Mariano R. Vázquez
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Mariano Rodríguez Vázquez, popularly known by his nickname Marianet, was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist politician who served as General Secretary of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo during the S
Vázquez in 1936
Romani people in Spain
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The Romani in Spain, known as Calé or gitanos belong to the Iberian Romani subgroup known as Calé, with smaller populations in Portugal and in Southern France. Their sense of identity and cohesion ste
Mariano R. Vázquez
…politician who served as General Secretary of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) during the Spanish Civil War. Born into a working-class Calé family in Barcelona, his mother died while he was young and his father subsequently abandoned him. He spent his teenage years in poverty and was often…
Romani people in Spain, 1930s
España cañí, Spanish for "Gipsy Spain", including the Caló word cañí is the name of this bar in Madrid featuring a reproduction of Cante jondo, a 1929 painting by Julio Romero de Torres displaying stereotypes associated with Flamenco.
The ballet dancer Carlotta Grisi as the Romani Paquita (1844)