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The first, dating from the 16th and early 17th century(3), does not have a signature that ties in with Mexican and Andean coinage. This result suggests that metals from Spanish colonies had not ...
In the 16th and 17th centuries, Spain rose as a great superpower with an empire spanning the globe. This vast wealth, alongside the renewed Catholic fervour of the Counter-Reformation kick-started ...
Domestic violence. Drug smuggling. Priests hauled into court for scandalous behavior. Welcome to Spain in the 17th century. Historian Lu Ann Homza took five students to Pamplona, Spain over spring ...
A replica 17th Century Spanish ship has arrived in Manx waters. Operated by Fundación Nato Victoria, Galéon Andalucía is 160ft (48m) long and weighs about 500 tonnes and serves as a floating ...
In 17th-century Spain and beyond, the ideal of feminine beauty was blonde hair and a deathly pallor. In Spain, it was a relatively common practice for women to bleach their faces.
Five hundred years in an alcove of a Spanish church is likely to leave any statue looking a bit cracked and faded, and the 16th-century wooden figure of St. George at St. Michael’s Church in ...
Catholic worshippers have been flocking to Alba de Tormes, a town ringed by rolling pastures in western Spain where the remains of the Spanish saint, mystic and 16th-century religious reformer ...
A 17th century Spanish galleon replica has docked in Whitehaven and will remain in the town for the rest of the week. The Galeón Andalucía arrived on 8 July and will be open to the public until 13 ...