Space, Ibiza

Perhaps the most famous night disco in Ibiza. Located on the territory of the Playa d’en Bossa resort, very close to the airport, so the club’s guests have a tradition of welcoming landing planes. The institution belongs to the «luxury» class — an impressive entrance fee (50-60 euros) speaks for itself. The audience here is refined, stylish. The Space Club is the owner of various awards in the field of entertainment. Every Sunday there is a round-the-clock dance marathon starting at 8 am.
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Pacha, Ibiza

Opened in the early 1970s, today Pacha is not just a disco club, it is an entire empire that includes a hotel, a number of restaurants and a fashion brand. This is the only club on the island that does not close at the end of the season. For nearly 20 years, at the end of September, it is in the Pacha club that the award ceremony for the best DJs in the world — the DJ Award — has been held. Impressive dance floors of the establishment can accommodate more than 3.5 thousand guests. You will also have to spend money on the entrance ticket — 40-60 euros.
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Amnesia, Ibiza

The AmneSia club has a history of more than 30 years, during which the institution, which was at first a small place for gathering hippies, has become one of the most fashionable party venues in the world. Techno, house, dubstep, trance — everyone will find music to their liking here. The nightly program is varied, and foam parties on Wednesdays and Saturdays are especially loved by thousands of visitors. The club operates only during the holiday season (June-September).
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Fortuna Night Club, Costa del Sol

Nightclub Fortuna is a whole entertainment complex. Here you can not only dance until the morning or try your luck in the casino: the whole costume shows, variety performances (Spanish ballet, flamenco) and performances by variety artists are arranged in the institution.

BCM Planet Dance, Mallorca

Three floors of thundering music, foam parties and laser shows, five thousand dancing clubbers — all this daily from 10 pm to 6 am. The residents of the BCM club are world-famous DJs — David Guetta and Paul van Dyck.
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What is important to know about sleepovers.

So that unpleasant incidents do not overshadow the impressions received from a night of revelry, do not leave your belongings unattended when leaving the table to the dance floor. A wallet forgotten on the table or a handbag dangling on a chair will become easy prey for dishonest crooks. Also, be vigilant when paying the bill — there may well be an extra position in it. It would be safest not to take cash with you to the club, but to pay with a bank card. It is also better to leave your passport at home, and to confirm your age at the entrance, present a photocopy of the document.
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Different establishments have different dress code requirements. Somewhere girls will not be allowed to go without heels, and a man without a shirt and tie. And somewhere everything is exactly the opposite: a T-shirt and jeans are required. Therefore, find out in advance about the rules of the establishments you are going to visit.

Evening bars in Spain

For those who do not like electronic music and non-stop dancing, Spanish bars offer their own nightly program. A lively movement in the bars starts around 21.00 and lasts until three in the morning. Each institution prepares its own signature snacks and drinks, invites groups of performers of a certain orientation. Bartenders prepare alcoholic cocktails in front of visitors, turning this process into a spectacular show. By the way, drinks and snacks (traditional tapas) here will cost tourists several times cheaper than in nightclubs.
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After midnight, mass karaoke singing begins, in which not only guests of the establishment, but also bartenders and even bar owners participate. After stretching your vocal cords, you can play billiards or chat with friends on comfortable terraces.

Entertainment for children

In the midday heat in Spain, both adults and children are happy to indulge in an afternoon nap. Of course, in the late evening, a rested baby is full of strength and energy. The entertainment industry in Spain has taken care of the children’s evening pastime. On the embankments, cafes are open until late, where you can enjoy ice cream. In Barcelona, ​​for example, there is a night tourist bus, a children’s ticket costs 10 euros.
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Very popular in Spain is such an attraction offered by aquariums and oceanariums as a night with sharks. Similar entertainment can be found in Madrid, Valencia, Granada, Barcelona and Gijon. The entrance ticket in different cities will cost from 50 to 90 euros. This amount includes dinner, informative stories of guides about the underwater world, various games and shows, after which the child falls asleep surrounded by marine predators behind glass.

Entertainment for pensioners

Night disco clubs are considered by default to be a place of revelry for young people, but in any of them you can meet old people dancing famously. Many clubs on certain days hold themed evenings «for those who are over …», salsa parties where you can learn traditional Spanish dance. Many places also offer special discounts for pensioners.

