Miguel de Cervantes led a life of adventure long before he wrote his masterpiece Don Quixote.
Whether it was his constant affairs or his financial scandals, few monarchs have fallen from grace quite like Juan Carlos I of Spain, the Two Faced-King.
The people of Spain adored their benevolent King Alfonso XIII...at first. However, as the years wore on, he couldn't hide the twisted man he was deep down.
The Rock of Gibraltar is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world.
When Ferdinand Magellan was cut down by natives in the Philippines, the lives of his ships and crew hung in the balance. Juan Sebastian Elcano stepped forward to take comman of the expedition.
After Christopher Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, many Spaniards decided to become conquistadors, dreaming of gold, power, and adventures. Conquistadors, which in Spanish means “the ones who conquer,” are remembered for their brutality...
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