A Replica of the Nao (ship) Victoria, the first ship to circumnavigate the earth, is docked in Barcelona and open to the public until March 2012. This replica of the Victoria is in port before completing a round the world voyage to celebrate and raise awareness of the first circumnavigation of the globe, in which her namesake took part between 1519 and 1522, as one of 5 ships in the fleet of Ferdinand Magellan. This was the first expedition to successfully round the perilous Straights of ...