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Christmas is all around! The season’s joy, family moments and of course….presents! The little ones must have been worn to be “good kids or you‘d be given carbon” However, there was a time when carbon was considered a good present. That’s... Continue reading
The victory of Aliatar in the siege of Loja in July 1482 served to consolidate in the throne his son-in-law: the... Continue reading
We recommend reading our pages about the two antecedents: the beginning of the common uprising by the lynching of... Continue reading
Who has not heard of the Battle of Roncesvalles, with Charlemagne and the knight Roldán? This is one of the most... Continue reading
The character known by the name Pedro Madruga was a bastard son of the eldest son of the main noble family of... Continue reading
As we explained in the story of the infatuation between Sultan Muley Hacen and his prisoner Isabel de Solis (known... Continue reading
According to a tradition, during the night of May 25, 1085 some shepherds of the Navarrese town of Abárzuza were... Continue reading
In Canabal de San Pedro, Lugo, in the year 1935, the writer Leandro Carré Alvarellos heard a friend telling the... Continue reading
In the beginning of the third decade of the eighteenth century a wise man called Father Feijoo told the story of... Continue reading
Louis VII (1120 – 1180) was an heir to the crown of France. From the start of his childhood, he was very pious,... Continue reading
Santa María la Real is a legendary church intimately linked to the figure of García Sánchez III, king of... Continue reading
There are events in history that are kind of blurred, because stories don't always have logic or people don't want... Continue reading
In the evening of the first day of January 1434, in the main hall of the castle of La Mota – in Medina del... Continue reading
García Fernández was the son and heir of Fernán González (the first Count of Castilla). He was a robust and... Continue reading
The calimocho is linked to the old port of Algorta, located in the northeast of the town of Getxo (at the exit to... Continue reading
In 1487, two simultaneous dramas were being developed on the lands of the Kingdom of Granada. On the one hand,... Continue reading
It is not known how much there is of legend and history about what for more than five centuries has been told and... Continue reading
The origin of St James’ shell dates back more than a thousand years. However, its background is even more... Continue reading
By the end of the seventh century the Visigothic Kingdom was debating its usual and bloody struggles for power.... Continue reading
The legendary tribute of the hundred maidens and the apostle is tied to the historical figure of Mauregato,... Continue reading
Puente la Reina is the Navarrese village where the two main branches of the Camino de Santiago are located: the... Continue reading
According to legend, the Order of Santiago, the most prestigious military group in the Iberian Peninsula, was... Continue reading
King Alfonso II of Asturias (born in 760) has come to be known as the first pilgrim to journey to the tomb of the... Continue reading
