The glorious eighteen
Ferdinand Magellan never wanted to circumnavigate the globe and never did. The voyage he began was completed 500 years ago by the Spaniard Juan Sebastián Elcano. Thanks to Providence, we reached the bay of San Lucar, and of the sixty men who made up the crew when we left the Moluccas, we were only eighteen, and most of them were ill." This is how Antonio Pigafetta, the chronicler of the first circumnavigation 500 years ago, described the arrival of the VICTORIA in the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda on 6 September 1522, right where the Guadalquivir flows into the Atlantic Ocean....
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