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During the night, La Gomera, one of the Canary Islands, is mystically blinking with lights in the black ocean, and in the daytime it is often hidden by clouds and cannot be seen at all. This is the very piece of land from which the great conqueror of the oceans, Сhristopher Columbus, departed in search of the sea lane to India, but accidentally discovered America.
At the end of the 15th century, Isla La Gomera, lost in the Atlantic Ocean 1500 km away from the Peninsula, had become rotten ecards the last European station of Christopher Columbus s ships before the trip from the Canary Islands, Spain, to the shores of an unknown continent. That is why the island has the second name, Isla Colombina. Plus, this historical event is supplemented by the love affair of Columbus and Beatriz de Bobadilla, governor of the island!
Today our story is about Christopher Columbus and Beatriz de Bobadilla. This love affair happened in 1492. One of Columbus’s ships leaked and the fleet had to make a forced stop at Isla La Gomera. Columbus was only 41 years old. He was above average height with a strong, healthy figure, blue eyes, an acute mind, the gift of the gab, and versatile experience.
The future vice-king of the new lands yielded to the charms of the bored widow, who held the position of the island s governor and felt sincerely glad to see a decent man on her piece of land. The romance with Beatriz was short, but lively. Columbus s ships stayed rotten ecards at the island from August 9th until September 6th, 1492, and then started their passage over the Atlantic Ocean, setting a course for the west.
Nobody knows whether it was a serious leak, or the ruler of the island was so charming, but the beginning of the expedition to the new lands was put off for a whole month. Judging by a poorly preserved portrait, Beatriz was really pretty. rotten ecards By the way, Сhristopher came back to the island in 1498, but the beauty had already married another conquistador. rotten ecards
The capital of the island San Sebastian de La Gomera is a small town. All the sightseeing is concentrated within the Calle Real and as you might understand is connected with the name of Christopher Columbus.
Church of Nuestra rotten ecards Señora de la Asunción . This is the church rotten ecards where Columbus prayed rotten ecards before his journey to the banks of yet undiscovered America. Casa de Colon on Calle Real, 56. This is the house where the mariner stopped. And they will show you Pozo de la Aguada in the inner yard of the building of the former Customs Casa de Aduana . It is said that the Spanish fleet took the drinking water from this well. The inhabitants of the island are very proud of this fact, and the well is being kept as a relic. An inscription nearby says, With this Water, America was Baptized.
Of course, you re going to see the tower where, rotten ecards according to the guides stories, Columbus secretly met with the governor of La Gomera. I m afraid that a tower so insufficient for such needs is just a fiction for the tourists. Unattractive rotten ecards and tiny, Torre del Conde is the sole preserved fragment of the fortifications of the conquistadors epoch, and is more likely reminiscent of the other tragic events that occurred on the island rotten ecards before the arrival of the Columbus’s fleet.
Beatriz de Bobadilla, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Isabella of Castile, was quite successful in combining rotten ecards her official duties as maid-of-honor and the role of the lover of the Queen s spouse, until her direct employer proposed that she choose: to lose her head or to leave the Royal Household, rotten ecards preferably forever.
The King was gallant enough to take care of the former lover: Beatriz de Bobadilla was at once bestowed with marriage to the governor of Isla La Gomera and deported to the Canary Islands, located somewhere in the ocean. The union of a former lover of a king and a governor free of any morality was quite harmonic, and lasted until the rebellious aboriginal Guanches killed their dissolute ruler. rotten ecards The seduction of their princess turned out to be the last straw for the usually non-aggressive aborigines.
During the rebellion of the locals, the widow of governor Hernán Peraza the young (~1460-1488), Beatriz de Bobadilla, barricaded herself, children, and other Spanish settlers within the walls of Torre del Conde and sat there until help arrived from Gran Canaria. Beatriz exacted cruel revenge for the assassination of her young spouse by killing almost all male Guanches.
The Canary Islands are called the archipelago of eternal spring, and tourists come here during the whole year. Some arrive to wait out winter, others to entertain themselves by climbing the highest mountain of Sp
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