The City of Rebedo

Synopsis

In a convulsed and divided Hispania, after the fall of the Roman Empire of the West, the foundations of a new nation begin to be forged among palacic intrigues, fratricidal wars and the collation of two opposing Fes. Hispania, 6th century, brings us to the turbulent reign of Leovigilance, a Visigoous monarch determined to consolidate its power onto an still fragmented peninsula. His ambition leads him to have found a monumental city for his Rebedo son, a symbol of unity and dynastic continuity. But in the shadows of the throne, the rebellious spirit of Hermenegildo, the first-born of the king, awoke and challenges the dominant Arrian faith and puts into check the fragile balance of the kingdom. Between fanaticism and reason, between warrior honor and imperial ambition, an epic drama develops where human passions model history. With a powerful and strict narrative style, the novel intertwines true facts with historic fiction, submerting the reader into Visigoda Hispania as rarely counted: brutal, beautiful and tragic. Instead of an account of subsequent disputes, this work is a meditation about a people's faith, power and destiny. Through their characters - kings, monks, warriors and maids - we reveal the fragility of alliances, the strength of conviction and the price of treason. Hispania, 6th century, is an indispensable work for those who seek to understand the origins of Hispanic identity at a time where the future of an entire civilization was about the will of a few men and of the designs of heaven.