Editing Carmen Amaya (section)

=== Medals and recognition awards ===
Her death was a great loss for the entire Flamenco world. She was awarded with the Medalla del Mérito Turístico de [[Barcelona]], Lazo de Isabel la Católica and the title of Hija Adoptiva de [[Bagur]]. Her funeral summoned a large number of Roma People from different parts of [[Spain]] and even [[France]].

Amaya died in Bagur, where she spent her last days, her remains rest in the crypt of her husband's family, in Santander. Three years after her death in 1966, the statues of her were erected in the Parque de Montjuic in Barcelona, and in [[Buenos Aires]], while in [[Madrid]], in Tablao Los Califas, a tribute, led by Lucero Tena, among other artists, took place.  She was also honored in Llafranch ([[Girona]]) in 1970.

The personality of Carmen Amaya has been celebrated by critics, flamencologists and writers, as well as by poets, including Fernando Quiñones, author of the poem Soneto y letras en vivo para Car men Amaya. A selected transcription of these comments by Vicente Marrero, reads:
''Carmen Amaya can see the amazing conviction that sometimes tends to dance. "Gitanilla" ungainly, skinny, petite, almost disembodied. Brunette, with a tragic and remote idol face, Asian cheekbones, with long eyes full of omens, twisted arms. With her "repajolera" gypsy [Romani] grace, she is not just another millionaire in North America, but one of our great dancers, who has succeeded, with the secret of dance and her dance she was born  to dance, and she danced  phenomenally. Carmen Amaya, is her name, is not a different woman in each of her dances, as so often happens with other great dance figures.''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elartedevivirelflamenco.com/bailaores03.html|title=CARMEN AMAYA - BAILAORES/AS - El Arte de Vivir el Flamenco|first=El arte de vivir el|last=flamenco|website=elartedevivirelflamenco.com}}</ref>

''"Carmen Amaya can see the amazing conviction that sometimes tends to dance. "Gitanilla" ungainly, skinny, petite, almost disembodied. Brunette, with a tragic and remote idol face, Asian cheekbones, with long eyes full of omens, twisted arms. With her "repajolera" gypsy [Romani] grace, she is not just another millionaire in North America, but one of our great dancers, who has succeeded, with the secret of dance and her dance she was born  to dance, and she danced  phenomenally. Carmen Amaya, is her name, is not a different woman in each of her dances, as so often happens with other great dance figures."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elartedevivirelflamenco.com/bailaores03.html|title=CARMEN AMAYA - BAILAORES/AS - El Arte de Vivir el Flamenco|first=El arte de vivir el|last=flamenco|website=elartedevivirelflamenco.com}}</ref>''

Carmen's flamenco legacy is still valid to this day as an example of dancing with force, meter, intensity and power and a way of expression which brought an end to the sweetness of flamenco which had endured until that point. The famous producer [[Sol Hurok]] described Carmen as "The Human Vesuvius." Carmen Amaya has been the incarnation of the flamenco dance par excellence. She has danced in numerous films.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.deflamenco.com/revista/especiales/especial-centenario-carmen-amaya-1.html|title=Especial CENTENARIO CARMEN AMAYA - Revista DeFlamenco.com|date=2013-05-13|work=Revista DeFlamenco.com|access-date=2018-05-29|language=es-ES}}</ref>

On 2 November 2023, Google celebrated her 110th birthday with a [[Google Doodle]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Carmen Amaya's 110th Birthday|website=Google|date=2 November 2023|access-date=2 November 2023|url=https://doodles.google/doodle/carmen-amayas-110th-birthday/}}</ref>