Cristoforo Colombo
There is no unanimity among historians and researchers on the origins of Christopher Columbus , partly by confusion and loss of documentation regarding their origins and ancestry, multiple theories have emerged the birthplace of Colon .
largely supported the thesis suggests that C ristoforo Colombo was born about the year 1451 in Savona in the republic of Genoa .
Interested in geography, read maps and learned treaties that circulated in his day. I wanted to reach the Eastern ndias , land that was supposed to find great riches.
Christopher Columbus set sail from the port of Palos (Spain) an August 3, 1492, and that same year October 12, when the crew was and concerned about the long journey without getting anywhere, the boy Rodrigo de Triana gave the famous cry: "Land ho!" . They had come to an island Guanahani , named San Salvador in the archipelago of the Bahamas .
died a May 20, 1506 in Valladolid Spain . His body was treated with a process called fleshing , through which all the meat off the bones. He was buried initially in Valladolid, and later his remains were transferred to the monastery of La Cartuja, in Seville. His remains were transferred last to the cathedral of Seville where they lay on a sumptuous catafalque.
Sources:
Wikipedia
Photograph of the Tomb :
A Place in the World
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