168 October 2019

The First Roadway Studies Symposium will be held at the Madrid School of Civil Engineering on 9 October. The event will pay tribute to the distinguished engineer and humanist Eduardo Saavedra y Moragas and include an exhibition of archaeological objects from the Saavedra Collection in the Royal Academy of History’s Antiquities Division.

The symposium is organised by the Asociación Internacional de Caminería and the Technical University of Madrid’s School of Civil Engineering in conjunction with Fundación Juanelo Turriano. Expert lectures on roadway studies and the life and works of Eduardo Saavedra will be followed by a colloquium and the official opening of the exhibition, which will be on display through December 2019.

 The event will be open to the general public, cost-free.


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Koldo Lizarralde Elberdin, historian and ethnographer, passed away on 23 September.

Fellow of the Sociedad de Estudios Vascos-Eusko Ikaskunta from 1989 and the Asociación para la Conservación y Estudio de los Molinos (ACEM) since its 1998 founding date, he conducted any number of field studies and authored papers on historic and ethnographic subjects.

The book Du pont du Gard au viaduc de Millau. Les ponts protégés en Occitanie (Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles, DRAC Occitanie) is now available in our online library’s Duo Collection.

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The First Symposium on Ibero-American Art, Fortified seas, plans for defending the Spanish Caribbean after the capture of Havana will be held at the Complutense University of Madrid’s Faculty of Geography and History.

Under the leadership of Miguel Ángel Castillo, full professor of Art History at the UCM, and the coordination of Dr Nuria Hinarejos, it will review and debate the characteristics of the defensive system designed by the Spanish monarchy’s engineers for the Caribbean.

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