SPAIN

Capital: Madrid

Immigration
Spain presents one of the greatest rates of immigration of the world, and is, after the U.S.A., the second country of the planet that most immigrants receives. On 2006, 9.27% of the Spanish population were foreigner people.

Religion
The catholicism is the predominant religion in the country, officially 79.4% of the population. Many Spaniards are taken as catholic, although really don’t make an observance. According to a study of the 19 of April of 2005 of the New York Times, only 18% of the Spaniards go normally to mass.

Hymn
The National anthem of Spain is one of the few hymns of the world that have music but no words.

Patrimony of the Humanity
Spain is the country of the world with more monuments considerated as “Patrimony of the Humanity”. At the present time it counts on 38.

Tourism
Spain is the second country of the world that receives more foreign tourists, according to data of the World-wide Organization of Tourism, only behind France, and has a quota of 7% of the world-wide tourism, above the United States and Italy.

Currency:

The official currency of Spain is the Euro, became the official currency the 1 of January of 2002, replacing to the peseta. Although the citizens began to protest by the concealed ascent of the prices.

credits: wikipedia