Translation, the language of Europe

This exhibition seeks to show how translation, both written and spoken (interpreting), has been a crucial means for communication in countless situations and moments throughout the history of Spain and Europe, thus enabling ideas to circulate between cultures and civilisations. Given the scant references to all of these translation activities in the conventional history books, those who practised them, and who still practise them, have often remained anonymous, but there is reliable evidence (some which we will highlight here) of their presence from a number of past sources, though it is generally scattered and fragmented.