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西班牙，正式名称为西班牙王国（西班牙语：Reino de España；英语：Kingdom of Spain），是一个位于欧洲西南部的国家。

西班牙拥有悠久的历史。在公元前35,000年前后，西班牙就出现了智人。公元前九世纪左右腓尼基人、古希腊人、迦太基人以及凯尔特人开始进入伊比利亚半岛。随后到了公元前218年，罗马人开始占领伊比利亚半岛。罗马人的入侵对现代西班牙的语言、宗教和法律产生了深远的影响。公元四世纪，日耳曼部落入侵。到公元五世纪，西班牙被西哥特人征服，随后在公元711年，穆斯林的北非人摩尔人入侵西班牙，西班牙人开始了驱逐入侵者的战争。这场战争持续到1492年。在1512年，西班牙完成了统一。

15世纪末，西班牙已经成为一个殖民大国，逐渐成为西班牙帝国(Spanish Empire)。16世纪，西班牙通过在美洲获得的巨大财富成为欧洲最强大的国家。但是然而由此引发的持续反抗斗争最终使得西班牙的国力衰退下来。18世纪的君主王位继承战争使得西班牙陷入了毁灭的灾难，西班牙先后失去了比利时、卢森堡、米兰等地。随着19世纪法国拿破仑的入侵，西班牙在整个19世纪的大部分时间都在进行反抗斗争。这时期西班牙开始失去她在美洲的殖民地，并最终导致了1898年的美西战争。

20世纪的初期曾经带来的一段时期的和平，独裁统治（1923年—1931年）结束后第二共和国诞生。随着政党的日益增多，以及其他各方面的压力，连同未受控制的暴力活动，导致了1936年七月发生了西班牙内战。接着国家主义者打败共和党人上台，弗朗西斯科·佛朗哥开始对西班牙实施长达36年的独裁统治。

然而，在20世纪60年代到70年代里，西班牙转变成为一个拥有繁荣旅游业的现代工业经济国家，佛朗哥将军于1975年9月去世，在此之前他指定了胡安·卡洛斯王子作为他的后继者。胡安·卡洛斯王子假装答应接受了国王以及国家元首的头衔，但却开始领导西班牙向更文明的现代化民主国家转变，特别是反对了1981年的政变企图。1976年7月国王任命原国民运动秘书长阿·苏亚雷斯为首相，开始向西方议会民主政治过渡。这标志着西班牙同佛朗哥专制制度的彻底决裂。西班牙在1982年加入了北大西洋公约组织，随后在1986年，西班牙加入了欧洲联盟。

Spanish Cuisine:The Spanish have never acquired the international reputation for haute cuisine enjoyed by their French neighbours. And millions of foreign tourists who flock to Spain’s costas each summer find their menu options at best limited and at worst swimming in garlic!

In fact many overseas visitors never sample a taste of the “real Spain” because the most popular coastal areas have been saturated with fast food joints and international restaurants.

To savour the truly wonderful world of Spanish food it’s essential to venture beyond the seaside tourist traps and follow the example of the Spaniards. Food is far more than a way of keeping body and soul together in Spain – it’s an entire experience and the focal point of the Spanish way of life.

Influences on Spanish Food

Spanish food reflects this vast country’s turbulent history, diverse geography and Mediterranean culture. Centuries of occupation by the Moors, who were the first to cultivate olives and oranges in Spain, made a huge impact on the Spanish diet as did decades of extreme poverty suffered by millions under Franco’s repressive regime.

You can taste the Moorish influence in the huge variety of Spanish dishes flavoured with cumin, saffron and other exotic spices. The sumptuous soups and stews which you’ll find all over Spain today were the staple diet of peasant communities, surviving on home grown vegetables and meat bones stewed for hours to eke out very ounce of flavour (just like grandma used to make!)

Paella - the most famous Spanish food

It was the poor peasant people of the Valencian region who invented Spain’s most famous dish, paella. The original recipe combined home grown veg (usually green and broad beans) with off cuts of rabbit and the short grain rice mass produced around the city of Valencia thanks to the sophisticated irrigation system introduced by the Moors. Even today this is the traditional Valencian paella which you’ll find in thousands of towns, villages and isolated mountain pueblos throughout the region. It’s cheap, full of flavour and filling which were the three ingredients most sought after by those struggling to survive in the dire days during and after the Spanish Civil War. This kind of paella is a far cry from the exotic dishes you’ll find down at the seafront where chefs throw in an abundance of mussels, clams, langoustines and other pricey trimmings designed to tempt tourists with plenty of money to spend.

No matter where you are in Spain, as a general rule of thumb you’ll get tastier food for far less money if you eat where the Spanish eat and follow them along to the street markets which are a treasure trove of fresh, cheap and high quality local produce.

Spain is the second largest country in western Europe and there are many regional variations in terms of the local cuisine. But the national diet is characterised by a reliance on olive oil for cooking and flavouring and a passion for all kinds of fish. Spanish workmen eat octopus washed down with a brandy or glass of red wine for breakfast and toddlers happily tuck into a plate of snails or clams at any time of day (can you imagine a British kid?!)

Food in Andalucia

The Costa del Sol is famed for its grilled sardines, barbecued on the beach in the summer months, whilst wider Andalucia brought us Gazpacho (chilled tomato soup) and the delightful habit of serving tapas with every drink. Traditionally a tapa, which means cover in Spanish, was served free with a drink – maybe a morsel of dried ham, manchego cheese or tortilla. The snack was placed on the small plate used to cover the drink to keep away flies. In most tourist centres these days you have to pay for your tapas but they’re still served free in many inland areas of Andalucia and elsewhere around the country.

Galicia, in the north west corner of Spain, is the place to visit for some of the finest fresh fish in the world. And in many regions where the numbers of pigs and sheep outnumber people, you’ll find a heavy reliance on pork and lamb dishes. Pork is the most widely eaten meat in Spain – partly because the Moors refused to eat it so cooking with pork became almost a part of the Christian religion!

An exciting way of exploring Spanish food and wine is through culinary tours in Spain. You can find all sorts of them, from wine tasting in Rioja to tapas tours in cities like Madrid and Barcelona, as well as cooking lessons in emblematic places and olive oil or serrano ham routes.

Choose an area in Spain to read more about different types of spanish food.

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