Problems of Spanish culture periodization and determination

This article examines the specificity of the formation of the culture of Spain, which is determined by its unique complex historical fate. The Iberian Peninsula was inhabited by various peoples, which determined the vector of the formation of Spanish culture as a mixture of mutually influencing cultures. The European culture traditional periodization, describing Western European countries' culture development, passing through Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the era of cultural and historical change, Modern and Postmodern, does not work on Spanish cultural material. The complexity, uneven development of the history of Spain, the history of Spanish culture for a long time left aside fundamentally important issues - Spanish culture specific culturalfeatures definition, that create its unique cultural code.