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Christopher Columbus, Italian Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish Cristóbal Colón, (born between August 26 and October 31?, 1451, Genoa [Italy]—died May 20, 1506, Valladolid, Spain), master navigator and admiral whose four transatlantic voyages (1492–93, 1493–96, 1498–1500, and 1502–04) opened the way for European exploration, exploitation, and colonization of the Americas. He has long been called the “discoverer” of the New World, although Vikings such as Leif Eriksson had visited North America five centuries earlier. Columbus made his transatlantic voyages under the sponsorship of Ferdinand II and Isabella I, the Catholic Monarchs of Aragon, Castile, and Leon in Spain. Quite possibly her most impactful accomplishment on the world, Queen Isabella funded Christopher Columbus’ mission to sail to India by heading west. The Spanish Queen agreed to pay a sum of money as a concession from monarch to subject. Columbus would set sail on his famous voyage on August 3, 1492 and as history would show, he did not reach his intended destination but instead discovered the Americas. After his return to Spain, Columbus was greeted with a hero’s welcome and started a Golden Age of exploration and colonization, which brought even more fame and fortune to Queen Isabella I.

Isabella, her mother and her younger brother moved to the castle of Arevalo. Here they lived a frugal life as they were kept short of funds by the King. 1457 (during) Isabella and her brother, Alfonso, were summoned to court in Segovia.

To the north of the mountains of Avila extends a vast cereal region, known as La Moraña, its name probably derives from Mauritania or land of Moors, which reminds us of its history and the origin of the main peoples that make up it. Arévalo is the capital of this penillanura. Perched on the tongue that form the Arevalillo and Adaja rivers (the first comes to die the second under the watchful eye of the castle).

The moment of maximum splendor of the village is inscribed in the Middle Ages, after the repopulation promoted by Alfonso

VI. The coexistence of Christian, Muslim and Hebrew cultures and in it enabled the development of one of the most important Jewish quarters in Castile. Five lineages would be divided into the city by administering it and thus giving the name by which Arévalo, the "city of the five lineages" is also known. Already in the fifteenth century the villa would acquire extraordinary importance thanks to the frequent stays of the court in the Royal Palace and the celebration of Cortes. The village was passed by the young Princess Elizabeth of Castile or her grandson the infante Fernando. Today Arévalo has 7,800 census inhabitants. The main economic support revolves around commercial activity at the regional level, services and an expanding industrial sector. Located 50 kilometers from Avila, 77 kilometers from Valladolid and 125 kilometers from Madrid, the villa is an attractive tourist destination both monumental, natural and gastronomic.

It was Arévalo another of the Castilian villas where, after the reconquest of Alfonso VI, various religious ethnicities linked to each other coexisted thanks to

trade.