Napoleon’s ambassador tells his version of May 2nd uprising in Madrid
On May 2, 1808, the rumor that the royal family intended to leave Madrid to meet with Carlos IV in Bayonne caused a popular uproar that the disproportionate
The Holy Week in Baroque Madrid told by a French aristocrat
In April 1679, the Countess Madame d'Aulnoy, a French aristocrat who wrote fairy tales, got to know first hand the...
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17th century Madrid’s Holy Week in the eyes of a Muslim Ambassador
In 1690, the Moroccan Sultan Muley Ismail sent to Madrid his personal secretary, Abd al-Wahhab al Gassani, from Fez and...
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An American diplomat in the Sevillian Holy Week of the 19th century
The life of American diplomat, historian and journalist Stephen Bonsal (1865-1951) was more related to Cuba than to Spain, as...
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Rosendo the rocker pays tribute in Australia to Rosendo the missionary
The story seems picturesque, crazy and even surreal, but it happened as it is told: Rosendo Mercado, the veteran rocker...
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Gifts from the Three Wise Men, a Hispanic tradition with 500 years of history
The identification of the Three Wise Men as “gift givers” par excellence at Christmas in Spain and in most of...
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Saudi Embassy swallowed an ABC practical joke about oil prices in 1979
Before the fake news became fashionable all over the world, in Spain and in many other places it was already...
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The Nativity Scene: a Neapolitan custom which Carlos II brought to Spain
Tradition says that the Christmas custom of representing the scenes of the Nativity of Jesus with figures was introduced in...
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Troubetzkoy, the Russian princess who introduced the Christmas tree in Spain
As it is common in these cases, the origin of the Christmas tree includes all kinds of legends, from those...
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