The European Parliament and the Enrique Gil y Carrasco Library organize, with the support of AC/E, an exhibition on the life and work of the poet, journalist and diplomat Enrique Gil, in which he emphasizes his clear Europeanist vocation.
The Leon writer Enrique Gil y Carrasco, born in 1815 in Villafranca del Bierzo, was one of the most prominent Spanish diplomats in Europe, and perhaps the first to study in depth the Prussian customs union, the Zollverein, a direct antecedent of the European trade treaties and the current European Union.
He was also a romantic writer, mainly remembered for the historicist romantic novel "El Señor de Bembibre" (1843), a masterpiece of Spanish fictional romantic prose, which follows the model of Walter Scott's novels.
The Leon writer Enrique Gil y Carrasco, born in 1815 in Villafranca del Bierzo, was one of the most prominent Spanish diplomats in Europe, and perhaps the first to study in depth the Prussian customs union, the Zollverein, a direct antecedent of the European trade treaties and the current European Union.
He was also a romantic writer, mainly remembered for the historicist romantic novel "El Señor de Bembibre" (1843), a masterpiece of Spanish fictional romantic prose, which follows the model of Walter Scott's novels.
