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For the first time, Madrid and Milan have knocked Paris, London and New York off the top spots. #EuropeInMotion ...
Here is a selection of awe-inspiring photos as the long-awaited Spanish galleon makes its dramatic entrance to Scarborough’s ...
Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?
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Catholic worshippers have been flocking to Alba de Tormes, a town ringed by rolling pastures in western Spain where the remains of the Spanish saint, mystic and 16th-century religious reformer ...
Saint Teresa, who died in 1582, is a towering figure from Spain's Golden Age and 16th-century counter-reformation. More on Spain Climber died in fall during holiday with father in Spain, inquest hears ...
Prince Baltasar Carlos on Horseback, by the workshop of Diego Velázquez (1599-1660), is on loan to The Spanish Gallery, in Bishop Auckland, from the Dulwich Picture Gallery.
The books contain lists of records of the people who traveled from Spain to the New World in the 16th century. The entries were altered from the original in that accents were added and abbreviated ...
It is surprising that Romany women were among the first from Spain to the Americas, given that Romanies were persecuted in 16th-century Spain. Catalina and María were convicted criminals.
King Felipe VI of Spain was not invited to the event due, in part, to a dispute over Spain's 16th century defeat of Mexico's ... During a visit to New York last week for the United ...
I’d come researching my new book, The Barn, a history of the 36 square miles of dirt around the place where Emmett Till was tortured and killed in 1955.The barn, which I first wrote about for ...
From new bases there, Alfonso de Albuquerque would conquer Hormuz to control the Gulf, and then in 1511 Malacca on the Malayan peninsula, within striking distance of the “Spice Islands”.