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February 21, 2017
History Article 10732
QTV's documentary chronicles a journey...
February 21, 2017
By: O. J. Cunningham
El Galeón Andalucía -- replica 16th-century Spanish galleon that took part in the Tall Ships Challenge tour of the Great Lakes during the summer
Sailing into the Past
Traveling Aboard El Galeón
& The Tall Ship Celebration
Thursday, March 9, 2017
8:00pm
Delta College QTV will premiere their new local documentary "Sailing
into the Past - Travels Aboard El Galeón Andalucía and the Tall Ship
Celebration," Thursday, March 9, 2017 at 8:00 pm.
The documentary takes
you aboard El Galeón Andalucía, the replica 16th-century Spanish galleon
that took part in the Tall Ships Challenge tour of the Great Lakes during the
summer (which included Bay City as one of the port city stops) on July 14
16, 2016.
The 170 foot El Galeón Andalucía is the only Spanish Galleon style ship
sailing the world today. Galleonstyle ships were used to discover and then
establish trade routes between Spain, America and the Philippines islands
between the 16th and 18th centuries, and formed what was then called the
"Fleet of the Indies".
For three centuries, Spanish galleons crossed back
and forth over the Atlantic Ocean, sailed around the Caribbean Sea and the
American coasts, and also covered the Pacific route as well. Built by the
Nao Victoria Foundation in 2009, El Galeón Andalucía came to the United
States from Seville, Spain in 2013 to celebrate Florida'
s 500th birthday and
has been traveling around the country ever since.
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