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This is a documentary/fictitious movie with brief inserts in which are developed some re-enacting and lives of some historical characters . Concerning historical roles as well as intrigue and power-fight in kingdom of the Catholic Kings . This TV movie recreates faithfully historical facts about Fernando II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castilla and other characters as Cisneros , Torquemada as well as essential happenings : Treaty of Alcáçovas (1479) between the Catholic Monarchs of Castile and Aragon on one side and Afonso V and his son, Prince John of Portugal, on the other side that put an end to the Portuguese/Spanish War of the Castilian Succession War , Spain unification , America discovery by Colón and Granada conquest . But the developing results to be a little strange , in fact , most roles are played by children and elderly people . As we find us with adults as Fernando II and Isabel I performed by little boys or seventy-year-old actors . The TV movie was regularly directed Gracia Querejeta.

This period piece was well based on real events , these are the following ones : Fernando II so called Ferdinand the Catholic, was King of Aragon and Sardinia from 1479, King of Sicily from 1469, King of Naples (as Ferdinand III) from 1504 and King of Navarre (as Ferdinand I) from 1512 until his death in 1516. He was King of Castile and Leon (as Ferdinand V) from 1475 to 1504, alongside his wife Queen Isabella I. From 1507 to 1516, he was the Regent of the Crown of Castile, making him the effective ruler of Castile. From 1511 to 1516, he styled himself as Imperator totius Africa (Emperor of All Africa) after having conquered Tlemcen and making the Zayyanid Sultan, Abu Abdallah V, his vassal. He was also the Grandmaster of the Spanish Military Orders of Santiago , Calatrava , Alcantara and Montesa , after he permanently annexed them into the Spanish Crown. He reigned jointly with Isabella over a dynastically unified Spain; together they are known as the Catholic Monarchs. Ferdinand is considered the de facto first King of Spain, and was described as such during his reign (Rex Hispaniarum), even though, legally, Castile and Aragon remained two separate kingdoms until they were formally united by the Nueva Planta decrees issued between 1707 and 1716. The Crown of Aragon that Ferdinand inherited in 1479 included the kingdoms of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia, and Sicily, as well as the principality of Catalonia. His marriage to Queen Isabella I of Castile is regarded as the "cornerstone in the foundation of the Spanish monarchy". Ferdinand played a major role in the European colonization of the Americas, from drawing up the Capitulations of Santa Fe to having his personal accountant, Luis de Santangel, undertake more than half the cost of sponsoring Christopher Columbus' first voyage in 1492 to prudently negotiating the terms with John II of Portugal for the Treaty of Tordesillas. That same year, the couple defeated Granada, the last Muslim state in Western Europe, thus completing the centuries-long Reconquista. Ferdinand was King of the Crown of Castile until Isabella's death in 1504, when their daughter Joanna became Queen. That year, after a war with France, Ferdinand conquered the Kingdom of Naples. In 1507 he became Regent of Castile (as Rey Señor de Castilla) on behalf of his mentally unstable daughter Joanna. In 1506, as part of a treaty with France, Ferdinand married Germaine of Foix, niece of King Louis XII of France and sister of Gaston of Foix . Ferdinand and Germaine's only child, John, died shortly after his birth. In 1512 Ferdinand conquered the Kingdom of Navarre, ruling all the territories comprising modern-day Spain until his death in 1516. He was succeeded by his eldest surviving child, Joanna, and his grandson Charles. Ferdinand's great-grandson Phillip II of Spain, while staring at a portrait of him, is recorded to have said "We owe everything to him". Modern historian John Elliott concluded "in so far as it can be attributed to any particular set of policies and actions, they were those of King Ferdinand and Cardinal Cisneros.