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Gazpacho
This is one of Spain’s quintessential summertime dishes. Refreshing and restorative, it’s the perfect answer to those draining hot estival days. Its evolution has...

Spanish History 101, EP 37: Isabel II (1833-1868)
We are now looking at the middle of the 19th Century when Spain slowly but fairly steadily begins to evolve into a a constitutional...

FILM REVIEW: Hispanoamerica
I’ve never done a film review to date, but this time we decided to look at a recent documentary that has come out featuring...

The Beata Dolores: the Inquisition’s true last victim
Legend often had it that the last victim of the Inquisition was a teacher named Cayetano Ripoll, but technically that wasn’t true. It was...

The Last Victim of the Inquisition! Sort of!
A schoolmaster in Valencia, Spain, named Cayetano Ripoll is often cited as the last reported victim of the Spanish Inquisition when he was hanged...

Spanish History 101, EP. 36. Fernando VII
The end of the Spanish War of Independence resulted in the departure of Napoleon’s troops and the return of Fernando VII as king, one...