Gypsy Trails

Why did this important meeting take place in Valladolid? Because this is where the Spanish government, encouraged by the royal family, has opened the Indo-Spanish centre or Casa de India. The idea was to spread out across Spain—the various points of contact with India. The Indian embassy performs this function in Madrid. Casa de Asia or the Asian Centre in Barcelona also has a strong Indian chapter. It was a small hamlet in the middle-ages. Fernando of Aragon and Isabel of Castile were secretly married here. This pair played the key role in terminating the 800-year-old Muslim rule in the Iberian peninsula.