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Do you rent an appartement in Sevilla? Then there are a lot of things you must defenitely do, one of them is tasting the feel of the flamenco dance.
While the sun is going down in the lovely capital Seville, and when it´s pleasant weather and the terraces are filled you´ll listen to the sounds of the flamenco dance. Sevilla isn´t just the center of Andalusia but also the founder of the flamenco dance.

The flamenco dance is a big part of the Spanish culture, the Gypsies introduced these dance around the 15th century to Seville but just in the 19th century was this dance taking over by the native inhabitants in Spain. Flamenco is the traditional music, dance and song of Spain and mainly in Andalusia.

How do they make the flamenco melody? De basis is the song, the cante flamenco, this means de flamenco song. In the flamenco music you can pick up a bunch of several instruments, this is a rhythmic beat. This beat is made by knuckles on the table, smack with the hands or tap with a stick on the ground. These are primarily human instuments but we live in the modern time so they also use actual instruments. Instruments like the Spanish guitar, palmas, tinaja and the cajón. But they also use ´regular´ instruments like the flute, piano, violin and the cello. The flamenco guitar is however the largely general instrument, on this sound are the difficult hand moves and foot moves from the dance the easiest.

About the starting point from the word flamenco is not so much information, we already know that the Gypsies introduced it but that is all. There are several thoughts regarding the explanation of the word, frequently it is mentioned as a fragment in a book or a journey story. For instance the author from England George Barrow mentioned the word in one of his books, he wrotes that the word flamenco was used for gitanos.

A famous Gypsy who plays a big division in the flamenco culture is Carmen. There are two statues of this Gypsy close to the enormous canal in Seville, the Guadalquivir. It is assumed she was a housekeeper in the tobacco factory in Seville, that´s now a university.

But where can you find a real traditional flamenco dance when you stay in one of the appartementen Sevilla? Cause Seville is the spot to be when it´s about the flamenco dance, that´s why there are numerous places where you can find the dance. But if you don´t want to go to the touristic performance of flamenco, then you can go to a theatre, peña, tabloa or a Sevillian monastery. And if you really love this dance, then is the innovative modern Museo del baile flamenco a lovely place to go. This museum is all but the famous flamenco danser Christina Hoyos. You can make a spectaculate journey through the olden times of this danser with a movie and outfit from this time.

So go out of your appartement Sevilla and look for for the flamenco dance in this lively city. Cause the flamenco dance is just more than only smacking your heels on the dancefloor and the audience calling Olé!

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