“El bicentenario iberoamericano 200 años-200 imágenes” seeks to offer a look back at the past, two hundred years after the start of the independence processes in Hispanic America, as a way of also addressing the future among peoples who have never ceased to be brothers and sisters, sharing the same language, a common past, and a shared culture. To this end, it presents the most significant events in two hundred images that, at a single glance, capture conflict, struggle, life, hope, death, peace, war, love… In short, the collective imagination that shapes our memories and our reality.

Miguel Rojas Mix, editor of the volume, states that to travel through 200 years of Ibero-American life in 200 images is to pass through that collective imagination through which community is built, since nations do not exist unless they are told—or at least imagined. This book helps to establish concepts, symbols, and images as forms of shared recognition, as points of reference along a journey that moves through history, but also through institutions, science, new technologies, sport, entertainment, and everyday life, preserving in memory the elements that constitute the core of our national and communal identity. Alongside the University of Córdoba, UNESCO, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, the Provincial Council, the Regional Ministry of Innovation, Science and Enterprise of the Regional Government of Andalusia, Córdoba City Council, Cajasol, and the Cultural Capital 2016 project joined forces to publish this work.