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13 cze 2022 · The apparatus of colonial government in the Spanish Empire consisted of multiple levels, starting with the monarchy and Council of the Indies at the top and moving down to the viceroy, audiencias, mayors, and local councils.
7 lut 2024 · In this gallery of seven maps, we examine the vast overseas territories of the Spanish Empire from the late 15th century to the 19th century. The empire reached its height during the Age of Exploration...
Spanish colonial architecture represents Spanish colonial influence on the cities and towns of its former colonies, and is still seen in the architecture as well as in the city planning aspects of conserved present-day cities. These two visible aspects of the city are connected and complementary.
3 maj 2018 · Plazas are often important spatial representations of society and social hierarchy. The grid-plan plazas built in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean under the direction of the Spanish have been interpreted as architectural representations of colonial control and...
Structure and attention to detail characterized Spanish colonial government in the Western Hemi sphere. Responsibilities in the chain of command were clearly defined, but the system admitted many exceptions.
5 maj 2010 · They seem to have been painted with a Spanish audience in mind, perhaps as a present for the Spanish king himself. As the discussion on Moctezuma's palio has shown, the Kislak paintings tell the history of the conquest by closely following the Spanish accounts.
The tangible heritage includes universities, forts, cities, cathedrals, schools, hospitals, missions, government buildings and colonial residences, many of which still stand today. A number of present-day roads, canals, ports or bridges sit where Spanish engineers built them centuries ago.