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murciana («Murcian movida»), etc.

is a designation for the socio-cultural urban movements of post-Franco Spain, when nightlife and alternative art life flourished.

Meadow near San Isidro. Painting by Francisco Goya. 1788 Museo Nacional del Prado

The word movida is derived from the verb mover (“to move”) and can be translated into Russian as “movement”, “turmoil”, “mess”, “drive”, “party” . The most accurate in form and meaning, but not in style, Russian correspondence is “movement”. nine0003

Spain in the second half of the 1970s — early 1980s experienced the era of Transition (La Transición, 1975-1982), that is, the transition from the dictatorship of Francisco Franco to parliamentary democracy. Rapid political changes were accompanied by rapid changes in all spheres of cultural life and the flourishing of subcultures. The word movida quickly gained popularity in Spanish slang and began to refer to the totality of the phenomena of the new street nightlife with its clubs, disco bars and discos, pop, rock and punk music, drugs, alternative fashion and cinema. Today madrid movida, La Movida madrileña , is a household name for the golden era of the Spanish capital’s counterculture. However, similar processes, along with democratic transformations, also took place in other cities — La Movida viguesa («Movida in Vigo»), La Movida manchega , («La Mancha movida»), etc.

In the 21st century movida nocturna («night movida») is no longer so bohemian and crazy, but the word lives on, because it captures the main feature of the Spanish nightlife, constant movement: from the cinema to the bar, from the bar to the club, then to the disco — and so on in a circle until very morning. nine0003

2. Salir

Go somewhere in the evening, go out

Night butterflies. Painting by Carlos Verger Fioretti. 1920 Museo de Zamora

The idea of ​​movida is closely related to the verb salir . This is a basic Spanish verb meaning «to go out», but in everyday colloquial speech it is constantly used in the special meaning of «walking, hanging out, carousing, seeing friends in the evening, going to different places.» Salir does not mean any walk or meeting, its use implies that typical Spanish evening leisure, which is captured by the word movida . The vast majority of young Spaniards aged 16-25 regularly participate in evening and «moving» night parties that last an average of 11 hours. Meet around 7 pm in one of the bars with friends and come home at 5-6 am is a common thing. Students salen (“hang out, walk”) on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, Friday or Saturday without going out is a special topic for memes and jokes ( otro viernes sin salir , sábado sin salir , etc.) with connotations of unbearable sadness.

In addition to the verb salir , the Spanish movida dictionary needs to include a dozen more expressions used to describe street festivities and parties. In particular, you can specifically indicate what exactly they are going to drink: salir / ir de copas means “go to drink wine” ( sora — “glass”), salir / ir de cañas — «go drink beer» ( caña — «mug»). Or what they are going to eat: ir de tapas / ir de pinchos — “go eat tapas or pinchos” ( tapas , pinchos — special snacks).

In recent decades, due to the economic downturn, many young people cannot afford to go to bars, as their parents did, and gatherings in parks and squares where drinks from the supermarket have become a popular alternative. Such parties also have a special name — botellón (from botella , «bottle», with the magnifying suffix -ón ).

The decline in income and the development of the Internet, social networks and messengers led to other changes in the traditions salir that developed in the 1980s. If in 1999 66% of young Spaniards hung out every weekend, then in recent years only about 20%, while only 3.5% of young people have never spent the night in this way, and today — 23%. Despite the fact that Spaniards drink alcohol while walking in the evenings and at night, it is not customary to get drunk. The goal is a fiesta, a holiday, the joy of communication. Italians have verb uscire (“going out”) has the same connotations and usage as Spanish salir , so we can say that we are dealing with a common southern European trait, but in Spain the culture of night festivities has taken on a special dimension.

