A yellowed newspaper clipping, framed on the wall of a far corner,
recounts the bar’s origins and early years. It started out in 1929, the year
Seville hosted a gala exposition celebrating the city’s links to Spanish
America, which date back to Columbus and Spain’s pursuit of empire. The
high-ceilinged space initially operated as a textile store.
Prose, in its entirety, is available in the printed version of the current issue.
Bio:
W. George Lovell is Professor of Geography at Queen’s University and Visiting Professor in Latin American History at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Spain. His latest book, Death in the Snow: Pedro de Alvarado and the Illusive Conquest of Peru (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022), the fruit of years of research at the Archive of the Indies in Seville, has recently appeared in a Spanish-language edition.