Before the 270th anniversary of the death of Blas de Lezo and Tribute Days on this event, Ramiro Ribas Narvaez, author of "The conspiracy of lies", made a commemorative sculptures that were presented by D. Javier Gomez de Olea at the ceremony of the Naval Museum and the Embassy [...]

Cartagena de Indias, September 9, 2011. Receive warm greetings from Cartagena de Indias, today last day of the conference in honor of Don Blas de Lezo. The morning began with a series of talks that ended at 12:30 noon. Among the speakers were: Jose Manuel Restrepo, Timothée de Saint-Albin, Paul [...]

Cartagena de Indias, September 8, 2011. Receive warm greetings. Today, second day of the conference in honor of Don Blas de Lezo. Conferences were started at 9am at the Naval Museum of the Caribbean and in the cloister of Santo Domingo (Spanish Cooperation Center). Then at 5 pm in [...]

Cartagena de Indias, September 7, 2011. Receive warm greetings from these latitudes. At 11 hours of the morning mass was observed in honor of the Basque sailor Don Blas de Lezo and Olavarrieta, officiated at the Cathedral of Cartagena by Archbishop Bishop Jorge Enrique Jiménez Carvajal. Among the [...]

I reproduce literally the press release of these days: On the occasion of 270 anniversary of the famous and heroic defense of Cartagena de Indias by Don Blas de Lezo and within the events organized to mark the Bicentennial of Independence Academy of the History of Cartagena and the Royal Academy Matritense of [...]