A yellowed newspaper clipping, framed on the wall of a far corner,
recounts the bar鈥檚 origins and early years. It started out in 1929, the year
Seville hosted a gala exposition celebrating the city鈥檚 links to Spanish
America, which date back to Columbus and Spain鈥檚 pursuit of empire. The
high-ceilinged space initially operated as a textile store.
Prose, in its entirety, is available in the printed version of the current issue.
Bio:
W. George Lovell is Professor of Geography at 黑料吃瓜资源 and Visiting Professor in Latin American History at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Spain. His latest book, Death in the Snow: Pedro de Alvarado and the Illusive Conquest of Peru (McGill-黑料吃瓜资源 Press, 2022), the fruit of years of research at the Archive of the Indies in Seville, has recently appeared in a Spanish-language edition.