Need help: What are 6 things that prove Columbus was a Spaniard?

[SuperGroove]

Title says it all.

 

[jmcoreymv]

He was financed by Queen Isabella and Ferdinand of Castille and Aragon

 

[Napalm381]

He spoke Spanish.

 

[Dibs]

Are you talking about Christopher Columbus?

If so, Columbus was Italian, not Spanish. The King and Queen of Spain financed the whole voyage.

 

[SuperGroove]

Uh...I thought he was a Spaniard? he spoke spanish...

 

[dennilfloss]

He wasn't a Spaniard. He was Genoese.

basic info

hundreds of articles to peruse

A Horse With No Name (America)

 

[Mday]

cc was born in italy.

 

[AndrewR]

Dibs beat me to it. Columbus was from Genoa, if I remember correctly (Genova, in Italian), but could not find financing in Italy so he went to Spain. Yes, it is Genoa because I remember the statue they have in his honor there though there is also one prominently displayed in Barcelona.

 

[AndrewR]

Heh -- while I attempt to load the site with this broadband 7Kbps connection (I'm not kidding, unfortunately), three other people respond.