Madrid, Spain

Spanish playwright, civil engineer, mathematician, and statesman who was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature for his role in reviving Spanish drama

Spanish Nobel laureate novelist, poet, and essayist known for his intense prose and challenging vision of human vulnerability

Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist who pioneered modern neuroscience and won the Nobel Prize for his work on the nervous system's structure

Spanish Romantic poet who wrote the beloved collection 'Rimas y leyendas' and ranks among Spain's most important literary figures after Cervantes

Leading Spanish Baroque painter in the court of King Philip IV and a master of the Spanish Golden Age, considered one of the greatest artists in Western art history

King of Spain who championed enlightened absolutism and sweeping reforms to modernize his empire, having gained valuable experience as a ruler in Italy

King of Spain from 1665 to 1700, Charles II was the last Habsburg monarch whose death without children sparked the War of the Spanish Succession

Irish-born British figurative painter known for raw, unsettling imagery focusing on the human form and figures isolated in geometrical structures

Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate, and one of the foremost dramatists of the 20th century

Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer, known as the first "Protector of the Indians" and for documenting colonial atrocities against Indigenous peoples