Improvements in navigation and talent for trade brought the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean towards our country throughout the first millennium B.C. Before the Roman Empire appeared, Phoenicians, Punics and Greeks landed on the coast and established trading colonies, also attracted by the mining riches in Spain, from Roses in Girona to the area around Huelva. In addition, somewhere in Andalusia, the mixing of the new arrivals and the local populations gave rise to a unique and mysterious civilisation: Tartessos.
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In this section you can search all our contents throughout the different stages in the history of art in Spain, to find styles such as Baroque, Gothic, Mudejar and many, many more.
Modernism and Avant-garde movements
The turn of the century brought new winds of modernity. The aesthetic sensibility of the time was marked by a different, freer attitude towards art and life.
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Colonisations
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Greek ruins at Ampurias © Turespaña
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Gold Tartessian bracelets (National Archaeological Museum. Madrid) © Ministerio de Cultura
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Detail of the 'Lady of Ibiza', of Phoenician origin (National Archaeological Museum. Madrid) © Ministerio de Cultura
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The Mediterranean began to be known as the Mare Nostrum. Exotic peoples and cultures arrived from the east."
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