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their empire. It is a term that gathers all accusations against Spain and it indicates the unfavorable image of cruelty and basically embodies a belief that Spaniards are evil, greedy and fanatical people. La Leyenda Negra originated in the 16th century during the protestant reformation and the era of inquisitorial Spain. It circulated

Christopher Columbus was an Italian Explorer and Navigator. He is known world-wide for the discovery of the “New World”. Columbus is credited with the discovery of the Americas because of his expedition across the Atlantic from Spain. His hope with this expedition was to find a new route to India instead of the long voyage around Cape of Good Hope. Columbus made a total of four voyages to the Caribbean and South America, between 1492 and 1504. He has credited for opening the Americas up to colonization

Continuing to seek more knowledge, this gave Christopher a good amount of experience, so in the year of 1486 he set off to Spain, with his exemplary idea. When he reached Spain he began pressing at the Royal Court to support his plan, even though they declined him because of the seven-hundred years war, Columbus believed it would soon be a spanish victory, so he remained in Spain to re-present his case. In having this exemplary education, he continued to seek jobs and find ways of gaining more experience

together the small kingdoms of Spain. Socially, this marriage inspired the king and queen to make everybody in Spain a Catholic. Following the Spanish Inquisition, this wasn’t that hard. Isabella wanted to make everyone follow her religion and to be the same. By successfully doing this, the king and queen felt that the Spanish people that they ruled over would not undermine their authority but respect it. As they wished, the king and queen converted everybody in Spain to Catholicism. The Spanish Muslims

unable to ameliorate the conditions of terrible poverty in which millions of its citizens lived. Spain was a country in which landless peasants cobbled together a bare subsistence

Compagnie du Froid, S.A., is facing. The points in FY 2009 that grabbed our attention are: a) Spain

Introduction Presently, people travel to explore and experience authentic cuisines all around the world. The food and beverage that a certain country is the main element and one of the top three rationale why the traveler/tourist choose their vacation escapade. An emerging trend that is annually increasing is “Culinary/Wine Tourism.” Culinary Tourism alias “Gastronomic Tourism,” “Tasting Tourism,” or “Food Tourism.” It refers to the regional food and beverage that a country can showcase while wine

Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teodulo Franco Bahamonde, or more commonly Francisco Franco, was born on December 4, 1892 in Ferrol, Galicia, Spain. Franco was born to Nicolas Franco y Salgado-Araújo, a Spanish Naval Officer, and María del Pilar Bahamonde y Pardo de Andrade, an upper middle class Roman Catholic. Until the age of 12, Francisco attended El Ferrol’s Roman Catholic School of the Sacred Heart, a small private school run by a priest; he would then attend a naval secondary school. His family

Labyrinth depicts this time period of Spain in a surrealist setting as it follows the adventures of a young girl, Ofelia, as she goes between a dark underground world and the real world. While the film is often surrealist, it also displays the violent ways of the early Francoist period in the camp of Ofelia’s stepfather, the Falangist Captain Vidal. Throughout the film a dark atmosphere, surreal elements, and distinct characters help develop the setting and mood of Spain during this time. In

When arriving in Spain in 1493, Columbus presented to Queen Isabella his captain’s log the daily account of what he had witnessed on his voyage. The following extract from the documents he had made he described his impressions of the Native Americans and how he acted towards them. Columbus had to convince the King and Queen of Spain to finance his voyage for gold and spices. The first land sighted on Columbus voyage was san Salvador. The second landfall sighted was Cuba. The third land sighted was