Flamenco art results from a combination of the different musical cultures that developed in Andalucía, and which were passed on from generation to generation. Its history does not go back very far, as it has only existed for a little over two hundred years. Nonetheless, in this music it is possible to find the ancestral footprints of Jewish, Arabic, Castillian, ancient Andalusian and gypsy music, that is, of all the peoples who passed through Andalucía. Those who had the greatest influence on the exisiting foundation of Andalusian folk tradition in order for flamenco to arise were the gypsies. They arrived in Spain in the first quarter of the fifteenth century, but the word “flamenco” does not appear in reference to the songs and dances of the region of Andalucía in Spain until the middle of the nineteenth century.

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