CRISTÓBAL COLÓN IN THE LIBRARY

Produccions Aïllades proposes a new installment of the series The monologues of History, this time centered on the figure of Christopher Columbus. El sábado, 1 from December, this production premieres at the Can Ventosa municipal library at 18:30 horas. Admission is free.

Based on a text of Carlos Garrido and inspired by researcher's theory NITO VERDERA On the Ibizan origin of Colón, Ramon Mayol, directs to Jabal, as the only actor on stage that, During 40 minutos, He tells us his critical situation after making his fourth and last trip to the Indies.

mar, mar. What do your Mercedes see? Horizonte, sky and sea. But I tell you that there are paths beyond, There are islands. Is the truth. And not just say it, but I demonstrated it.

Thus our protagonist begins to tell his peculiar story, after having shipwrecked in oblivion and suffered a stormy journey in that last expedition. In his first and most famous trip to the Indies, The discovery (1492-1493), Christopher Columbus did not reach beyond the Caribbean islands. Either in the second (1493-1496) And only in the third (1498-1500) Play American continental land, north of Venezuela. But it would really be in his fourth and last trip, that left Cádiz the 9 de mayo de 1502 And he returned to Sanlúcar de Barrameda two and a half years later, El 7 de noviembre de 1504, When Columbus tid off a part of the American continent: specific, The coast where Honduras are currently, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.

Had 51 years - an advanced age for the time -, He suffered from gout and arthritis and, What was worse to his eyes, had fallen out of favor to the Catholic Monarchs, that due to his mismanagement as a governor in American territory, they had stripped him of the privileges that were granted in the Capitulations of Santa Fe (1492). The marine expert, Despite all this, He faced the long journey again, this time aboard two caravels and two naos and with a crew of 144 people.

Upon his return, He was no longer the man who had been.

Now, We have the opportunity to meet in the first person how their last years were, What reflections was made, What were your conclusions ...

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