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A los héroes del dos de mayo or Al pueblo del dos de mayo de 1808 is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain. A sculptural work by Aniceto Marinas , the monument is an homage to the role of the Madrilenian people during the 1808 Dos de mayo uprising .
Público was established in September 2007. [2] [3] The founder is Jaume Roures, head of Mediapro. [2]One of only two national left-wing papers (the other being elDiario.es), [4] [5] the paper had a harder-left editorial line than El País. [6]
City hall building of the former municipality of Río Piedras.. The Spanish word pueblo [3] translates to 'town' in English, since many of these correspond to the original European-founded settlements in their respective contemporary municipalities; however, its usage in Puerto Rican Spanish today corresponds more closely to the concept of downtown in English.
Public housing in Puerto Rico is a subsidized system of housing units, mostly consisting of housing projects (residenciales, barriadas, or caseríos públicos), which are provided for low-income families in Puerto Rico.
In 1508, Juan Ponce de León founded the original Spanish settlement in Puerto Rico at Caparra (named after the province of Cáceres, Spain, the birthplace of then-governor of Spain's Caribbean territories Nicolás de Ovando), [6] which today is known as Pueblo Viejo barrio.
Mayagüez barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center of Mayagüez, a municipality of Puerto Rico.Its population in 2010 was 26,903. [1] [4] [5] [6]As was customary in Spain, in Puerto Rico, the municipality has a barrio called pueblo which contains a central plaza, the municipal buildings (city hall), and a Catholic church.
Yauco was named after the Yauco River, which itself comes from the Taíno word coayuco, meaning "cassava plantation" (also where the word yucca comes from). [2] The city has numerous nicknames such as Pueblo del Café ("coffee town"), due to the high number of coffee plantations in the area, and Pueblo de los Corsos ("Town of Corsicans"), after the large number of Corsican immigrants who ...
Premio al Pueblo Ejemplar de Asturias (in English: Exemplary Town of Asturias Award, in Asturian: Premiu al Pueblu Exemplar d'Asturies) [1] is an award granted since 1990 Fundación Princesa de Asturias de Asturias to the Asturian village who stand out in "defense of their noblest values, their natural or ecological environment, their historical, cultural or artistic heritage.