Spanish cultural diplomacy in Portugal: Cultural programming of the Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa and SPAIN arts & culture

Abstract

The Instituto Cervantes and the government platform SPAIN arts & culture are two of the primary protagonists of Spanish cultural diplomacy abroad. Based on two corpora prepared with the cultural activities published by the Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa and the government platform SPAIN arts & culture on their websites, the main objective of this article is to portray Spanish cultural diplomacy in Portugal. The data obtained manually or semi-automatically suggest that Spanish cultural diplomacy is an unequivocal object of interest in Portugal, with Lisbon being its main geo-cultural hub. Moreover, the incorporation of other agents in what is termed cultural paradiplomacy is not a common practice.