The expression "blue blood" to describe royalty and nobility originated in medieval Spain and has deep cultural and historical roots.

The Reconquista began in the 8th century, shortly after the Arab-Berber conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, and ended in 1492, when Granadathe last Islamic bastion in Europe, was conquered by the ...

An essential piece of furniture in the home of many Spanish ‘abuelas’ (grandmothers) is the ‘mesa camilla’, a table with a ...

Like many things in Spain, it started as a Muslim Medieval City and became a Christian court in 1492. This became the last Moorish stronghold in the Iberian Peninsula. Seeing this complex’s ...

For more than 200 years, beginning with the expulsion of Jews from the Iberian peninsula in 1492, there was no Jewish life here. That changed in 1713 when Britain took control of the territory aff ...

They create and recreate Andalusian cuisine, which is from Al-Andalus, the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula, modern Portugal and Spain, between 711 and 1492. “In the end, what we do is an ...

In 1492, a significant moment took place when ... This event not only marked the end of centuries of Islamic rule in the Iberian Peninsula but also paved the way for the unification of Spain ...

Only in the Iberian peninsula, in Portugal and Castile ... All three set sail from Palos on August 3, 1492, and reached the Canary Islands nine days later. Three weeks were spent in the Canaries ...

The course also covers the Spanish background for the Conquest, from the martial and political expulsion of Moors and Jews from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492 to the Spanish Inquisition. (formerly SOAN ...

A set of footprints impressed in clay in the Honseca Cave (Velilla del Río Carrión, Palencia), which were made by cave bears ...