Spain – rroma.org https://rroma.org Thu, 21 May 2026 12:47:27 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Spain – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Are Roma Spaniards? https://rroma.org/are-roma-spaniards/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=are-roma-spaniards Thu, 21 May 2026 12:47:27 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32657 A video on the statements of some VOX politicians in Spain saying that “Gitanos” are not Spaniards. VOX is a populist extreme right party. Here, Roma are reacting.

One needs to note that Roma were in Spain before Spain conquered the entire country 1n 1492.

https://youtu.be/w671d75bitE

]]> Resistance / Six Centuries https://rroma.org/resistance-six-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=resistance-six-centuries Fri, 01 May 2026 14:46:16 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32416 An article in El Pais about Roma resistqance and the new generation. Unfortunately, they mix up their history. They say six centuries in Europe. Roma have effectively been for six centuries in Western Europe, but for much longer in the Balkan and in Greece.

This is always the same misreading of history, and from a normally good paper. And in addition they state “Roma people”… Would they say Spanish people? Or just Spaniards?

Annoying.

]]> Alina Şerban https://rroma.org/alina-serban-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alina-serban-3 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:45:26 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32231 The Romanian Romani actress and directo Alina Şerban was awarded a prize as young talent in the ‘Gypsy’ Culture Award from the Instituto de Cultura Gitana in Madrid.

]]> Tenerife and Roma https://rroma.org/tenerife-and-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tenerife-and-roma Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:39:01 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31243 An article about the small Cale community in Tenerife. They are apparently in the island  since the 1940s.

]]> Roma in Spain https://rroma.org/roma-in-spain-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roma-in-spain-2 Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:42:05 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=30979 The book “Pueblo Gitano. 600 años de historia y cultura en España” [The Gitanos People: 600 Years of History and Culture in Spain] coordinated by Gonzalo Montaño, Joan M. Oleaque, and Arnau Vilaró, dismantles six centuries of silence, prejudice, and official narratives about Roma history.

Too bad they used the Gitanos name and not the endonym, “Cale”.

]]> Sally Cortes https://rroma.org/sally-cortes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sally-cortes Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:01:54 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=30875 “The first step must be taken by oneself – to believe that one can achieve everything one dreams of,” says Romani writer and activist Sally Cortés in an interview.

]]> Roma in Spain https://rroma.org/roma-in-spain/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roma-in-spain Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:27:22 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=30630 An overview of the current situation, progress, and challenges faced by Roma in Spain.

]]> Catalogna: Exhibition https://rroma.org/catalogna-exhibition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=catalogna-exhibition Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:28:30 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=30025 Mercedes Porras, a Romani activist and curator of the exhibition The Roma people in Catalonia: history and culture, which can be seen at the Museum of the History of Catalonia until August 2, 2026 is part of the commemoration of the 275th anniversary of the Great Raid of 1749 and the 600th anniversary of the arrival of the Roma people to the peninsula.

]]> Spain: Fight https://rroma.org/spain-fight/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spain-fight Sun, 17 Aug 2025 14:24:58 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=29459 Apparently, there has been a violent fight between Roma and Moroccans near Barcelona over an illegal shop.

Bad.

]]> Spain: Commemoration https://rroma.org/spain-commemoration/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spain-commemoration Sun, 30 Mar 2025 07:54:15 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27725 The Spanish city of Denia commemorated the liberation 275 years ago of nearly 300 Romnja and children who were arrested in a raid against Roma in 1749 that took place throughout Spain, incarcerated in the local fortress and only liberated a year later.

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