Over the past few centuries, Span has exerted a powerful fascination on foreigners, particularly English-speaking ones. Visitors from the United Kingdom, as well as the U.S., Canada, Australia and Ireland, left powerful descriptions of their travels to this exotic land. Now, with our help, the Cervantes Institute has created an online exhibition based on accounts by foreign travelers collected in more than 240 books on Spain written between 1750 and 1950. More than five hundred images and engravings have been put online.Alliance Francaise and Germany’s Goethe Institute , is dedicated to promoting the Spanish language and culture. Some 40 of the exhibition's books, the out of copyright works, already had been scanned in our Book Project . Others were found in the collection of the Institute’s London branch. Institute curators have prepared a detailed analysis of the texts and organized them by subject, ranging from the role women to bull-fightsGeorge Dennis in A Summer in Andalusia , published in 1839. “The Spanish working man is really a most sober, hard-working being, not much given to dancing and not at all to drinking. They are exceptionally clever and sharp, and learn any new trade with great facility,” concurred Louis Higgin, in 1902 in his Spanish life In town and country . Posted by Esperanza Ibanez, Public Policy Manager, Spain
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