Heart Evangelista

My maternal great-grandfather Don Juan del Gallego was a Spanish adventurer from Asturias, Spain. He sailed on a galleon ship to the Philippines. He then went to the Bicol region to build a town that eventually became known as Del Gallego.

Filipino Actress

Alfred Noyes

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.

English Poet

Galleons are from an era of exploration and colonization, mainly the 16th to 18th centuries.

Historical Use

Galleons often symbolize adventure, treasure, and historical sea voyages in stories and films.

Cultural Symbol

Galleon is not used to refer to contemporary ships, only historical ones.

Not Modern

 by posing the most difficult questions they could muster. But Juana successfully answered every challenge, from complicated equations to philosophical queries. Observers would later liken the scene to “a royal galleon fending off a few canoes.”

History's "worst" nun -...

 Geographic magazine you know of all the treasures in the world it's the only documented pirate treasure period all of the treasures that we've heard about you know in the Caribbean it's not pirate treasure Spanish galleons this is real