Emilio Cassinello, Spain’s former consul to New York, relives the 9/11 tragedy
Emilio Cassinello, one of Spain’s most prestigious diplomats and experts in international policy, lived the craziness of the attacks on
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“M”… 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...
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US and Germany’s Ambassadors, guests of the same hotel in the Second World War
What were the US and Germany’s Ambassadors doing in the same hotel of San Sebastián in August 1943, in the...
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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...
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Juan, Felipe and Diego of Persia: Muslim converts in the Spanish Court
The embassy that Shāh Abbās the Great sent to Felipe III to try to form a great alliance against the...
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Chile’s Embassy took in almost 4,000 refugees during the Civil War
In July 1936, when the military uprising against the Republic took place, a large part of the foreign embassies accredited...
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The failure of the first Persian embassy to the Spain of Felipe III
Between Isfahan, in Iran, and Valladolid, in Spain, there are 6,388 kilometres taking the shortest route and the trip can...
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The cricket player who ran away from Derbyshire and founded his Corte Inglés in Madrid
El Corte Inglés, the biggest Spanish distribution company and one of the most important of the world, has always taken...
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