Author: Rafael

In the final of the sixth regional contest between secondary schools on the prevention of drug abuse in the leisure and free time of the young people of Extremadura, held in the House of Culture in Navalmoral de la Mata, the members of the jury decided to award first place to the fourth-year pupils of the Instituto Extremadura Secondary school in Montijo, while second place went to the Instituto Turgalium in Trujillo.

Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), born in Brussels, revolutionized not only our understanding of the human body but also served as the personal physician of Emperor Charles V, the most powerful man in the sixteenth century.

José Antonio Monago, President of the Government of Extremadura and Chairman of the Board of the European Academy of Yuste Foundation, has presided over the meeting of the Board of the European Academy of Yuste Foundation, during which it has been announced that twenty-two candidatures from seven countries in the European Union have been submitted for the Carlos V European Award.

The European Academy of Yuste Foundation has entered into partnership with the University of Salamanca at this exhibition, which can be viewed until 30 April at the Faculty of Translation and Documentation. It forms part of the 5th Symposium on Translation and Interpretation from and into German, an activity in which the Foundation is also involved.

The new book of the Italian influential intellectual, author of the best seller novel ‘The Name of the Rose’ and important treaties on semiotics, is a fiction story set in 1992 that makes a critique from inside of the journalism profession. Thanks to the ravings of a paranoid editor, Eco tells true histories but reconstructed from outlandish theories or strangely intertwined with others and that end up creating a new story.