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The 1562 Map of America. Created by Diego Gutiérrez. The late fifteenth-century landfall by Christopher Columbus on the island of Guanahani, in the Bahamas, forced open the gates to a whole new world for the Spanish and other European explorers.
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 and included regions in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific.
These lovely towns in Spain can be found throughout the autonomous communities of the Iberian Peninsula as well as the Canary and Balearic Islands. In this article, you’ll find villages in northern Spain, the south of Spain, on the coast, in the mountains, and more.
2 sie 2022 · A map illustrating Spain’s drive to expand its empire following the 1492 Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula and Columbus's discovery of America. Inspired by tales of land and instant riches, thousands flocked to the New World with hopes for wealth and status.
Today, across Spanish America, the plaza–and–grid still remains in the huge cities of Lima and Mexico City as well as in small towns and villages, and examples of the grid planned city can be seen in many of the maps in the Cities section of Vistas, as well as in the 1562 "Foundational plan of San Juan de la Frontera," in the Vistas gallery.
For the early European presence in North America, the term "settlement" includes coastal forts, trading posts, mining centers, shipping stations, farming villages, occasional towns, and a few big colonial cities. And for the Spanish, French, and Russians, "settlement" also includes Indian missions.
The region known as Hispanic America (Spanish: Hispanoamérica or América Hispana) and historically as Spanish America (América Española) is all the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas.
