hispano ( now Banco Santander ) would jointly bid for ABN AMRO and thereafter break up the different divisions of the company between them.

DRO ( Discos Radiactivos Organizados ) was a record company founded in the ' 80s as Spain's first independent record label by members of the Aviator Dro techno pop outfit.

In 1984, he was accepted as a member of Spain's prestigious national ballet company.

In 2004, American tire business giant Michelin gave Cidon their " Estrella de la Guia Michelin " award (" Michelin Guiding Star "), given by that company to Spain's top business achievers.

Initiated in 1992, the index is administered and calculated by Sociedad de Bolsas, a subsidiary of Bolsas y Mercados Españoles ( BME ), the company which runs Spain's securities markets ( including the Bolsa de Madrid ).

Brasil Telecom, the country's third largest fixed-line operator, and Opportunity, which controlled Brasil Telecom, hired Kroll to determine whether Telecom Italia competed with Brasil Telecom in 2000 in the latter's acquisition of the Brazilian fixed-line phone company Companhia Riograndense de Telecomunicoes (' CRT ') from Spain's Telefónica with the purpose of increasing the final price paid by Brasil Telecom for CRT, as both Opportunity and Telecom Italia were struggling for the control of Brasil Telecom.

Telesystem International Wireless later divested from the company, which is currently owned by Vivo, a Brazilian joint-venture between Portugal Telecom and Spain's Telefónica.