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revista numero It is inarguable that the golden age of European maritime navigation was transformative for the economies, aesthetics and worldview of the west, with far-reaching, mixed and often devastating consequences for the communities the mariners reached. To?maritime trading nations the seas were not a barrier but a highway. Where we see emptiness, the Venetians and Genoese, Portuguese, Spanish, and later the Dutch and English saw sea-lanes and the road to El Dorado.