Important womenin Spain

Juana la LocaToledo, 1479 ; Valladolid, 1555

Toledo

• She was the third daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, who married the Austrian archduke Felipe the Handsome • After the death of her older brothers and a nephew she became heir to the throne of Castille and Aragon • The same year he was sworn as heir to the Castilla Cortes (1502) a mental illness began to develop. Some say it was caused by her husband´s infidelity, as she was passionately in love with him.

Isabel IIMadrid, 1830 ; Paris 1940

Madrid

• Queen of Spain, Elizabeth II was born from the fourth marriage of Fernando VII to his niece Maria Cristina de Borbon.

• Shortly after the king changed the Pragmatic law that restored the traditional Castilla inheritance law under which women could ascend the throne if the monarch dies without male descendants.

Mariana PinedaGranada, 1804 ; Granada 1831

Granada

• Mariana de Pineda Muñoz, better known as Mariana Pineda was a Spanish hero who fought for liberal causes in the nineteenth century.

• She was born in Granada and she died executed by Garrote Vil in the same city.

Rosalía de CastroSantiago de Compostela, 1837 ; Padrón 1885

Santiago de Compostela• She was a Spanish poet and novelist in Galician and Castilian languages. She is the central figure of the Resurgence ofGalician literature in the nineteenth century.

• She is the author of Cantares gallegos (1863) which is one of the Contemporary Age first books written entirely in Galician.

María ZambranoMalaga, 1904 ; Madrid 1991

Málaga

• She was a Spanish philosopher and essayist, a disciple of the famous philosopher, also Spanish, Ortega y Gasset.

Agustina de AragónBarcelona, 1786 ; Ceuta 1857

Barcelona• She was a heroic defender of Zaragoza for the Sites, in the Spanish War of Independence.

Dolores IbarruriVizcaya, 1895 ; Madrid 1989

Málaga

• Dolores Ibarruri Gomez, called The Passion, was a Spanish politician. The Passion highlighted as a political leader in the Second Spanish Republic and the Civil War.

• Her political struggle joined the struggle for women's rights to demonstrate that women were in the condition they were and that people were free to choose their destiny.

Eugenia de MontijoGranada, 1826 ; Madrid 1920

Granada

• Countess de Teba, better known as Eugenia de Montijo was consort empress of France as wife of Napoleon III.