Day: October 31, 2005

The N340

The notoriously dangerous N340 highway takes survivors halfway round Spain. How come no one seems to have written a cultural history?

A Spanish codpiece

I just read Beth Marie Kosir’s interesting paper on the British codpiece and thought I’d have a quick look through some Spanish stuff. The Hispanic bragueta (I guess it comes from the French braguette, which is actually not a combination of baguette and bragas, “knickers”) seems to have been used first (in the late 15th…