Iberia Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
peninsula located in the extreme southwest of Europe
About Iberia
Separated fromFranceby thePyreneesmountains, its history has frequently taken a different path from the rest of Europe, giving the region a separate identity. TheBasquepeople settled here millennia ago, retaining their culture to this day. TheRoman Empireexpanded into it in the 3rd century BCE, before being supplanted by theVisigothsin the 5th century. The peninsula again took on a non-European character when theIslamicBerber and Arabic Moorstook overin the 8th century, ruling parts of it until the 15th century. As Christian rule gradually took back the peninsula from the Moors, its people then looked outward; Portugal sponsored theCape Routeexpeditions, and Spain thevoyages of ColumbusandMagellan-Elcano circumnavigation. The Tordesillas treaty divided the new lands between Spain and Por
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