BOOK " JOURNEY OF FATHER
LABAT IN SPAIN"
FROM 1705 TO 1706.
(France, 20th c.)
Magos Foundation Collection
Extract: “The Wise Men embarked on the ships of Cadiz, passed the strait and having as a guide this marvelous star, they arrived at Tyre where having disembarked, they travelled the rest of their journey on dromedaries, as it is marked in the writings.” Published by Pierre Roger in Paris in 1927 with engravings representing Cadiz and Gibraltar
THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI:
FROM CADIZ (THARSIS) TO MALAGA TO
TYR (LEBANON)
“The Magi went to Spain and joined the King of Mauritania. They embarked in Cadiz with the fleet of Tharsis. They passed through the straits of Tyre on the Mediterranean Sea” Geronimo de la Concepción, 1690. At the time of the nativity, a maritime route left from Cadiz, passed through the Straits of Gibraltar to Malaga and then continued to Cartagena to supply Rome. Another route left from Cadiz to Malaga to reach Tyre, the main port of entry to Roman Syria. The city of Malaka (Malaga) was named after the merchants of Tyre, the city of origin of the navigators who founded Malaga in the VIII century BC.