Peter Paul Rubens: spy and ambassador just for the love of art
In the midst of the XVII century, when Europe was a chess board in which the great princes played around ...
Month: August 2026
British Cemetery in Madrid: the final resting place for “heretic” diplomats
Being foreign diplomat in Spain, and in Madrid to be exact, was not always synonymous with privilege. Until 1854, at ...
Rubén Darío, Nicaragua’s Ambassador to the Spain of Alfonso XIII
Apart from narrator, essayist, chronicler, thinker, master of Modernism and cultural critic, Rubén Darío was a diplomat. Between the end ...
History of Piotr Potemkin and the first Russian embassy in Spanish history
In 1668, the Court of the unfortunate Charles II received in Madrid Piotr Ivánovich Potemkin, who thus had the honor ...
British agent “M”… was born and died in Spain?
Did “M” exist in real life? In Ian Fleming’s novels, James Bond’s boss at MI6 is Vice Admiral Sir Miles ...
Spain’s ambiguous role in Equatorial Guinea’s ‘Freedom Coup’
On August 3, 1979, the then commander in chief of the Army of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, took up ...
Líjar against France: Hundred Years’ War in a town of Almería
In October 1883, the town council of Líjar, in Almería, declared war on France to apologize to King Alfonso XII, ...
