The city of Guayaquil evoked this Sunday the “universal” legacy of the first circumnavigation of the Earth in a cultural day organized by the Spanish Embassy in Ecuador on the occasion of the V Centenary of that epic and the arrival of the Juan Sebastián Elcano School Ship to this port .
“The feat that would surpass many of its protagonists 500 years ago, becoming an epic of as important as the arrival of man on the Moon in 1969, because it had an enormous historical, scientific, economic and cultural impact,” said the Spanish ambassador in Ecuador, Carlos Abella and de Arístegui.
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