A selection of interesting facts about Spain (18 photos)

What do we know about Spain? Bullfighters live there, everything is excellent play football, local gourmets make excellent sherry and jamon, and Salvador Dali was born there. But this is only a grain of sand compared to what Spain may surprise you. Let's not turn into guides and take you around the most popular tourist routes, which are incredible in Spain a lot of. Let's look at interesting things that will surprise anyone traveler.

Castels or "human castles"







Castellers is an exciting competition where you fight for victory at once multiple commands. In this duel, people must build a huge and unusual design, climbing on top of each other. The most courageous and dexterous build their castles as high as a 9-storey building.

Cave with huge crystals in Almeria





In places here you can find crystals reaching two meters. Although the cave itself is small in size - eight meters long and two height.

Rio Tinto - a river in which it is better not to swim



Such an unusual color of the river is due to the fact that in its vicinity there are many minerals. As a result, iron and other heavy metals that dissolve and color the river in yellow-red color.

Traditional costume "Tranga" in Aragon



San Francisco street, known as "Mushroom Street" (or "Mushroom Street"), in downtown Alicante



What Easter looks like in southern Spain



Beautiful aragonite "Flowers" from a cave on the island of Mallorca



Life under a piece of granite (Setenil de las Bodegas, Cadiz)



Weather antics, Madrid



In 2021, the snow norm in some areas of Spain beat everything records. For the residents, this was a real shock. 'Cause they don't know well what it's like to go outside and drown in a snowdrift.

This church in Llaner has been turned into a skatepark.



Integration with nature, Madrid



Pedaling and sharpening knives



This is what knife sharpening looks like in a restaurant in Oviedo.

Why do we need a stove if there is an active volcano nearby?



The Spaniards love not only to eat delicious food, but also to cook. Restaurant "El Diablo" is located right on top of an active volcano, the island Lanzarote, Canary Islands. Here you can taste dishes cooked on fire emanating from the mouth of a volcano.

Supermarkets in Spain take care of your phone charge



Trams in Seville have fast-charging batteries so they don't need overhead lines along the way.



It takes only 15 seconds for the tram to recharge and start moving again.

Vineyards nestled in moon-shaped volcano craters in Lanzarote, Canary Islands



Masquerades in Spain are not forgotten