The SPANISH GROUP OF WORLD HERITAGE CITIES is made up of eight monumental centres -Avila, Caceres, Cordoba, Cuenca, Salamanca , Santiago de Compostela, Segovia and Toledo, which were joined together by this distinction of the UNESCO between the years 1985 and 1998. Spain is, in this way, the country in the world with the largest number of cities holding this prestigious title. In 1993 they ...

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado Spanish, born in Salamanca, ca. 1510, died in Mexico City, 1554. Coronado was governor of New Galicia (contemporary Sinaloa and Nayarit, Mexico). As such he had already sent out Fray Marcos de Niza on a voyage to the north, to New Mexico. When Marcos returned he told about a wealthy, golden city, called Cibola. Of course this raised Coronado's interest, and he ...

Welcome to Dieciocho! Dieciocho is a journal dedicated to what we call the Hispanic Enlightenment, that is, to eighteenth-century studies in Spain and Latin America. In our pages you will find articles in English or Spanish about the literature, history, art and thought of those two areas. In addition, you will find reviews of the latest books, current bibliography ( Cajon de sastre ...

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