The search for the waters of eternal life has fascinated figures from Gilgamesh to the conquistadors to Hollywood studio ...

Have you ever wondered why the Spanish language is usually called Castilian or 'castellano' in Spain and not Spanish? The ...

Juan Ponce de León did lay claim to La Florida for Ferdinand II of Aragon, but he never said a word about a fountain of youth. The secret to immortality certainly never helped him when he was ...

Sumptuary laws limited many of the clothing items that the lower and middle classes could wear. Politics often played an ...

As Charles’s empire grew, he reluctantly embraced the lifestyle of a wandering monarch. After the death of his grandfather Ferdinand II of Aragon in 1516, he was declared king of the many Spanish ...

In the 1492 Alhambra Decree, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, joint monarchs of Spain, ordered all 200,000 Jews on Spanish territory to either convert to Catholicism or to leave the ...