- Spanish/Foreign Language, Spanish/Second Language - Intermediate (A2-B1)
- Spanish as a mother tongue for those living abroad
- School children (aged approximately 14 and above) and adults

A journey through 20th-century Spain focusing on three fundamental generations: the war children, the children of “peace” and the children of freedom.

- Open, scalable, thematic structure.
- Learning through experience and emotions (activating emotional intelligence).
- Communicative approach, observation and grammar practice and intercultural comparison.
- Activities and tasks that are very diverse, active, fun and creative, with many topics for discussion (migration, flamenco, Spanish Civil War, dictatorship, transition, etc.), designed for working in pairs and groups.
- For intermediate level. Students will practice the past, and learn communication structures and functions to inform about it.
- Ideal for language and culture and conversation courses, integrating tasks of written and oral expression, reading comprehension and listening comprehension; and as a book to complement other methods above mid-A2 level.
- Useful as a self-learning reading book.
- Ideal for those who consider more transcendent content necessary for the Spanish as a Foreign Language class.
 

Does not require the teacher or students to have extensive knowledge of 20th-century Spain. The aim is to offer students of Spanish as a Foreign Language knowledge similar to that of most Spaniards today.

The Instituto Cervantes Curricular Plan 2006 includes aspects that have been present in LUCIÉRNAGAS since 2002.

An approach to the historical memory and emotions of Spaniards and to fundamental aspects of the 20th century through poems (Alberti, Manuel Machado, Antonio Machado, Cernuda, León Felipe, etc.), informational texts and biographies of real personalities, historic photographs and original music recordings (Joan Manuel Serrat, José Mercé, Aguaviva, Jarcha, Paco Ibáñez, etc.).

Appendix: chronology of 20th-century Spain. Key to exercises.