It was the greatest maritime adventure of all time, a human epic that began with the Portuguese navigator Francisco de Magallanes and culminated with the Basque from Guetaria, Juan Sebastián Elcano, completing, in the nao Victoria ... the first circumnavigation of the Earth in history - Primus circumdedisti me ("you were the first to turn me around"), was the legend that the King granted to Elcano on his coat of arms, along with the spices brought from the East Indies.

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