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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Stories of Santa Cruz: the bandit, the conspirator and the Bible vendor
“Nowhere in the world are prisoners as abandoned to themselves”. This is how the British Bible vendor George Borrow described...
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Ambassadors of Louis XIV, prime ministers of Philip V
“It is necessary that the ambassador of His Majesty is minister of the Catholic King; who, without having the title,...
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300 years since the first diplomatic attempt to reclaim Gibraltar
In 1720, King Philip V commissioned his new ambassador in London, Jacinto de Pozobuene, to prepare the restitution of Gibraltar...
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History of Leon V, exiled King of Armenia and feudal lord of Madrid
Between the Cerro Almodóvar Park and the Vía Carpetana, in the Aluche neighbourhood in southwest Madrid, is the Leon V...
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Philip IV’s instructions on prostitutes and ambassadors of “evil life”
Philip IV, a king well known, among other reasons, for his frequent infidelities, love affairs and illegitimate children, was scandalized...
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Franco’s Spain represented Japan in Colombia during World War II
The Spanish Embassy in Bogota assumed the diplomatic representation of the Japanese colony residing in Colombia during World War II,...
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History of ‘Scarface’, a Nazi high command in Franco’s Spain
Otto Skorzeny arrived in Spain in 1951, protected by the regime of Francisco Franco. A former SS high command and...
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