Hispanic Day

[scruffy1]

Tomorrow is Hispanic Day a national holiday honoring CC and discovery of the Americas. What's open and what's shut?

 

[mspath]

Unfortunately almost everything will be shut! See more here--
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/spain/hispanic-day

PS. In NYC it is an Italian-American holiday since CC was from Genoa. There is always a big marching parade followed by sales of winter clothing.

 

[Castilian]

Museums managed by the Education, Culture and Sports ministry are opened and free on Oct. 12

 

[annakappa]

Although CC came to Costa Rica ( or rather, he mored just offshore), we call the day El Día de las Culturas.

 

[annakappa]

Here in Costa Rica, where CC landed in 1492 on an offshore island, we call it El Día de las Culturas.

 

[annakappa]

Unfortunately almost everything will be shut! See more here--
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/spain/hispanic-day

PS. In NYC it is an Italian-American holiday since CC was from Genoa. There is always a big marching parade followed by sales of winter clothing.

I had always assumed that CC was born in Genova, Italy, HOWEVER, when we were walking the Camino Espiritual ( alternative longer route on the Portuguese), we arrived in this delightful village called Combarro, where the village was all decked out for the feast celebrating CC, who, according to them, was born there!
I had never heard of that one!

 

[mspath]

What fun! Even as a baby he was "presumed" to be a cosmopolitan explorer.

 

[Castilian]

Here in Costa Rica, where CC landed in 1492

He arrived to nowadays Costa Rica in 1502; didn't he?

I had always assumed that CC was born in Genova, Italy, HOWEVER, when we were walking the Camino Espiritual ( alternative longer route on the Portuguese), we arrived in this delightful village called Combarro, where the village was all decked out for the feast celebrating CC, who, according to them, was born there!
I had never heard of that one!

The birthplace of Colón isn't known for sure. Genova (Genoa in English) is the most widely accepted birthplace of Colón but there are many alternative theories. For a list of them, take a look at http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristóbal_Colón#Origen

 

[Anemone del Camino]

One of my summer reads was Codex 632, a Portuguese novel on the CC conspiracy, looking at who he may have really been. If memory serves me right this novel even suggests he may have been Jewish from Portugal, which would have explained some strange routes he proposed to get to the Americas to ensure the Portuguese would arrive to the Americas earlier. Or something like that. A fun, light summer read.

 

[annakappa]

He arrived to nowadays Costa Rica in 1502; didn't he?

Oops!