Pérez Reverte working in naval history exhibition – The Universal

Through eleven ships, real or fictitious, exposure in Madrid entitled “ Men’s sea boats Legend ” restores over thirty centuries of maritime history in the West, from the ship Argo in Ancient Greece to the battleship Bismarck.
 

 The writer and academic Spanish Arturo Perez-Reverte , who chose these eleven ships, is curator of the exhibition, which opens on the 15th in the Naval Museum Madrid .
 

 

 Sea lover, Pérez-Reverte was “the very personal pleasure of choosing emblematic eleven ships, mixing reality and fiction, to mount a fluid and rigorous journey through thousands of years of naval culture.”
 

 

 Mixing fact and fiction is one of the “nicest” sample points. In the long history of this imaginary “both weigh a mythical boat like a real one.”
 

 

 In addition to the educational content is vital “to return to Spain its role in the sea, which was ours for many years,” he said.
 

 

 The exhibition will bring together from the mythical ship of the Argonauts of the Costa Concordia disaster (Italy). As La Numancia, one of the largest ships in the history of the Spanish Armada and The Nautilus, fruit of the imagination of Jules Verne.
 

 

 Other vessels like the Titanic, which sank in 1912, and the German battleship Bismark, ship most famous World War II was also exhibited.
 

 

 The exhibition also traces the history with nautical instruments, archaeological artifacts, ship models, paintings, objects of life on board, marine portraits or photographs.
 

 

 It introduces visitors to “a set of unique vessels and exceptional men who have left their mark on history by transforming her life into legend,” the Admiral José Antonio González Carrión, director of the Naval Museum.
 

 

 “It is a diverse, educational and rigorous exposition, addressed to the general public and more specialized visitors,” said González Carrión.
 

 

 With the ship Argo, the oldest and most famous boat around the Greek imagination that starred the epic journey of Jason and the Argonauts, this ride is initiated by the story that has a special role the Nao Victoria.
 

 

 In September 1522, 18 men of the expedition of 237, landed sick and exhausted in Sanlucar de Barrameda, in the city of Cadiz (South of Spain), having been around the world with the Victoria nao, a feat that the director of the Naval Museum opinion has not been valued enough.
 

 

 The Marquesa galley, with the young soldier Miguel de Cervantes on board; Hispaniola few flagship sailed the seas of literature under black flag through the pages of “Treasure Island” or the Bounty, the British navy, part of this tour naval history
 

 

 
 

 

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