Valladolid

He returned to Spain in 1504, and died two years later.

His body was buried at Valladolid, but was afterwards carried across the ocean and interred in the cathedral of Santo Domingo on the island of Haiti.

When that island was ceded by the Spaniards to France, the remains of the great navigator were removed to Havana, and there they rested until after the war between the United States and Spain, when they were taken back to Spain.

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So this is a genuine store.

Like, it was in Valladolid in northwest Spain.

Ooh.

Did it have a name, a name that is an IKEA product that's very offensive in Spanish?

Do you remember that as soon as he arrived in Madrid...

It's all vanity, right? As soon as he arrived in Madrid and the press started beating him, In Valladolid they did it too, maybe you don't remember.

And also when the opposition was there, they did it.

And to us, that is, that nothing happens, and to everyone.

the Pilar neighborhood, two rooms, for 1,300 euros.

I asked him about the situation in... en las grandes ciudades españolas.

Digo, me da igual Madrid, que Málaga, que en Valladolid ya cuesta encontrar una habitación por menos de 500, 400 euros en una zona que esté medianamente bien.

Y yo le decía, digo, ha venido mucha gente, A lot of illegal people have come and are fighting with you.

As we say and also, uh, in Latino America, no se dice Barcelona, se dice Barcelona, no? Right.

Bilbao, Valencia, Santander, Vigo, Valladolid, all amazing places where you can come join us on the 11th of September for our open house.

It's gonna be awesome.

You are gonna have all kinds of things going on.

No, es que me cuesta decir Vigo.

Vigo y Valladolid.

Sorry.

Es que yo digo la uve [laughs].

At one point, further westward voyages from Spain were even halted until a clear decision could be reached.

There was a famous debate in the university city of Valladolid in 1550 in which the question, if you oversimplify, was, were the Indians human? From there, relentless Spanish logic took over.

If they were human, then they were Spanish, because they lived in territories conquered by Spain.

If they were Spanish, then they were Spanish citizens, and they had the rights of Spanish citizens, not least the right not to be expropriated and not to be enslaved.