Quotes About Spain

when King Manuel wished to take the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella as his wife

originally published in eight volumes in Valladolid, Spain, in 1545

With modifications, this calendar was adopted by Christian churches around the world, including those in Spain.

but he was concerned that Spain would send duplicate expeditions as soon as his was out of sight of land

King Charles dispatched a follow-up expedition to the Spice Islands only six years after Magellan's departure from Spain.

Dee warned "neither France, Denmark, Scotland, Spain, nor any other country can have such liberty for invasion

if they continued with their plan to sail for Spain; they would offend God, King Manuel

Leonor, the twenty-year-old sister of King Charles of Spain.

the strait, he argued, they should sail back to Spain to assemble a better-equipped fleet.

the largest city in Andalusia, in southwestern Spain. Ruy Faleiro, and possibly Francisco, joined him

but in any event his geographical legerdemain alleviated Spain's principal anxiety:

only 67 ships and ten thousand men survived, and many of those survivors perished as they tried to return to Spain.

Elizabeth, and especially Francis Drake, whom Mendoza recognized as the chief threat to Spain's imperial ambitions.

Las nuevas naciones hispanoamericanas, además, confundieron la política con la historia. Para fortalecer su ruptura política con España fueron a buscar su identidad histórica fuera del orbe hispánico, en las raíces indígenas, en la autoctonía criolla y en la invención de un pasado clásico americano. Tuvieron con su raíz española un pleito de negaciones simbólicas que nos confunde todavía.

In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

We are European citizens, as we are European citizens it means what we want to do is exactly like Scotland or Quebec. The difference is that the United Kingdom and Canada they are democratic countries. Spain today is not a democracy and this is the main problem.

I want to reaffirm, as king, my faith in the unity of Spain.

I went to Spain with my brother when I was about 17. We stayed near Barcelona and it was terrible. There were floods and I ended up missing my flight home.

When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.

There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference.

Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.

I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.

Ernest Hemingway, also in Spain at the time, provides an illuminating contrast to Orwell. He was as politically naive as Orwell was observant, in part because his macho posing got in the way of seeing accurately.