The Three Wise Men’s gifts, 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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Riego’s military uprising and the failure of the “reconquest” of America
On January 1, 1820, exactly two hundred years ago today, Lieutenant Colonel Rafael del Riego led a pronouncement in Andalusia
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The Saudi Arabian Embassy ‘swallowed’ 40 years ago an ABC oil joke
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 III 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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Villancicos: a genre relegated to Christmas by Austrias and Bourbons
Like Christmas carol among English speakers, Noël among French speakers or Weihnachtslieder among German speakers, Villancico is the Christmas song...
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National Lottery’s war origin, from Esquilache to the Cortes of Cádiz
In 1759, Carlos VII of Naples became Carlos III of Spain, and by virtue of this, one of his main...
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History of the Christmas market in Madrid’s Plaza Mayor
In 2019 it will be just four hundred years since the urbanization of Madrid's Plaza Mayor, a privileged setting of...
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