At its height, the Spanish Empire was one of the most powerful and far-reaching empires in history, spanning continents and oceans. So why did it collapse? In this video, we uncover the key reasons ...

The Spanish Empire didn’t rise overnight it was forged through conquests, unification, and the age of exploration. Discover how Spain transformed from fragmented kingdoms into a global superpower that ...

Galeón Andalucía, a 16th-century Spanish galleon replica, arrives in Cork for European Maritime Day. Picture: Tadhg ...

For starters, for over two centuries, our island was an outpost of the vast Spanish empire when Spain was the only super-power on the planet. Those were the days of the annual Manila galleons ...

The Spanish first observed potatoes when they arrived in South America in 1532 to conquer the Incan Empire. Spuds were domesticated around 8,000 to 12,000 years ago in the Andes region of Peru and ...

The Spanish Grand Prix is set to move to Madrid next year, on a new 5.47km (3.399-mile) circuit around the Ifema exhibition ...

The same applies to some stretches of the Guadiana Bridge, altered in the Middle Ages and modern times. In the 17th century, during the Spanish Empire, two Christian monuments were built with Roman ...

The films follow the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow and take place in a world ruled by the British Empire, the East India Trading Company and the Spanish Empire, with pirates representing ...

The films follow the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow and take place in a world ruled by the British Empire, the East India Trading Company and the Spanish Empire, with pirates representing ...

McLaren driver Oscar Piastri has set the fastest time in Friday's second practice session at the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix ...

(Image credit: NavSource Online/Mike Baylon) The ship would be named after the famous general Miguel Malvar who had fought for Filipino independence against the forces of the Spanish Empire and ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?