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Brussels, Belgium
Organisation: The Brussels Map Circle

Spanish Cartography – Cartography of Spain

  • 9.30 - Wouter Bracke (President of the BIMCC) - Introduction;
  • 9.45 - Luis Robles Macias (Independent Scholar) - Maps and globes to divide the world. The Junta of Badajoz-Elvas of 1524;
  • 10.30 - José M. Garcia Redondo (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas de España) - What was the first map printed in the New World? Cosmographic debates, problems of authorship and archive bluffs;
  • 11.15 - Break;
  • 11.45 - Piet Lombaerde (Universiteit Antwerpen) - Fortifications and Cartography in the Low Countries during the Spanish Occupation;
  • 12.30 - Carme Montaner (Grup d’Estudis d’Història de la Cartografia) - Maps of the Spanish civil war (1936-1939);
  • 13.15 - Closing remarks.