Queen Isabella's confessor, the humanist educator, Roman Catholic primate of Spain, and grand inquisitor Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, blended Spanish patriotism, Renaissance scholarship, and a strictly orthodox Roman Catholicism in a form that was to characterize the church in the Hispanic lands of both the Old and the New World for centuries to come.
They confuse the authorities by using a coded language that blends English, Spanish and the Aztecs' ancient tongue of Nahuatl.
Perched on the westernmost tip of Texas in the Chihuahuan Desert, with Mexico and New Mexico for neighbors, El Paso blends Indian, Spanish and Western cultures in its art, music, architecture and cuisine.
Being a woman of brown skin, the image of "La Guadalupana", as she is sometimes called, is one that unifies and reconciles Mexico's history and blends its Spanish colonial and Aztec heritage.
The rebuilt city is an attractive blend of Spanish, American, and Moorish influences.
The people became largely mestizo, a blend of Spanish and Indian bloodlines.
But at its core has always been the Puerto Rican culture which is itself a blend of Spanish, African and indigenous Taino influences, among others.
The frescoes are an excellent example of the cultural blend of Spanish and Native American, using both Christian and indigenous symbolism.
Since the Middle Ages the instrumentation of ensembles devoted to this repertory -- notable for its blend of Spanish, Muslim and Jewish influences -- has changed considerably.
Sunday: The musical troupe Coco Merenson, performing a blend of Spanish and African music, led by the guitarist Juan (Coco) DeJesus.
