Weekend days are well-packed!! First stop of the day was the Archives of the Indies which houses the documents related to the Spanish empire, in particular, of the Americas and Philippines. The project to consolidate the archives, which were dispersed between several Spanish cities, was begun in 1785.
Pomegranates … wish they were ripe enough to eat!Admission is free. We really like that 🙂Safe boxes used to store money and valuables in the Middle Ages. Germany had a monopoly on producing them until the 18th century.A look at the complex mechanism.The building contains 80 million pages of documents and maps about the Spanish colonies.There’s 9 km of shelving that covers more than 300 years of information!Spain colonized all of Central and South America, and started into Asia: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Peru, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, the Phillippines.Letters from three kids to their dad.For many years, Seville was the only port licensed to trade with the colonies, hence its importance as the trading centre.Teaching moment. This was a bronze cannon that was made in Seville in 1616 and used on a galleon that sank near Cuba in 1622. Documents from the archives were used to locate the ship in 1975 and the cannon, along with crates of gold and silver coins were retrieved.
Our next stop was an exhibition called Tintin and the Moon, which uses science and comics to showcase man’s arrival on the moon. The Tintin portion focused on the process of drawing the comics.
Included in the exhibition was admission to Azul – exposure to blue, “the colour of Modernism” where we saw various pieces of art using the different types of blue. Here are our favourites.
Blue courtyard, painted in 1913 by Santiago RusinñolMemories, painted in the late 1800s by DionÃs VerdaguerAzul masterpiece! Just kidding – this is hanging about the bed in the master bedroom of our apartment 😛Check out the name of the bar!16 km for the day
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Looks very interesting. Started to collect records in 1785, so when will they be done?
Looks very interesting. Started to collect records in 1785, so when will they be done?