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Logs & Diaries. Today, at 84, she knows as much about the Archives as anyone alive. Week after week, supported by her ebony cane, she still makes her way from the Hotel Cristina to the hushed chambers of the Casa de la Lonja. There, head bent low, she still pores over the endless viceroys' reports, ships' logs and diaries. But in all the decades she has been in Seville, her chief target has never changed: today, she is the world's leading expert on Columbus' crew...
...months, the Spanish Cortes (parliament) met, for the first time in history it did not sit in the traditional semicircle, divided physically as well as spiritually into Left. Centre and Right, but in an ordinary auditorium set up on the trading floor of Valencia's silk exchange, the Lonja de la Seda...
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