Articles by Hispanismo Chile

We are a group that promotes our cultural roots based on the Hispanic origin of our history as a country. We recognise the importance of the historical processes that took place on the Iberian Peninsula from the reunification of the kingdoms of Spain, the reconquest by the Catholic Monarchs, the arrival of Columbus in America, the discovery and founding of Chile in 1535, to the present day.

1690 The excellent Baroque painter Juan de Valdés Leal, nemesis of Murillo and famous for his "Vanitas" in the Hospital de la Caridad, dies in Sevilla.
1940 At dawn, Lluís Company y Jover, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, is shot by a picket of soldiers at Montjuic Castle for the crime of military rebellion.

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