Casa de América, Casa Asia and Centro Sefarad-Israel come together to present the first cycle of online talks V Centenario de la primera vuelta al mundo. The history of the Spanish explorations that crossed the Pacific Ocean, when the fifth centenary of the circumnavigation of Magellan and Elcano is celebrated, will be analyzed through three presentations. From the cosmography to the […]
In the year 2019 marks the fifth centenary of the start of the naval expedition initially led by the Portuguese navigator in the service of the Spanish Crown, Fernando de Magallanes, with the purpose of opening a new route to the Spice Islands. The trip ended three years later, on September 6, 1522, under the […]
In the 3rd session of the 1st cycle Dialogues between literature and science: the measurement and representation of the world, we will talk about the figure of the cartographer and navigator Juan de la Cosa (Santoña, between 1450 and 1460-Turbaco, 1510), known for having participated in seven of the first trips to America and for […]
October, from 3 to 5 of 2017 it will take place at the Centre of Studies of America- Columbus house of Valladolid the XXIV International Workshop about Discoveries and Cartography, that in this occasion it will focus on “De Fernando el Católico a Carlos I. La regencia de Cisneros”. The Centro de Estudios de América – Casa Colón and the Seminario […]