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4554 From Portugal to Spain.  (2nd time)
4554 Through here Christopher Columbus escaped, from Portugal to Spain;
     (maybe Salvadôr Gonçalves Zarco).
4555 Monastery of La Rábida; then, now.
4556 Town and harbor of Palos; then, now.
4559 The triangle Columbus - La Rábida - the Crown.
4559 The many circumstances - some iconoclast, some only fascinating, some >>>>>ignored, some silenced in the popular mythology - of the preparations, >>>>>the actual odyssey and the return of Columbus's voyage I.
4572 The varied transatlantic voyages commemorating Christopher's voyage I.  >>>>>The only one missing is a submarine one.
4575 The two caravels and the nao of Columbus, in reproduction, of course, >>>>>but in true size.  Scandalously  diminutive.
4577 La Pinta, the first one to reach American land, the first one to come >>>>>back to Spanish land.
4577 La Niña went again, in voyage II.
4578 Moguer.
     Santa Clara convent. Here Columbus kept a promise made during a storm.
4580 Megalithic chamber with a sketch, reminder of the sketch in New England >>>>>said be of the Carthaginian goddess Tanish/Tanit.
4581 Zalamea.  Sixty seconds of real anguish.
4581 Castilleja de la Cuesta.  Here Hernán Cortés died.
4582 Sevilla. 
      •)Here Columbus spoke with Isabel; received the doubly famous letter from >>>>>>>the Portuguese king; sold American slaves; etc.
     •)Here Vespucci died. 
     •)General Archives of the Indias.
      •)In Santo Domingo we saw one, in Sevilla we saw one; two candidates for >>>>>>>Christopher Columbus in eternal sleep - and confrontation. >>>>>>>>
     •)There were the four voyages, and a fifth one - in coffin. 
     •)About the Tartesians.
4590 Right now, the fair, the Fair, of the Sevillans, Ladies and Caballeros.
4591 Itálica: Roman ruins.  Still quite meager in comparison with American >>>>>archaeology; except for the amphitheatre, mosaics, the sewer.
4593 Sanlúcar de Barrameda.
     •)From here Columbus sailed for his third voyage, from which he was to >>>>>>> come back in shackles. 
     •)From here Magellan sailed.  Magellan never circumnavigated the globe. 
     •)From here sailed many other names of the Great Adventure.
4607 Accursed Gests, also part of the Great Adventure.
4619 A church, mixture of ogival, mudejar, baroque.
4619 Why are all tires screeching?
4620 Cádiz.
     •)From here Columbus sailed for his zenith second Voyage, and the >>>>>>>beginning of his final disgrace. 
     •)From here, saddly, Columbus sailed for his fourth Voyage. 
     •)From here sailed Vespucci for his first authentic voyage.
4627 Vespucci, man of science; Columbus, man of mysticism.
4628 Cádiz, 1496.  The first vessels built in America are arriving.
4629 From Cádiz to Tarifa, angry wind.
4630 Tarifa - across Africa.
     •)The case of Hano from Carthage. 
     •)The case of the Carthaginians in the British Isles. 
     •)The case of Komassakumkanit in New England. 
     •)Morocco is not in Africa - according to Vespuccian inconceptualism. 
     •)Black slavery. 
     •)Black expeditions in America before Columbus. 
     •)Smoking spread from America into the world, but first from Africa to >>>>>>>America. 
     •)The case of the Southamerican tetraploid cotton. 
     •)If bananas "were introduced in America in 1516", how come Orellana saw >>>>>>>bananas growing, and we, a banana fossil?
4648 Santa Fe. Here, Queen Isabel, King Fernando and Mariner Christopher had >>>>>their last discord and signed their very weird Capitulations - without >>>>>mention of reaching the Indies across the Atlantic, with mention of lands >>>>>already discovered by Columbus in the Atlantic ...
4654 Caves with recent occupation as dwellings, in acropoline Europe, as we >>>>>never saw in America.
4656 Córdoba.
     •)Same as in America, re-using materials of previous culture. 
     •)Columbus succeeds in his first contact with the Court - not the Kings. 
     •)Columbus gets his future biographer, Hernando. 
     •)Columns reminiscent of columns in Cholula.
4662 From Andalusia to Extremadura.
4663 ¿This, Extremadura?  ¿So vigorous?
4663 Jerez de los Caballeros.
     •)Here were born Vasco Núñez de Balboa and Hernando de Soto.
     •)Who were the Caballeros?
4665 Medellín.  Here was born Hernán Cortés.
4666 Villanueva de la Serena.  Here was born Pedro de Valdivia.
4666 Very Christian storks: with a cross planted in their nest.
4667 Orellana la Vieja.  No, here was not born Orellana.
4667 Guadalupe. Here Columbus prayed before voyage I; fulfilled his promise >>>>>after voyage I; brought from voyage III two "Indians" to be baptized.
4669 Trujillo. Here were born four Pizarros - Francisco and three half-
>>>>>brothers; Francisco de Orellana; many others.
4670 Mérida. Finally, Roman ruins captivating American style.
4671 Cáceres. Final point as cradle of famous and infamous names.
4672 Monastery even more tiny than the one in Teotihuacan.