To commemorate the 500-year anniversary of Ponce de León’s 1513 Voyage to Florida, visitors will enter the La Florida exhibit, through the Everglades and journey through time beginning with a remarkable display of pre-Hispanic artifacts of Florida’s...
J. Michael Francis Professor and Chair Department of History University of North Florida
In 1823, the US Congress allocated $20,000 for the construction of a federal highway that was to extend from St. Augustine to Pensacola. The following...
In order to kick off the activities towards commemoration of the V centenary anniversary of Juan Ponce de Leon’s arrival to Florida’s shores, the Spain-Florida Foundation will host a private reception at the Coral Gables Museum, where the attendees...
Florida Living History, Inc. ( www.floridalivinghistory.org ), will present a new heritage Event – The Maritime World of Juan Ponce de León – on Saturday, January 14th, from 10AM to 4PM, at the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum (...
The Spain-Florida Foundation will sponsor the reception for a conference Friday 8th, 2012 at 8PM at the University of Miami. The public conference titled, “Florida at the Crossroads: Five Hundred Years of Encounters, Conflicts, and Exchanges” hosted...
The meeting highlighted the important commemorations of Juan Ponce de Leons landing on Florida shores in 1513, and the many activities planned for... Read more
The Spain – Florida Foundation 500 Years is proud to announce a new design for our website.
The new design will provide readers a space to... Read more
At the Florida-Spain Foundation 500yrs, we believe that our Hispanic identity will be only preserved if we are able to educate our future generations in the acknowledgement of the intrinsic value...
To mark in 2013 the 500 years anniversary of the Ponce de León´s arrival to Florida, the Spain-Florida Foundation 500yrs and other institutions like the Frost Art Museum are working on several...