3. Fiesta mayor

Big celebration, many days street festival, usually in honor of the patron saint

Vision of Spain: Castilla. Fragment of a painting by Joaquin Soroya. 1913 Hispanic Society of America

To appreciate the ability of Spaniards, Catalans, Galicians and other peoples of the Iberian Peninsula to have fun, you should at least once in your life see the Fiesta Major or Fiesta Patronal ( fiesta patronal , «feast of the patron saint») with your own eyes. In Spain, there is a centuries-old tradition of festivities in honor of the holy patrons of heaven: today they have almost completely lost their religious content (although they include Christian processions), but retain great social significance for local communities. Some of these big holidays-festivals have become world famous and attract tourists from all over the world (Tomatina, Tamborrada, San Fermin, described by Hemingway, etc.), however, most of them are held locally and are popular with the townspeople themselves and residents of nearby villages and towns . Each big holiday has its own traditions: it can be special processions, fairs, special game themed carnivals (for example, the symbolic battle of the Moors and Christians), dances and concerts with free treats and drinks. Fiesta Mayor often includes the most incredible events, in which hundreds and thousands of people take part: here and running with lights (torches, firecrackers and fireworks), and collective pouring of red wine, and the simultaneous opening of hundreds of bottles of sparkling wine — cava. nine0003

4. Tertulia

In the past, regular meetings of a permanent circle of people in a certain cafe for conversations and discussions; today is a discussion (usually political) television or radio show

Caballero conversation in the Levante Cafe in Madrid. Painting by Leonardo Alensa. Around 1825-1835 Museo de Historia de Madrid

Another word for a special kind of gathering and leisure is tertulia . Its etymology is obscure, perhaps related to the 17th-century fashion for reading and discussing the writings of the early Christian philosopher Tertullian. Until the 19th century, Spanish tertulia were almost complete analogues of European salons and literary and artistic circles that gathered in private homes. Then they moved to city cafes ( сafés de tertulia ) and gradually acquired unique features. You can find references to the fact that tertulia meetings began at the same time, contertulios , or tertulianos (“members of the tertulia”), always occupied their permanent places, meetings could not be missed without good reason, the conversation had to have a general character, etc. Tertulia formed around poets, writers, journalists, opinion leaders (the most famous tertulia of the 20th century is the tertulia in the Pombo cafe in Madrid, where the writer Ramon Gomez de la Serna presided), but unlike salons, they were called at the venue (tertulia of Fornos Cafe, Suizo Cafe, Gijon Cafe, etc.). Among the tertulia were both free and thematic, dedicated to a specific area — politics, history, literature, philosophy, certain sports, bullfighting, chess, etc. Tertulia were especially popular in the first third of the 20th century, but they also existed later, giving way only to the wild move. Photographs and paintings depicting the famous tertulia of the 20th century make it possible to notice another important detail that verbal descriptions miss: almost exclusively men took part in them. nine0003

Now this is the name given to colloquia and seminars, thematic groups in social networks and, most importantly, socio-political radio and television programs in the talk show format. Modern contertulios , or tertulianos , are professional participants in television discussions, stars of the air.

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5. Madrugar

Wake up early

Sloth. Painting by Ramon Casas. 1898 Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

Madrugar is regularly included in lists of Spanish words with a unique meaning, noting that neither in English, nor in French, nor in German, nor in Italian, nor in Russian, it is impossible to express the meaning of this verb with one lexeme (however, there is a similar Catalan word matinar ).

Indeed, in European languages ​​outside the Iberian Peninsula, it is not possible to find an exact match even in related Romance languages, where there are reflexes  Reflex — reflection of a sound or word of the ancestor language in the descendant language. the Latin great-great-ancestor of this Spanish word, the verb maturare («hurry, hasten»). Madrugar is traced back to folk (i.e. Vulgar-Latin) * maturicare , which is not recorded in the sources, but reconstructed according to linguistic data, which gave the Old Spanish madurgar and then, due to metathesis, permutation of sounds ( madurgar0 > 24 madurgar0), 34 madurgar0 to a modern look. In the current phonetic form madrugar has been recorded since the 14th century, and the variant madurgar has been known since 1250.

The expression nunca jamás attracts attention as an example of expressive linguistic excess, in other words, pleonasm. Both words — both nunca and jamás — adverbs and in modern Spanish have the synonymous meaning «never». Used together, they give an example of a vivid emphase, that is, an emotional emphasis that is difficult to convey in another language. This combination is usually translated using the options «never again», «never in my life», which look rather pale against the background of the Spanish original. nine0323 Nunca jamás resembles modern expressions with complete lexical reduplication like estoy harto pero harto harto («I’m sick of it, really sick of it»; cf. Russian «white-white» in the meaning «very white»), but thanks to that that it is not the same word that is repeated, but two synonyms, it seems more eloquent.

