Quotes About Castile

The melon of Castile is for self abuse. The melon of Valencia for eating.

Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.

Martin Luther was excommunicated in the year Cortés first occupied Tenochtitlán, yet nascent Protestantism and its accompanying debate about religious doctrine would find no receptive audience back in contemporary Castile.

Castile's regent, Cardinal Ximenes de Cisneiros, had just died on his way to assist the inexperienced King Charles

punishment of Ferdinand Magellan's crime of moving to Castile.

the idea of a crusade against social modernity was to be found not only in the market towns of north-central Castile, or in the remote rural north (most obviously among the theocratic and pugnacious Carlists of Navarre) but also in larger urban centres and the big cities, where Catholic youth became activists in the new mass organizations of the right.

El ciego sol, la sed y la fatiga... Por la terrible estepa castellana, al destierro, con doce de los suyos (polvo sudor y hierro), el Cid cabalga.