Introduction
Spain noticeably is separated among other countries of Europe. Its position on the joint of Europe and Africa, Christian world and world of Islam, reserved Mediterranean and boundless Atlantic left indelible track on all of look of country. Here always is a place to the surprise! For this reason Spain - one of the largest world centers of tourism and rest. What does Spain of tourists attract? Mainly, by ancient cities and sun beaches. But it far not all, for the sake of what it is needed to visit this surprising country.
The few knows that after Switzerland Spain the most alpine country of Europe: mountains occupy 90% its territories. And Pyrenees the quite not highest mountains in Spain. The southeast of country occupies Baetic Cordillera is the system of mountain ranges and backbones, on the height of yielding only to Alps. An acme is a mountain of Mulhacen - is not far from Granada. It is southernmost part of Europe, where snow is saved in summer! In spite of the fact that the Pyrenean peninsula almost from every quarter is surrounded a sea, the climate of country is determined a not so much ocean, how many by mountains, protecting it from external influences. The vertical half-lengthness of climate is very noticeable in Spain: it is possible to shiver with a cold, wrapped in a warm shawl highly in mountains and to look after how somewhere far down children swash in the warm waves of affectionate sea. Spain is many-sided, each time it appears before you other, unexpected, but always keenly interesting.
Why this remarkable country is named Spain, will not say now nobody, even Spanish’s. In antiquity this earth was inhabited by the tribes of Iberians, on whose name all of peninsula from middle of the first millennium to our era began to be named Iberia. Greeks named this country of Hesperia - by Country of Hesperus. After the section of the Roman Empire on Western and East, the Western carried the name officially "Hesperia". From 2 ages B.C., that since penetration to Spain of Romans, a country got the name "Hispania". Some historians suppose that "Hispania" - it distorted "Hesperia". But who now will say about it with a confidence?
