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History and Legends

The worst shipwrecks in the history of Spain

05/10/22
Image: Shutterstock

How Madrid became the capital of Spain

04/10/22

The Spanish weather and places that are doomed to disappear

19/09/22

The worst fires in the history of Spain

11/09/22

Map of the Magellan-Elcano expedition: the first circumnavigation of the world

08/09/22

The House of Hippolytus, a peculiar Roman school

01/08/22

The first ever book to be printed in Spain

20/06/22
The graveyard of Teresa, the lovers of Bausen

The tragic lovers of Bausen: the origin of Spain’s smallest graveyard

15/06/22
Sculpture of James III the Rush en Llucmajor. | Antoni Salvà, Wikimedia

Why was James III known as the Rash (or the Unfortunate)?

12/05/22

When Belmonte Castle became Helm's Deep

12/04/22
luis reign

The shortest reign in Spanish history

17/03/22
spanish flu

The Spanish flu, a non-Spanish pandemic

25/02/22
pompeii alcubierre

Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre, the Spaniard who discovered Pompeii

23/02/22
cabanyal valencia

El Cabanyal of Valencia: shantytowns, modernism and speculation

16/02/22
berlin wall

Discovering the Berlin Wall... in Spain

16/02/22

Atlantis, the underwater city "beyond the Pillars of Hercules"

02/02/22
alfonso x the wise

Why Alfonso X was called 'the Wise'?

13/12/21
civil war

When the Civil War caused the largest prison break in Spanish history

03/11/21
pope

When the pope banned bullfighting on pain of excommunication

27/10/21
coco

The monster that scares half the world: the Coco

21/10/21
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