Images

Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne. Photo by Jo Murricane

Stamped Brick with the mark of Legio VII Gemina. Interpretation Center of Roman León at Casona de Puerta Castillo, León, Spain.

Reenactor with the emblem of Legio VII Gemina on the third day of the Roman fair held in the district of Navia, Vigo, 24 August 2014.

The Faial volcanic crater in the Azores archipelago, North Atlantic. The Azores were colonized by the Portuguese from the 15th century.

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint.

A c.1584 map of the Azores archipelago in the North Atlantic. The islands were uninhabited before they were colonized by the Portuguese in the 15th century.

An 1850 painting of the Madeira landscape by Karl Briullov. The scene shows the transport of barrels of Madeira wine on the Portuguese island. (State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg)

A glass of Madeira wine, produced on the Portuguese island of Madeira since the 15th century.

A levada or aqueduct on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Levadas were built by Portuguese colonists to improve irrigation of plantations of wheat and sugar cane from the late 15th century onwards.

A map showing the location of the Madeira archipelago in the North Atlantic. Uninhabited but colonized by the Portuguese in the 15th century, the islands are now an autonomous region of Portugal.