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bakalao

La Banda Trapera del Río (First Spanish punk group)

barraca

The traditional peasant hut of Valencia and Murcia, built from adobe with a steep pitched reed-thatched roof. Also found in the Delta de Ebro in Catalonia

Baroque

barretina

The traditional Catalan hat, worn across rural Catalonia until the end of the 19th century. The cagoner-the Catalan shitter- sports a barratina, and Salvador Dalí was prone to wearing one.

Basque language

List of Basque proverbs

Euskaltzaindia

Basque-Icelandic pidgin

Batua

Mis palabras vascas favoritas Excellent blog article. According to the RAE 95 words in the current Spanish dictionary come from Basque including, remarkably, izquierda (ezkerra) - left.

Basque mythology

Basque National Liberation Movement

Basque Nationalist Party (PNV)

Basque nationalism

Basque rural sports

Batallón Vasco Español

Batasuna

Battle of Covadonga

bears

Biscuter automobile

black ladino

Black Legend (La Leyenda Negra)

Bloc Nacionalista Galego

(BNG- Galician Nationalist Block) Galician nationalist party currently led by xxxxxxx.

Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE)

The official gazette of the Government of Spain in which are published the laws passed by the Cortes Generales (the nation’s legislature, comprising the Senate and the Congress of Deputies) and the dispositions of the Autonomous Communities.

Bonfires of Saint John botellónBourbon Reforms

House of Bourbon

Brigadists

Bullfighting

Bulls of Guisando

Búnker, El

The group of the top Francoists who attempted to oppose reform before the Transition. The name was popularised by the then-Communist leader, Santiago Carrillo, in evident reference to the bunker of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun.

Bush-Aznar memo

butanero

El butanero, the gas bottle man, is an essential figure in saucy Spanish folklore, routhly equivilent to the British milkman. Though in frank decline, as the bright orange butane gas bottles are being replaced by piped natural gas, the cry of Butano!from people “asking” for gas is still a common sound. In Barcelona, at least, all butaneros are now Pakistanis.

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