Impossible Europe

1. Parliaments started in Leon, Spain.

2. Christopher Columbus illegimate son Ferdinand of Cordoba tried to buy all of the books of Europe with his father’s money.

3. Amerigo Vespucci financed Columbus with Florentine Medici money.

4. The giant bell tower in Seville, Spain was a ‘copy’ of the Muslim minaret tower in Marrakesh, Morocco.

5. St. Paul’s mikveh/baptistry still exist in Corinth, Greece.

6. Vasco de Gama is buried in Lisbon, Portugal.

7. Eleusinian mysteries (in Eleusis, Greece) were the longest running ritual in the ancient world.

8. Hypostyle halls in Egypt become stoas in Greece and the Jewish second temple and basilicas in Rome and Christianity.

9. Marrakech still has snake charmers, spices, apothecaries, berber rugs, metal work, tanneries, and krakeb (cymbal) crafters.

10. The mosque.cathedral of Cordoba has arches made of alternating bricks and limestone.

11. Corinth today has a canal, but use to center the Greek/Roma world as a crucial portage shortcut across Greece.

12. Madrid has a dozen Christkindlmarkt’s, and Christmas runs until the end of the 12 Days of Christmas, January 6th.