These houses are very common around Castile
This is a house from a poor neighborhood who survived the earthquake/tsunami, do they look like that in spain?
>>216593223So it doesn't anymore?
>>216593223We missed a lot of kino because of war/natural disasters
>>216593296In Galicia and Asturias mostly, I talked about the houses of the portrait
>>216593223there are many african slaves in that paintingwhy are so many people dressed in black?
>>216593797Lisbon, Valladolid and Sevilla were the main economic centers of Europe during late XV and XVI century through the Portuguese trade in slaves, spices, silk, gold, silver and American products, and the buying/selling of Spanish monarchy bonds by Genoese, German, Portuguese and Flemish bankers in exchange of loans to the Habsbourgs. Cervantes and other authors of the time pointed out that cities like Seville were full of black slave plantations.
>>216593797lisbon was about 10% black in the 16th and 17th century
>>216594125It is funny that authorities preferred to bring black slaves instead of European ones but did not hesitated to send some enslaved Galicians to work in sugar plantations in the Caribbean.
