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In Spain, gitanos were traditionally Roman Catholics who participated in four of the Church's sacraments (baptism, marriage, confirmation, and extreme unction). They follow traditions such as the cult of the Virgin of El Rocío.
10 maj 2022 · Flamenco music and dance is perhaps the most prominent gypsy culture in Spain. The majority of Spain's gypsy population, nearly 40%, lives in Andalusia in southern Spain. Gypsy music, dance, art and culture have been integrated into Spanish culture more than ever before.
The one ethnic minority of long standing in Spain is the Roma (Gypsies), who are known in Spain as Gitanos. Their traditional language is Caló. Many of them have assimilated into the mainstream of Spanish society, but others continue to lead their traditional…
6 sty 2020 · The lives and experiences of Gitanos or Calé (Spanish Gypsies) during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship (1939–1975) have rarely been documented in schoolbooks, chronicles, and historical monographs that receive broad public attention.
Drawing extensively on the author's archival research, this is the first major study in English of the first three and a half centuries in Spain of a people, its 'gitanos', who, despite their elevation by Spaniards and non-Spaniards alike to culturally iconic status, have until now remained invisible to history in the English-speaking world.
Like Gypsies elsewhere, Gitanos have historically been the object of elite and artistic interest in subordinate minorities. Often depicted as idealized noble savages and sometimes as depraved beings, Gitanos have embodied the fantasies of both non-Gypsy critics and champions of Spain.
After over five centuries, the presence of the Gitanos (Spanish Gypsies) in Spain 1 can only be explained by their extraordinary capacity for survival, both in a physical sense (overcoming persecution and a precarious livelihood), and in an ethnic sense (maintaining their identity). What is most surprising is how little is known about them.
