Or so it would seem if disheartening heraldic snippets in the Spanish press are any indication. The onetime home of the Marqués de Campo Villar, in the Bécares area of the Spanish province of León, has for decades lain in ruins; indeed the area seems to have become depopulated in the 19th century. Yet the…
De todos es sabido que muchos fueron los emprendedores que a lo largo de los siglos XVIII y XIX dejaron sus lugares de orígen al norte de España para buscar fortuna haciendo las Américas. Unos volvieron convertidos en ricos indianos, y se recuerdan sus historias en lugares como la casa-museo dedicada a ellos en la…
A baptism recorded at Seville’s parish of San Roque in December 1868 must have tested the limits of the priest’s ability to spell phonetically – in the effort to detail so many foreign names and places, the child’s name seems to have been omitted from the entry, unless the name ‘Eduardo’ scribbled in the margin,…