Chronicles & Travel Guide

July 30, 2026

Lucas Lunes

He brought down an Aztec empire and changed the course of world history. Yet in Medellín, the village where he was born and baptized, the church of his origins is crumbling stone by stone, lacking the budget to save it.

July 30, 2026

Lucas Lunes

Around the year 1500, a surveyor mapped out a city without walls on a misty plateau in Tenerife, featuring perfectly straight streets. This forgotten grid would become the blueprint for Havana, Cartagena, and San Juan, a century before France or England founded a single city across the Atlantic.

July 28, 2026

Lucas Lunes

Summer 1189: Flemish, English, and Frisian crusaders en route to the Holy Land stop in the Algarve and lend their fleet to King Sancho I to wrest Silves from the Almohads. Forty-four days of siege, a betrayal over the spoils, and a red city that would change hands twice in two years.

July 29, 2026

Lucas Lunes

A village of two hundred and fifty inhabitants, one hundred and sixty kilometers of dry-stone walls, and a grape variety that Tudor England drank by the barrel. In Banyalbufar, Malvasia had been extinct since 1891. It returned from a single vine forgotten in a garden.

August 1, 2026

Lucas Lunes

On August 23, 1815, off the coast of Funchal, a fallen emperor receives a barrel of Madeira he will never open. It will outlive him by more than a century, all the way to Churchill’s glass. Tracing the history of a wine that forgets nothing.

August 1, 2026

Lucas Lunes

Deux fois chassé par son roi, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar a fini seigneur de Valence, une cité qu'aucun Castillan n'était censé prendre. À Burgos, sur les traces d'un exilé devenu légende, entre la dalle de la cathédrale, le four à bois de Casa Ojeda et un mort qui, dit-on, gagnait encore ses batailles.

July 31, 2026

Lucas Lunes

En 1879, une enfant de huit ans découvre au plafond d'une grotte cantabrique des bisons peints il y a plus de quatorze mille ans. L'Europe savante crie au faux et brise son père. Il faudra vingt ans, et les grottes de Dordogne, pour lui rendre justice.

July 28, 2026

Lucas Lunes

In white-washed Évora, following in the footsteps of Geraldo the Fearless—the outlaw who stole an entire city in the dead of night in 1165 and sold it to his king, all while Templars from France were building Tomar. History, cunning, and the legend of the two-headed coat of arms.

July 28, 2026

Lucas Lunes

A five percent tax on pepper built the Jerónimos Monastery, and on the Belém Tower, a stone rhinoceros still guards the memory of the spice empire. A story told in three voices, from Vasco da Gama to the Dutch merchants who came to challenge the route to the Indies.

July 27, 2026

Lucas Lunes

On a barren hill above Huesca, the Battle of Alcoraz (1096) sealed the city's fall and gave birth to a legend: Saint George descending from the heavens for Aragon. The same saint that England would claim as its own two centuries later, under Edward III.

July 26, 2026

Lucas Lunes

On January 2, 1492, a sultan surrendered the keys to Granada without a fight. Between the Suspiro del Moro pass and the golden halls of the Alhambra, Lucas Lunes retraces the silent fall of the last Muslim kingdom in Spain, and the bitter legend that followed.

May 7, 2026

Lucas Lunes

From the beach of Argelès-sur-Mer, where a Retirada camp held one hundred thousand Spaniards in 1939, to the grave of Antonio Machado in Collioure: Lucas Lunes follows Spain in exile, between the sand, the barbed wire, and a final verse about the sun of childhood.

May 7, 2026

Lucas Lunes

A schist village in the Serra da Lousã, Talasnal emptied out under Salazar while the Portuguese shantytown of Champigny filled up. Lucas Lunes traces the thread of the exodus, the legend of the fountain's moura, and a rebirth of stone.

May 7, 2026

Lucas Lunes

In the Minho, the houses of emigrants tell the story of the exodus that emptied northern Portugal toward France. Between clandestine border crossings, the "widows of the living," and the legend of the Barcelos rooster, Lucas Lunes follows broken roots that have transformed into a dual belonging.

July 30, 2026

Lucas Lunes

On September 3, 1630, the Furnas volcano claimed one hundred and ninety-one lives. Today, that same scorching earth slowly cooks the most unlikely cozido in Portugal. A story of a lunch shared on the pulse of a dormant volcano.

July 27, 2026

Lucas Lunes

In an Asturian cider house, the art of escanciado—pouring cider from a meter high—hides a thousand years of Atlantic history, a sick queen, and a secret shared by Basques and Normans without them even knowing it.

July 26, 2026

Lucas Lunes

A Portuguese king paid the brightest minds in Europe to come and teach on a hill overlooking the Mondego. Three years later, he let the Inquisition arrest them in their rooms. The true story of Portugal’s most beautiful and briefest humanist endeavor.

July 25, 2026

Lucas Lunes

In Porto, a palace built by Portuguese merchants tells, in spite of itself, the story of an English treaty and a wine that changed the destiny of an entire city.

May 7, 2026

Lucas Lunes

The second part of Toledo. Lucas Lunes descends into the Judería and the Sinagoga del Tránsito, following in the footsteps of Samuel ha-Levi, treasurer to Peter the Cruel, up to the decree of 1492 that closed the skies over the city of the three cultures. Chapter 2 of 2.

May 7, 2026

Lucas Lunes

A small brick mosque, Visigothic columns, and a handful of translators from three faiths: in Toledo, Lucas Lunes traces the history of the city of three cultures, where Europe rediscovered Greek and Arab knowledge while the university was being born in Paris. Chapter 1 of 2.