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In the Kingdom of Mediocrity...

... where the mediocre is the king... and the sublime, the villain.

It is practically mandatory to turn to the past to read a good book, listen to a brilliant song, watch a magnificent movie or admire an extraordinary work of art. And not because there are no excellent writers, composers and artists today, but because there is an effort to impose the poisonous, degrading and decadent “creativity” that floods the mass media, the internet and social networks, turning those ones into a kind of freaks and the true freaks into social references. Read More

The Northwest Passage

When he arrived in America, Christopher Columbus set out to find a communication route with the Indies faster than the circumnavigation of Africa. The discovery, in the middle of the ocean, of such a large area of land opened up an unsuspected horizon for Spanish colonization and, in a certain sense, changed the history of the world. From the point of view of the problem that Columbus had raised, there is no doubt that the existence of the American continent was an enormous hindrance. For this reason, almost the day after the arrival on American soil, attempts began to discover a sea passage between the Atlantic and the other great ocean, the Pacific, which was on the other side of the New World. Read More

Prometheus and the Legend of Fire

In the town of Mekone, gods and humans once met to decide once and for all which parts of the sacrificed animals should belong to one or the other. As it concerned the gods, and Zeus in particular, to choose first, Prometheus concocted a stratagem in favor of humans, even knowing that he would pay a high price for it… Read More

Christmas in the Algarve

Every corner of Portugal, no matter how small, is dressed in light and color between December and January to celebrate O Natal. They do it with real passion, as the streets show, being for a few days decorated for this reason. On this occasion we’ll move to the Algarve, where a multicolored universe awaits us… View Photo Gallery