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    The Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso is one of the residences of the Spanish Royal family and is located in the Segovian town of Real Sitio de San Ildefonso.

    The Royal Site of La Granja is located on the northern slope of the Sierra de Guadarrama, 13 kilometers from Segovia, and about 80 kilometers from Madrid. Its name comes from an old farm that the Hieronymite monks of the monastery of El Parral had in the vicinity. In 1719, King Felipe V ordered the construction of a chapel in its surroundings, "without demolishing anything of the old" The northern slope of the Sierra de Guadarrama was during the Middle Ages a hunting place reserved for the kings of Castile, who frequented it given its hunting wealth and its proximity to the city of Segovia. The Duke of Anjou was born in Versailles (France) in 1683 and grew up in the court of his grandfather Louis XIV. An introverted character, he was affable and intelligent and very fond of physical exercise. In 1700, when he turned 17, he became Felipe V (the Courageous), King of Spain and the Indies. Extending over a hundred and forty-six hectares, the gardens surround the palace and are one of the best examples of design gardens of 18th century Europe. The fountains are inspired by classical mythology, including deities, allegories and mythological scenes. They were built in lead to prevent corrosion, although they were painted in imitation of bronze to ennoble them, as in Versailles. The largest is the Fountain of Neptune, which is made up of a rectangular basin and three aligned sculptural groups. In the center is Neptune with his trident on a chariot pulled by two horses with fish tails (Hippocampus) that expel water through their noses and in the prow of the chariot a triton holding a dolphin that expels a vertical jet of almost 30 meters High. On the sides two genies mounted on sea horses escort Neptune. Source Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso.


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    Testament of Isabel la Catolica. Medina del Campo November 23, 1504.

    "Therefore I beg the King, my Lord, very affectionately, and I order and command the said Princess my daughter and the said Prince her husband, that they do so and fulfill it, and that this be their main purpose, and that they put much diligence, and do not consent and give place to the Vesino Indians and residents in the said Indies and mainland, won and to be won, receive any injury to their persons and property, but I command that they be well and fairly treated. And if they have received any grievance, they will remedy it and provide for it, in such a way that it does not excel in anything what is mandated and commanded by the Apostolic Letters of the said concession."

    Image of the coffin of Isabel la Católica on her way to Granada

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    According to oral family tradition E-FT155550 comes from a deserter of Napoleon's troops (1808-1813) who stayed in Spain and changed his surname.

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    Without paying much attention to the political veneer behind the composition of this poem by Miguel Hernández, I think that this shows well how is Spain or maybe better, Spanish.

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    #TODAY
    A day like today in 1763, by the Treaty of Paris, Spain obtains Louisiana from France (current Louisiana, Missouri, Kansas and Dakota, among others) and delivers Florida to Great Britain. The latter, however, would become Spanish territory again a few years later. Cities such as St. Louis or St. Charles, in Missouri, but especially New Orleans, today keep important memories of the Hispanic legacy of their territories in the form of streets, squares and buildings of all kinds.


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    Cobres Carnival in Vilaboa do Morrazo, Pontevedra, Galicia. This ancestral tradition has been preserved in San Adrián de Cobres and Santa Cristina de Cobres, two small parishes in As Rías Baixas. It dates back to the 18th century.




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    The Arco de la Estrella is the main gateway to the walled enclosure since the fifteenth century, being the best known in the medieval city of Cáceres, Spain.


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    Catalina de Aragon She was one of the few Spanish women who married an English King and reigned in England.

    was Queen of England as the first wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 11 June 1509 until their annulment on 23 May 1533. She was previously Princess of Wales as the wife of Henry's elder brother, Arthur, Prince of Wales.

    The daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, Catherine was three years old when she was betrothed to Prince Arthur, heir apparent to the English throne. They married in 1501, but Arthur died five months later. Catherine held the position of ambassador of the Aragonese crown to England in 1507, the first known female ambassador in European history.[1] She married Arthur's younger brother, the recently ascended Henry VIII, in 1509. For six months in 1513, she served as regent of England while Henry VIII was in France. During that time the English crushed and defeated the Scottish at the Battle of Flodden, an event in which Catherine played an important part with an emotional speech about English courage.[2]

    By 1525, Henry VIII was infatuated with Anne Boleyn and dissatisfied that his marriage to Catherine had produced no surviving sons, leaving their daughter Mary as heir presumptive at a time when there was no established precedent for a woman on the throne. He sought to have their marriage annulled, setting in motion a chain of events that led to England's schism with the Catholic Church. When Pope Clement VII refused to annul the marriage, Henry defied him by assuming supremacy over religious matters. In 1533 their marriage was consequently declared invalid and Henry married Anne on the judgement of clergy in England, without reference to the pope. Catherine refused to accept Henry as supreme head of the Church in England and considered herself the king's rightful wife and queen, attracting much popular sympathy.[3] Despite this, Henry acknowledged her only as dowager princess of Wales. After being banished from court by Henry, Catherine lived out the remainder of her life at Kimbolton Castle, dying there in January 1536 of cancer. The English people held Catherine in high esteem, and her death set off tremendous mourning.[4] Her daughter Mary would become the first undisputed English queen regnant in 1553.

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    Quote Originally Posted by solarisregvm View Post
    In New Spain one of the most ambitious scientific expeditions in history. It discovered more than 1,000 plant species and classified hundreds of mammals, birds, and amphibians. In 1787, King Carlos III authorized Martín Sesse, an excellent Spanish and Aragonese soldier, doctor and naturalist, to start an ambitious expedition to America to classify the flora and fauna of Mexico, California and the rest of the Spanish territories in North America. The preparation of the expedition was long. Sessé began by researching the Spanish Caribbean (Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico and Cuba) and joining the team with Spanish pharmacists, naturalists and botanists. Among them was Mariano Mociño, a native of New Spain. In 1792, while Sessé and the pharmacists remained in California, Mociño embarked on the frigate of the Spanish captain Bodega y Quadra, whom he accompanied as a naturalist to tour the Spanish possessions on the north coast. From the american continent. Bodega y Quadra's expedition reached Alaska and remained in northern territory. Upon his return in 1794, Mociño showed Sessé his "Noticias de Nutka" work that gave an account of the life and customs of the natives of the area, as well as Canadian fauna and flora.

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