Pizarro
It seemed fitting, or perhaps highly inappropriate, to get my picture taken with the huge monument to Pizarro, Extremadura's Peru conquering native son, only months after visiting the Latin American nation.
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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... [read more]
Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... [read more] Blog: Into the wilds
Date: April 5th 2006
NYU's dime--which is to say my parents dime, translated through innumerable internal NYU accounts--took a bunch of us to one of Spain's least famed autonomías: Extremadura. Though its marginal status and name are somewhat justified (the land to interesting stuff ratio does not favor interesting stuff), the wilderness held certain treasures. Notable features included, Mérida, a fairly well pr ... read more
Date: April 5th 2006
NYU's dime--which is to say my parents dime, translated through innumerable internal NYU accounts--took a bunch of us to one of Spain's least famed autonomías: Extremadura. Though its marginal status and name are somewhat justified (the land to interesting stuff ratio does not favor interesting stuff), the wilderness held certain treasures. Notable features included, Mérida, a fairly well pr ... read more