Pleonastic combinations that are redundant from a semantic point of view are found in many languages ​​and, as signals of additional expressiveness, are most characteristic of colloquial speech. But in the case of nunca jamás we are not dealing with a phrase from modern colloquial speech — on the contrary, this expression is inherited from Vulgar Latin.

Latin iam magis («already» + «more») giving Spanish jamás , Italian giammai and French jamais used to reinforce adverbs nunquam («4 never») and 233 «nunquam » always») in the expressions nunquam iam magis and semper iam magis and gave in Old Spanish nunca jamás («never again») and siempre jamás («forever»). The frequent use of the negation formula in this form led to the fact that jamás was assigned a negative, and not just an intensifying meaning, and it began to be used in isolation. The formula siempre jamás is also preserved in the language, although it is perceived by modern speakers as nonsense («always never»): it is used in the Spanish Bible in the meaning «and forever and ever», and also with its help the fairy ending is transmitted in Spanish » they lived happily ever after» ( vivieron felices por siempre jamás ).

Explanatory dictionary entry for the word jamás will amuse any Spanish learner, because the first meaning of the word is «never», and the second — with the mark «obsolete» — «always».

11. Romance

Romance, romance verse

Maho with a guitar. Painting by Ramon Bayeu. Around 1778 Museo Nacional del Prado

The word romance , used to name the popular language derived from Latin, acquired a specific meaning in the territory of the Iberian Peninsula — this is how poetic works in this language and their special poetic form began to be called there. In other words, romance is a type of verse (in Russian, to avoid confusion, they say “romantic verse”) with which romances are written, and these romances themselves are folk lyrical-epic works, analogues of a European ballad. In exemplary romances, eight-syllable lines follow each other, interconnected by assonant rhyme through a line to the same vowels (odd lines are left blank):

Cuando el alba me despierta (8-)
los recuerdos de otras albas (8a)
me renacen en el pecho (8-)
las que fueron esperanzas. (8a)

It is believed that this form was born from a long epic verse with continuous assonances — such as the epic poem «The Song of Sid» was written. The first known written sample of the romance dates back to the 15th century, but, according to authoritative researchers, it arose much earlier and existed as a folk song form already in the 13th-14th centuries.

The main thing that distinguishes romance verse and the works written by him from other Spanish poems is rhyme. The opposition of assonance (inexact rhyme) and consonance (exact rhyme) corresponds in Spanish poetry to the opposition of two poetic registers — folklore and literary. In no other Romance literature that knows assonant rhyme does this type of final consonance have a continuous history of use from the Middle Ages to the present, and nowhere does a verse built on the use of such consonance play such an important role in the poetic tradition. Spanish romance verse is a national treasure and a symbol of the originality of poetic culture. nine0003

«Rome», «Romania», «romance», «romanticism»: where did these words come from

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The heyday of folk romance in Spain dates back to the 16th-17th centuries. Then the first collections of romances appeared — romances — and the transition of the genre and the corresponding verse form from folklore to literature took place. Romances have significantly expanded their subject matter: metaphysical and burlesque texts also appear. In the 16th century, romance verse began to be used on stage as well. If the early Lope de Vega has little romance verse in dramas (he gradually turns to it more and more often), then in Calderon it takes up to half of the dramatic text. nine0003

The book Civil Wars in Granada (1604) by Ginés Pérez de Ita (its first part, The Tale of Segri and Abenserrach, was also published separately, 1595) played a huge role in the history of the romance as a pan-European genre. Many romances in the Moorish spirit were collected there, which subsequently spread in translations into European languages ​​and became models for numerous imitations. European romantics became interested in the genre and its formal features, thanks to which the word «romance» itself as a designation of a poetic work entered different languages, including Russian. nine0003

Romantic verse was never forgotten in the homeland, but its real rise dates back to the 20th century. Suffice it to point to the poetic practice of Federico Garcia Lorca and his contemporaries, who not only used the classical form of romance, but also modernized Spanish poetry, developing precisely the romance tradition.

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