3 Jan, 2025 | News
We start the new year with this interview by journalist Samuel Domínguez for “El Español”, where we take a look at the life of Luis Zueco. His childhood between Borja and Grisel Castle, his engineering studies in Zaragoza, his work in Madrid and his beginnings as a writer. To narrate how he left his life in the capital of Spain to return to Grisel to complete the restoration of the castle and enable it as tourist accommodation and how he repeated the process with the Castle-Palace of Bulbuente for 10 years. In addition, of course, to explain his literary career.
6 Nov, 2024 | News
Luis Zueco has just released his new novel, El mapa de un mundo nuevo, and we are honored to welcome him to Bodegas Borsao. This November 9th we will carry out a very special Borsao Experience limited to only 40 places: We will visit the new facilities. Luis Zueco will present us his new novel. We will taste our best wines with accompanying tapas. Time: from 11 am to 2 pm.
After the success of his previous publication, El tablero de la reina, Luis Zueco immerses us once again in a key period of Spanish history: the end of the reign of Isabella the Catholic. This novel narrates the years that forever changed the course of history, when every ship returning to port could transform the world, a map became the most precious asset of a crown and the exploits of a traveler were capable of setting an empire on fire. More than 300,000 copies sold and 6 awards for best historical novel support the author from Borjano who, in addition to being a scholar and disseminator of castles, is Director of the charming hotel Castillo de Grisel, awarded Best Tourist Experience of Aragon 2019 and of the Castle-Palace of Bulbuente.
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7 Sep, 2024 | News
Luis Zueco has just published his new and long awaited novel, and begins a tour with which he will travel around Spain. As many already know, Luis is the director of Castillo de Bulbuente and Castillo de Grisel. After successes such as “El tablero de la reina”, “El Mercader de libros” or “El Castillo”; he publishes “El mapa de un mundo nuevo” (Ediciones B) which comes out today in bookstores.
This novel focuses on how travel has been transforming our world throughout history. It is a tribute to travelers, to travel books and to all those who have wanted to discover what the world was like and tell others about it. It makes us travel to the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, when there is still no notion that America exists, but they are discovering that the world may not be as everyone believed until then.
Isabella the Catholic is a key character, and the plot begins with the wedding of her daughter Juana in Flanders and ends with her death and the attempt of Philip the Fair to seize power and Ferdinand the Catholic to prevent it. It addresses, among other issues, the attempt of the Catholic Monarchs to create a plan of marriage alliances and strategic moves to make their descendants the greatest power of the time. Twenty years have passed since the period of the previous novel. The crown is consolidated and in splendor, but the queen’s ambition goes further and what she devises is a plan for her descendants to dominate the world.
Its protagonists are a young cartographer who dreams of traveling to Asia and emulating Marco Polo and the daughter of a whale hunter who is driven by revenge. A story full of adventure, mystery and surprising plot twists. With the careful historical setting that characterizes the works of Luis Zueco.
The relationship between the Italian Renaissance and the beginning of the Spanish Golden Age is key in the novel, and how both, at the end of the 15th century, produced two essential journeys. Italy, through its economic power, through art and culture, undertakes the great inner discovery of man with the recovery of classical knowledge. And Portugal and Spain, thanks to their energy and a new conception of reality, began the extraordinary adventure of discovering what our planet is like. A double journey that began the road to Modernity.
13 Dec, 2023 | News
On Saturday, December 16, a first class literary event will be held at the Castle of Bulbuente, with the participation of members of the reading clubs of the municipal libraries of the Campo de Borja region and the writer Luis Zueco.
This conference organized by the Comarca de Campo de Borja is funded by the IAM, under the collaboration agreement signed with the regional entity. Attendees will be members of the book clubs that meet regularly to encourage the relationship between people interested in literature, promoting dialogue and exchange of opinion on the selected readings and providing different points of view from respect to their attendees.
The cultural event will begin with a guided tour of the Castle Palace of the Abbots of Veruela, a fortress restored and refurbished as a charming accommodation and venue for various cultural events, of which Luis Zueco is the director. Since the first novel by Luis Zueco was published in 2011, his career has been consolidated in the national scene as one of the main references of historical novels with wide international repercussion, having been translated into several languages.
The day, designed as a meeting of coexistence between the different book clubs, puts the focus on the female figures that populate the work of Luis Zueco, especially his latest creation “El tablero de la Reina”, which will be the subject of the talk-colloquium.
The final touch will be provided by the musical performance of the Ainzonera group Marta’s Way.
The collaboration of the Municipal Public Libraries of Ainzón, Borja, Fuendejalón, Maleján, Mallén and Magallón and the Reading Club of Bulbuente, the host municipality of this event, is worth mentioning.
The municipal public libraries are an essential cultural resource in the life of our municipalities, the driving force behind various initiatives, among which are the management or support of reading clubs and the proposal of events of a regional nature, such as this one, which is intended to be perpetuated over time.
19 Jun, 2023 | News
This weekend the Heraldo de Aragón publishes an interview with our director, Luis Zueco, focused on his work as a novelist. In it he has emphasized the union of literature and heritage that occurs in the Castle of Bulbuente. The fortress is not only a historic building recovered and enabled as charming accommodation, it is also his workspace, where he produces his literary works such as the latest and successful “El tablero de la reina”, set in the fifteenth century, with fundamental axes in the rise to power of Isabella the Catholic and the history of the game of chess.
What better plan than sleeping in a castle reading a novel?
If you want to read the complete article you have it available in this link: Escapade to Bulbuente Castle
