Aquí nació España : Mitos y realidad del nacimiento de una nación

On March 19, 1812, after the Constitution was approved, Deputy Agustín Argüelles addressed the people of Cádiz in the Plaza de San Antonio, declaring: "Spaniards, you now have a homeland!" Was Spain born here? Or was it in Covadonga, a thousand years earlier, as a plaque there states? Or when the Catholic Monarchs laid the foundations for dynastic unity between Aragon and Castile and incorporated the kingdoms of Granada and Navarre into their Crown? Or when the Bourbons established the legal and administrative unity of the Hispanic Monarchy? Only History can provide the answers to these questions. Those who delve into these pages will reflect on the identity of the nation we call Spain and will likely discover that it is much more than what so many biased views of its past tell us, views that only serve to obscure its true reality.