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Adolfo SuárezMore informationAn essential figure of the Spanish Transition, he was born in Cebreros (Avila) in 1932 and died in Madrid in 2014.In 1976 he was appointed President of the Government by Juan Carlos I, beginning a period...
Antonio Machado RuizMore informationOn July 26, 1875, the city of Seville saw the birth of Antonio Cipriano José María Machado Ruíz, one of the most representative poets and at the same time the youngest of the Generation of '98, into a...
Daniel ZuloagaMore informationThe great innovator of ceramics in Spain was born in Madrid in 1852 and died in Segovia in 1921. Trained in the Parisian schools with the great French artists, he was called by Alfonso XII to modernize...
El CidMore informationRodrigo Díaz de Vivar, popularly known as El Cid Campeador, was a legendary Burgos hero. A man of arms, the legendary knight provided aid for years to the Castilian and Leonese kings at the head of his...
Fray Luis de LeónMore informationTheologian and unique scholar of the Spanish Golden Age, he was born in Belmonte in 1527 and died in Madrigal de las Altas Torres in 1591. Religious and Renaissance humanist, linked to the school of Salamanca,...
Isabella the CatholicMore informationOne of the most outstanding women in the history of Spain. Isabella the Catholic, born in Madrigal de las Altas Torres in 1451 and died in Medina del Campo in 1504, was Queen of Castile and consort of...
María de MolinaMore informationKey figure in the history of the kingdom of Castile and León, daughter of the infante Alfonso de Molina, brother of King Fernando III, granddaughter of Alfonso IX of Leon and Queen Berenguela, she was...
Miguel de UnamunoMore informationEssential writer, poet and philosopher born in Bilbao in 1864 but strongly linked to Salamanca, where he died in 1936, and of whose University he was professor of Greek Language and Literature, as well...
Miguel Delibes SetiénMore informationThe most universal and versatile Valladolid born in 1920, he is one of the main references of Spanish literature of the second half of the 20th century and until his death in 2010.Graduate in Commerce,...
Saint Dominic de GuzmánMore informationBorn in the Burgos town of Caleruega in 1170 into a family related to the kings of Castile, Leon, Aragon, Navarra and Portugal, at the early age of six he already expressed his clear religious vocation...
Saint John of the CrossMore informationPriest, writer and mystical poet of the Renaissance, he was born in the Avila city of Fontiveros in 1542 and died in Úbeda in 1591. As a religious he was a reformer of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel,...
Saint Teresa of ÁvilaMore informationBorn in Avila in 1515 and always linked to this city deeply impregnated by the figure of , is considered the summit figure of female religious writing in the history of Spain. Not only did she stand out...
Santiago Martín Sánchez (El Viti)More informationEl Viti, a nickname that affectionately comes from the town of Vitigudino in Salamanca where he was born, is a living legend of bullfighting.His serious and solemn, but affable appearance, together with...
Theodosius the GreatMore informationBorn in Roman Hispania into a military family in 347 AD, he soon made a name for himself alongside his father, a high-ranking Roman general, in the world of arms. After the fall from grace of his father,...