We inaugurate this section with a summer theme, at least in the South we are used to tourism and the influx of "guiris" our towns. The term "foreigner" is commonly used for the English, but do we know where it comes from that word?.
As the term comes from the time of the regency of Maria Cristina in favor of his daughter Elizabeth II that has not yet reached adulthood. This had to add that his father Fernando VII abolished the Salic law, law that women could not ascend the throne. It was a very criticized by conservatives who happen absolutist wanted the figure of the king had all the powers and were the only be empowered to decide the fate of Spain, for when the king Fernando VII decided to abolish the Salic law did not agree and when he died and saw that they would carry into practice the change they revolted in the name of the brother of Fernando VII, Carlos, hence they are called Carlist. Thus began the civil war in Spain between Elizabethan (liberals) and Carlist (Conservatives).
Well civil war in that the Basque and Navarre called supporters of Isabel, and his mother the regent Maria Cristina, liberals mostly in Basque Christines giristinos serious. So all that would be no less English Carlist, would giristinos, word today and would evolve a foreigner to draw tourists from outside Spain. There is another theory that the soldiers of Elizabeth II wore on his hat stands GRI (Royal Guard infantry), hence would the word foreigner, to try to mention the acronym. By extension all uniformed or representatives of Isabel and the Liberals came to be called guiris. In fact there who today remains the term for uniform guripas especially the civil guard.
Pd: It's funny that they are absolutists who do not abide by the decisions after the monarch.
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