In Popular Culture
- This wind is a namesake for a song by Gibraltarian Flamenco Metal band Breed 77, who titled a track from their 2006 In My Blood (En Mi Sangre) album, "Viento De Levante".
- In 2007, the Levante was used as a way of advertising Coca-Cola Zero in Gibraltar by using the phrase "Gibraltar without the Levante".
- In his novel The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho refers to the Levante, describing the wind that brought the Moors to Spain.
- The Levante is mentioned in the historical fiction novel The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian.
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