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Spain's tourism sector, of undeniable importance, has been on the rise in recent years, resulting in a considerable expansion in the range of these types of texts along with an increase in tourists' demands with regards to them, due to their greater levels of knowledge. This paper addresses the need for translators to acquire expert knowledge in translation studies in order to properly complete semispecialised tourism texts. An architecture guide was chosen because it features a series of characteristics that place it halfway between a tourism guide and a specialised text on architecture. The publication by the Junta de Andalucía (regional government) of the architecture guides of the eight Andalusian provinces has made it possible to share Andalusia's architectural heritage with tourists interested in it. Translated only into English, these guides have become very useful tools in classes covering the translation of tourism texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By the end of the eighteenth and during the first-third of the nineteenth centuries, the development of science in Spain was dependent upon the scientific revolution taking place in Europe. This generated an enormous interest in translating famous scientific manuals and specialised works coming from France and other European countries. These translated texts compensated for the scarce production of this type of publications in Spain. The increasing demand on food and the numerous discoveries in the field of chemistry favoured food adulteration and food growing in a huge fertilised crop. The great concern about food fraud, more and more frequent at the time, encouraged both the authorities and scientists to control the works on food fraud that were being published throughout Europe, especially in France and Germany. Therefore, translated versions were produced in order to reveal the contents of such works. Among these, Alphonse Chevallier's Dictionnaire des alterations et falsifications des substances alimentaires, médicamenteuses et commerciales ave l'indication des moyens de les reconnaïtre (published in 1850) is the most celebrated, and was translated into Spanish by the Chemist Ramón Ruiz Gómez as Diccionario de alteraciones y falsificaciones de las sustancias alimenticias, medicamentosas y comerciales con la indicación de los medios para reconocerlas (1854). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]