- Carnaval
- The three days of festivities preceding Lent, characterized by costumes, masks, drinking, music, and dancing.
Spain's most colorful carnival is in Santa Cruz, Tenerife, and Cadiz's carnival is also famous. In Spanish-speaking Latin America, the carnivals of Uruguay, Bolivia, and Venezuela are very well known.
- a los talentos individuales del Santa Cruz el Benadós opone un excelente juego de equipo
- Benadós relies on its excellent teamwork to counter the individual talents of the Santa Cruz players
- Siglo de Oro
- Spain's literary renaissance, known as the Golden Age, roughly covers the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It includes the Italian-influenced poetry of figures such as Garcilaso de la Vega; the religious verse of Fray Luis de León, Santa Teresa de Ávila and San Juan de la Cruz; picaresque novels such as the anonymous Lazarillo de Tormes and Quevedo's Buscón; Miguel de Cervantes' immortal Don Quijote; the theater of Lope de Vega, and the ornate poetry of Luis de Góngora.
- se viste en de la Cruz
- she wears (clothes by) de la Cruz
- I live in Seattle but my home is in Vera Cruz
- vivo en Seattle pero soy de Vera Cruz
