On the afternoon of December 3, 2015, His Majesty King Felipe VI of Spain arrived at the Casa de América in Madrid to inaugurate the exhibition, Bernardo de Gálvez y la Presencia de España en México y Estados Unidos.

The exhibition, organized by the Instituto de Historia y Cultura Militar el Ejército de Tierra and the Casa de América, tells the story of General Bernardo de Gálvez one of Spain’s most important military figures. Gálvez  was also the colonial administrator in the 18th century who was the Colonial Governor of Louisiana and Cuba  and later became Viceroy of New Spain.

Bernardo de Gálvez y la Presencia de España en México y Estados Unidos will be open to the public until March 12, 2016 at Casa de América.