Stories and Fascinating Legends

Have you never thought about the why of an expression or a tradition? Learn about the history of Spain through stories and legends of interest. Fascinating Spain is the community that organizes this content.

  • Granada

    The thousand origins of the name of Granada

    The history of Hercules with the Andalusian Community is very exhaustive. His love for Andalusia when it was not even Andalusia began many centuries ago. He did it with his crush for the land where the Guadalquivir, at that time Betis, was divided into two branches. He baptized that land as Híspalis, like the singers, […]

  • Hercules

    The story of Hercules and Seville, a mutual crush

    Hercules, Heracles for the Greeks, is not the god of love, but as if he were. Many, but many centuries ago, between the arms of the Guadalquivir River he played the role of celestine. He fell in love with his fertile and rural land, to later present it to the rest of civilizations that did […]

  • Luisa de Medrano, the professor who lived only through letters | Timeless Women 2

    To understand this story, we must first imagine a classroom set up for teaching, at the beginning of the 16th century. One overflowing with young people, because at this time university teaching was just beginning to become popular. Perhaps among those young people there was a young girl too, belonging to some influential family. She […]

  • Atlantis

    Atlantis, the underwater city “beyond the Pillars of Hercules”

    When atmospheric phenomena were not yet named in alphabetical order, a cataclysm triggered by Poseidon managed to make an island disappear. It was as big as a continent, but the disaster did not take long. It took only a day and a night to submerge it under the water of the Atlantic and decorate it […]

  • tartessos

    Tartessos, the myth of the hidden kingdom you might have stepped into without knowing

    “The siesta in Andalusia was invented by the Tartessians”, said Chano Lobato, flamenco singer and comedian. He says this because throughout Spain, not only in Andalusia, the siesta has accompanied its inhabitants since one of its most ancestral civilisations arose. Tartessos, of course. But leaving aside clichés and jokes, deeper questions arise: What mysteries surround […]

Atlantis, the underwater city “beyond the Pillars of Hercules”
Miracle and gafe of Santa María la Real
Pedro Madruga: cleric, knight and discoverer?
Luisa de Medrano, the professor who lived only through letters | Timeless Women 2
Tribute of the hundred maidens and the Apostle
The Bispo Santo and the Normans
The thousand origins of the name of Granada
The fascinating legend of Olentzero
The Mutiny of the Trout
The fish man of Liérganes
Tartessos, the myth of the hidden kingdom you might have stepped into without knowing
The yellow bird and the first aerial stowaway in history
The Order of Santiago and the Re-Conquering of Cáceres
The Battle of Roncesvalles
The ‘Passage of arms’ by Suero de Quiñones
Miracle and tragedy of the Virgen del Puy
The story of Hercules and Seville, a mutual crush
Sisnando Menéndez and the landing of Catoira.
Pedro Pardo de Cela, the marshal of Mondoñedo
The War of Navarrería in Pamplona
The battle of Rande and the lost treasure
Alfonso the Chaste: The First Pilgrim of Compostela
History of The invention of the calimocho