I still remember visiting them, driving through mile after mile of pre-construction housing lots with nothing but dry, flat, arid land as far as the eye can see. It doesn't seem like a sustainable place on Earth for the standard American suburban sprawl.
No such place.
They don’t really do this any more. In spite of the stereotype, only a tiny proportion of Spanish workers still takes a siesta, while otherwise the tradition has died out and schedules are just like in any other European country. It would be interesting to see if climate change eventually restores the tradition to life.
In the evening everything would reopen. We had a pizzeria we liked, and it opened at 8pm and usually we were the only ones there at that time, as everyone else ate later :D
Another interesting thing is during the summer it would reach 40C / 100F there, but AC in homes was very rare.