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  1. Façade of the Monastery of El Escorial. The Spanish Golden Age (Spanish: Siglo de Oro [ˈsiɣlo ðe ˈoɾo], "Golden Century") was a period coinciding with the political rise of the Spanish Empire under the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and the Spanish Habsburgs when literature and the arts flourished in Spain. During this time, the greatest ...

  2. The Golden Age, or Siglo de Oro, of Spanish literature extended from the early 16th century to the late 17th century. Among the period’s most notable works is Cervantes’s Don Quixote. The Siglo de Oro is considered the high point in Spain’s literary history.

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  3. The Spanish Golden Age was a period coinciding with the political rise of the Spanish Empire under the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and the Spanish Habsburgs when literature and the arts flourished in Spain. During this time, the greatest patron of Spanish art and culture was King Philip II (1556–1598), but the period is also more broadly associated with the reigns of Isabella I, Ferdinand II ...

  4. The Spanish Golden Age. The Spanish Golden Age (1492-1659) saw the rise of famed figures such as Columbus, Velázquez, and Cervantes. The Spanish Golden Age lasted from 1492 to around 1659. It began with the end of the Reconquista, Christopher Columbus ’s first voyage to the Americas, and the publication of Gramática de la lengua castellana ...

  5. Early Modern Spanish (also called classical Spanish, Golden Age Spanish or Auric Spanish, especially in literary contexts) is the variant of Spanish used between the end of the fifteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century, marked by a series of phonological and grammatical changes that transformed Old Spanish into Modern Spanish.

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