n 2019, 83.7 million tourists travelled to Spain where they spent €92.28bn (approx £81bn). This is one reason why the Spanish economy has grown to become the fourth largest in the European Union. Yet Spaniards have not always enjoyed the self-confidence of today. At the tail end of the 19th century, they suffered a crushing and humiliating defeat at the hands of the United States in Cuba, leaving the Spanish newspaper to bemoan
