4678 From Portugal back to Castile. (3rd time)
4678 "Arab" arches prior to Arab invasion.
4678 Antique Iberian sculpture would find a fitting nest in America.
4679 Tordesillas.
Why do people speak of "the treaty" of Tordesillas when there were two?
And of two papal bulls, when there were three?
4682 Valladolid.
•)Here died Christopher Columbus (¿Salvadôr Gonçalves Zarco?)
•)Here Magellan and Charles V signed their Capitulations for the search of >>>>>>>a passage toward the Molucas Islands.
•)Here were published the first Quechua dictionary, the first grammar.
4684 Isn't Gothic as occidental as "visi"Gothic?
4686 In Spain, whole grain bread "by medical prescription" (!)
4689 Comparing styles Moresque, Mozarab, Mudejar, Isabeline, Plateresque, >>>>>Churrigeresque, neo-Mudejar.
4692 Madrid.
4693 Alcalá de Henares. First meeting between Sovereigns and Mariner.
4694 Columbus - Villa de Espinoza - Another theory of real identity.
4699 Taracena.
Finally, commemorating not the Great Admiral but a humble mariner.
4699 From the Castile of Isabel to the Aragon of Fernando, and further.
4699 If Isabel and Fernando had not married.
4700 Again, recent troglodyte dwellings, in this Europe.
4702 Ruins, but not archaeological ones; modern war ones, preserved.
4703 Another language, Catalonian.
4705 Common denominator between Romanesque art and much of pre-Columbian art: >>>>>visceral impact.
4706 The atrocity of "restorations".
4707 Spanish radiobroadcasting announces music from Bach not in Castilian or >>>>>German but in ... English.
4708 New Castilian words: teés - estó - tiqué.
4710 "Coffee pot for tea" and "informatic freeway".
4710 Unexpected pleasure of listening to many unknown compositions.
4714 Disgrace of authorities promoting the destruction of national language.
4714 A revolt is necessary to force the English language not to torture Latin >>>>>letters but to create for itself a graphic system adapted to its slippery >>>>>phonetic.
4715 Rising America as seen from Europe.
4718 Europe as seen from rising America.
4719 Europe after, long after, Columbus.
4721 Mundus Novus is more than America; it is Europe, the planet, the human >>>>>mind.