I don't want to generalize about it, but what I managed to see so far the idea of an average Slovene about Spain and its people happens to be based on these points:                               

 

1.) Flamenco
2.) Bulls
3.) Paella
4.) Fiesta & siesta
5.) Latin lovers

So, a country made of gipsies dancing flamenco everywhere,  surrounded by bulls, fatal seductive latino-look men at every corner, parties and  a lot of relaxing all day long with some risotto of exotic yellow colour – and that's it!
Well, I guess that someone that's only spent some summer days in Spain (Andalucía or on one of the islands, probably) truly can't get any different impression. After all, tourism is heavily promoted, and the flamenco image appears on TV day and night.

But once someone comes to Spain for a different reason, stops by and looks -either by accident or on purpose- into coffee-brown iberic eyes, lives in their homes, exchanges "hola" or some more words with the locals and -most of all- observes carefully everything around himself, then the fake turistic image gets blurry and becomes completey inaccurate.

While it's true that flamenco is an important part of the Spanish soul, this is only true in Andalucía, the very southern region of Spain. In the rest, a lot of different kinds of musics exist, from "jotas aragonesas" to the celtic touch of Galicia, passing by summer rock and heavy metal festivals and the sound of Jazz in Vitoria's yearly meeting. We won't forget the capital, where mixture of culture leads to different rythms in every corner, for public of all tastes.

Bullfighting is not popular anymore, except for 4 or 5 big plazas, full of elders and some other people only in special occasions, like the "Feria of San Isidro" or the Week of San Fermín, which in any case lately is made more of tourists than of Spanish people. It's true that this bussiness moves a lot of money and, as such, there's a lot of people trying to keep promoting it, but it's true as well that a big sector of population is completely against this barbaric act.

Paella is a tasty and very appretiated dish, over all in summer. But if you want to try it, make yourself a favour, and go try it in the places where they know how to make it. Namely, the Valencian community. In most of other places you won't get but a pre-frozen risotto with pieces of chicken. Not everything is paella, of course. In a country like Spain, every place has it's culinary speciality that will delight your senses. Meat or fish, rice or dessert. Spain is not only coast. It's a big country full of different colors and people.

Fiesta, on the other hand, it's a true fact of Spain. People likes to party, and the nice climate of summer nights makes them very important for Spanish people. There are also a lot of non-working days in the calendar, over all if we compare it to Slovenia, where I can count the free days with my fingers; and half of them fall on weekends anyway.

Siesta is more a matter of summer and older people, not so widespread as people might thing. True is, that in summer after a nice light lunch, there's nothing better for the body than 20 mins of rest. – If you have air conditioner, even better – The rest of year, it can be very beneficious if you can take a small time after lunch. Even Japanese are copying it!

Talking about "latino lovers"… I'd say, this stereotype is quite wrong. During all my time spent in Spain, I never got the feeling of being surrounded by any exaggeratedly seductive and adventurous men. (No, boring and sticky is not seductive). It might depend on the place you go, too. But however, all this has nothing to do with those latin handsome men, that touch the hearts of female Slovenes so much (in front of TV) and who are nothing but the protagonists of some South-American soap operas. The reality in those real latin places must be quite different.
In Spain, "hungry" boys try to imitate their latin comrades, but with quite pathetic results. Then they get into "intelligent" sentences such as "Am I dead? Cause I'm seeing an angel", and in desperate cases they resort to village-flirting "Opá morena, amos pal' huerto que te viá'cer mujé". (Literally…  hey, girl, let's go to the fields, to make you a woman).