Spanish and Latin-American Culture, Literature and History

Since last December 1st, Granada has the honour of having the title of City of Literature, distinction awarded by Unesco to those cities which stand out because of their cultural and artistic heritage. This award is even more remarkable since it’s the first and only

Everyone knows that is not entirely correct to say that in Spain they speak  “Spanish” (or ” Castilian ” ) , and no more else, because each of the Autonomous Communities , has its own linguistic characteristics , and in some of them, like Catalonia

Today we will talk about a very interesting book of  “thriller” plot: ” The Club Dumas” by Arturo Perez -Reverte , a Spanish writer and journalist , member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 2003. He wrote this book in 1993 and it is focused

Today we will talk about a Spanish author who in the last period was considered to be the one who more did talk about him and his books. We are talking of Carlos Luis Zafón and in particular of his best-known  and most sublime work,

The Spanish Golden Age begins in 1492, with the end of the Reconquista (Reconquest), the sea voyages to the New World, the reigns of Carlos I and Felipe II, and it ends in the middle of the XVII Century. The Catholic Monarchs had a goal

El Albaicín loses another piece of its historical heritages. Friday evening died José Ferrer González, cantaor flamenco known as “El Niño de las Almendras”. In this way an age of flamenco ends, the flamenco of the struggle and of the poverty. The flamenco guitarist and

MARIANA PINEDA Mariana de Pineda y Muñoz, generally known as Mariana Pineda, (1 September 1804–26 May 1831) was an Andalusian national heroine. At a very young age, she married Manuel Peralta Valte, a liberal army officer, but was widowed in 1822 with two children. She