Cities like Bogota and Santiago owe their iconic layouts to the Spanish colonial "Laws of the Indies." Dive into the history of these planning ordinances that prioritized plazas, gridded streets, and ...

Learn the characteristics of Spanish Colonial architecture, and get inspired to incorporate the look into your space.

The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

In New Orleans, we often wrap ourselves in the pride of the old: Old traditions, old recipes, old songs, old stories our mammas told us and old buildings. We love old buildings. But how old is old ...

Walter Benjamin's dictum that every work of art is also a work of barbarism comes to mind with "New World Orders," an exhibition of Spanish colonial casta paintings currently on display at the ...

There's no shortage of historic buildings in downtown Wilmington, some dating back to the 1700s. That's what made an ...

After Napoleon Bonaparte’s occupation of the Spanish peninsula in 1808, most of Spain's South American colonies removed themselves from European control and functioned as sovereign states.

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo worked with trap superstar Bad Bunny on his new album to inform fans about Puerto Rico’s history of ...

The Spanish Colonial School, 17th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction.