Today, there are 17 autonomous communities (15 are part of continental Spain and the other two are the Canary and the Balearic Islands), and two city enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa. Each region manages its own schools, hospitals, and other public services. This makes Spain po...
Chile’s Biblioteca Nacional (National Library), completed in 1924, has 1.8 million volumes and is the largest national library of a Spanish-speaking country outside of Spain.[2] Alonso de Ercilla, a Spanish solder-poet who fought against the Mapuche, authored South America’s first epic poem...