Résumé sur les Gitans de plus en plus respecter en Espagne

Gypsies of Spain are not in the program of our Ministry of Interior. Two reasons: because they remained in Spain, and because in any case, as Europeans by right, they would enjoy full freedom of movement in a country of the Union.

In France we can see above all the best scenes where they dazzle us with their musical creativity, their dances and songs of life and death. Fandango, cante hondo, zapateado, bulerías. They are intimately related to Andalusia where we find their first traces of wandering people, who finally found their port, in 1447, decades before the surrender of the last Moorish king of Granada.

Naturally osmosis with sedentary peoples was never fully realized. The gypsy people values ​​its traditions, its way of life or survival. The "Hortefeux" and another "Eric Besson" have not failed, throughout the centuries of the history of Spain for the chase, label, park them. At the entrance of the city of Barcelona, ​​in the eighteenth century, a sign said: "Entry forbidden to gypsies, the Murcian [residents of Murcia and its region], and other sinners." One example among thousands.

But in reality it is the whole of Spain, which has gradually found the spell of this people all at once artist, poet and rebel. A people that has been able to attract, appropriately, the good graces of the omnipotent Catholic Church in the reconquered Andalusia, merge with the artistic legacy of Moorish and Sephardic, enchanted writers and composers.

Federico Garcia Lorca was their modern singer with its "Gypsy Ballads", his poetic masterpiece, and "monja Gitana" (Gypsy nun). He immortalized the character of Antonio Torres Heredia, and the gypsy tribe Camborios; and showed, one finger at once mocking and accuser, Civil Guard who loved suppress. Federico had to pay with his life joyfully rebellious spirit of this prodigal son of Granada.

Spanish gypsies conquered as a right of citizenship and exceptional independence by identifying with the art of bullfighting. They excelled both at the bottom of the scale (peons), that planting banderillas or holding the pica perched on an old carne. But they also offered, at the top, great maestros of famous matadors, unforgettable.

Yes, talking about the gypsies of Spain, the only Gypsy people as an integral part of the historical soul, artistic and moral of their country. Which adopted them as much as they themselves have adopted

...