Viva el Gran Re Don Fernando

On January the 2nd, 1492, the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castille accepted the total surrender of Boabdil the Moor, and entered Granada. The last bastion of the moors in Europe had fallen, and King Pelagius of Asturias’ dream was fulfilled. A unified Spain would go on to become a world hegemon, extending the Reconquista to Moroccan lands, and spreading Catholicism to the Americas and Asia. It is said that while fleeing the city with his mother Boabdil looked back from over