The Spanish miracle (Spanish: el milagro español) was the name given to a broadly based economic boom in Spain from 1959 to 1974. The international oil and stagflation crises of the 1970s ended the boom.
Famous quotes containing the words spanish and/or miracle:
“In French literature, you can choose “à la carte”; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)
“This was your place of birth, this daytime palace,
This miracle of glass....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)