samedi 8 août 2015

Casa de Colon



Back in Las Palmas and return of the slow life. One day a restaurant, the next day a museum. The house of Christopher Columbus, for example, was not bad, with maps showing his 4 crossings of 1492-1504 (Caribbean and Central America). Still he has believed all his life that he was in Asia. Who eventually prove him wrong? Americo Vespucci apparently assumed the existence of a new continent, but did he give any evidence? Rather incomplete, this museum after all ...

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