Sánchez-Albornoz recalls his time as the first director of the Cervantes Institute: “We had no budget and no headquarters in Madrid”
Albares awards him the Grand Cross of Isabella the Catholic just days before his 100th birthday, “out of justice to our own democratic memory”

Sánchez-Albornoz and García Montero during the event. / Photo: YouTube/Instituto Cervantes
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