"Fuimos muy peores en vicios"

En la Antigüedad, Gibraltar fue tomado como faro natural y bisagra entre los dos grandes mares. Desde la fundación de su ciudad, hace catorce siglos, por su dominio se han enfrentado las potencias de cada época. Hace trescientos años que la bandera britán

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

Los autores ponen foco sobre dos hechos que cambiaron la vida económica de la Vega de Granada en 1874, en que llegó a Granada el ferrocarril Bobadilla-Granada, construico por la Compañía de Ferrocarril de Córdoba a Málaga, luego Compañía de Ferrocarriles Andaluces, y en 1882, en que comenzó a producir azúcar el Ingenio de San Juan, primera fábrica de azúcar de remolacha de España. Un ferrocarril de este a oeste de la Vega que enlazaba con toda la red de ferrocarriles y una gran industria con grandes efectos multiplicadores que necesitaba de este ferrocarrill para movilizar...

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