Many groups throughout history have inhabited the borders of modern Spain. Four of these groups have had a profound influence on modern Castilian culture: they are the Galicians, the Basques, the Catalans and the Islamic Moors. This mixture of four microcultures led to Spain being nicknamed “The Spains” (Douglass, 1991, p. 127). All four regions have strong regional pride. The people of Galicia are known as Gallegans or Galicians and are a Celtic group whose cultural characteristics are vestiges of pre-Roman times and whose influences remain in both the appearance and culture of the region (Alvarez -Sanchis, 2005, paragraph 4). McCarthy (2011) states that Galician identity is based on their Celtic heritage which is different from their Castilian identity on the Iberian Peninsula (p.3). Galician cultural identity is linked to a pan-European Celtic culture that transcends national borders (McCarthy, 2011, p. 7). The Galician language is a Celtic hybrid called Gallego and is still spoken in the northwestern regions of Spain identified as modern Galicia. The people of ...