After diligently avoiding sweets and other tasty temptations for Lent, Catholic Spaniards know how to ring in the end of the religious season with amazing dishes during Holy Week.

Easter week is celebrated in Spain like nowhere else on earth, and Spaniards take their Holy Week traditions very seriously, even if some of them – to the outsider – seem a little bit bonkers.

To mark World Book Day, we give you a breakdown of ten fiction and non-fiction ‘libros’ that will help you get to grips with Spain’s history, culture, the Spanish mindset and more.

Every carnival season in Spain, mock funeral parades with weeping widows take place for the ceremonial burial of a fish.

Some Spanish words are so good at perfectly describing a feeling, experience or person you have to wonder why the English language hasn’t adopted them yet.

One of the highlights of moving to a new country is immersing yourself in a new culture and Spain certainly does things differently when it comes to eating and drinking.

If you’re in Catalonia in winter one of the best local traditions you can take part in is a ‘calçotada’, a ritual which sees friends and families gobble up flame-grilled calçots (a type of green onion) with a delicious sauce.

In some countries not tipping is practically an insult, while in others leaving cash can cause offence – so what does etiquette dictate when it comes to leaving a tip in Spain?

Christmas is not over in Spain yet. Even though Christmas Day is celebrated across the country, Spaniards still tend to go ‘all in’ on January 6th with the arrival of ‘los Reyes’ (the Three Wise Men). Sorry Santa!