An engaging account by Roger Crowley of the early trade wars between Spain and Portugal serves as a reminder of how money, greed and exploitation continues to shape the world ...

Passing as a man and adopting a series of male names, she fought in Spain ... Portuguese map, held today by the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, was produced in the mid-16th century.

Two maps in the archives ... in its South American empire, Spain withdrew its force, also leaving a plaque asserting its sovereignty. During the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth ...

Although much of Marbella is defined by its glitzy resort-town trappings, the Marbella Old Quarter – also known as Casco antiguo de Marbella – gives travelers a taste of old Spain. Here you'll ...

President Joe Biden has managed this national divide by marking both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day in separate White House proclamations. But rather than divide up for rival civic holidays, ...

Make like the Madrid local and spend some time getting to know Guadalajara E ven if you have been visiting Spain for years, ...

This clutch of queries focuses on our state icons, the earliest days of statehood — and the meaning behind the name we chose when we put this place on a United States map. Spain, Mexico ...

It had taken more than a year for the Discovery and the Chatham to make it here after departing from Falmouth, England, on a grand journey to map the ... after a 16th-century sailor who ...

Washington, D.C., bursts with iconic monuments and fabulous museums. I’ve lived in or near our nation’s capital off and on ...

Southwest Florida better be ready to celebrate a special birthday next week. The City of Sanibel celebrates its 50th anniversary on Tuesday, Nov. 5 ...

The Via Francigena was Europe’s overland spine, and it’s now growing in popularity as a slow-travel option through the ...