The Council of Trent: nothing unusual, nothing profane, nothing dishonest. When Lutheranism became a reality, the Catholic Church had to react. Pope Paul III called the Council of Trent in 1543 supported by the Emperor Charles V of Germany, I of Spain. In its XXV session, the last one held, images were analyzed and also…
Enma López, Madrid City Councillor: “I love walking around Madrid” With this piece, we open a new section in our website. Usually, when we go abroad, we consult what visitors think about the place we are about to visit. That’s why we thought: What if we ask people we admire what do they like the…
In this article, we are going to discuss the many beauties of a lovely shire in the North-West of Spain: El Bierzo. There are many reasons to consider El Bierzo a very nice place to visit; its rooted history or its natural sites, for instance, but maybe the main one is that the good people…
Egeria: the traveller from El Bierzo you’d love to meet Recently, Spanish journal El País published an article about one of the firsts travel writers who has ever existed: Egeria. She was a peregrine and travelled most of the known world to Jerusalem describing what she saw, where she was comfortable or rather where she…