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Paradores de Turismo de España S.M.E. S.A., branded as Paradores, is a Spanish state-owned chain of luxury hotels that are usually located in historic buildings or in nature areas with a special appeal. Its first parador was inaugurated on 9 October 1928 in Navarredonda de Gredos . As of 2023, it operates ninety-seven paradores in Spain and ...
The Spanish Missions of "La Florida". Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. pp. 1– 34. ISBN 0-8130-1232-5. Worth, John E. (1998). Timucua Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida. Volume 2: Resistance and Destruction. University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-1575-8. Worth, John E. (2007). The Struggle for the Georgia Coast. The University of ...
Paradores de Puerto Rico is a brand of small inns, similar to bed and breakfasts, that have government permission to call themselves paradores based on a set of criteria. In Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile, a small number of estancias, particularly those with historic architecture, have been converted into guest ranches called paradores.
Pages in category "Spanish missions in Florida" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park is a Florida State Park in Wakulla County, Florida organized around the historic site of a Spanish colonial fort (known as Fort St. Marks by the English and Americans), which was used by succeeding nations that controlled the area. The Spanish first built wooden buildings and a stockade in the late ...
A plaque showing the locations of a third of the missions between 1565 and 1763. Beginning in the second half of the 16th century, the Kingdom of Spain established missions in Spanish Florida (La Florida) in order to convert the indigenous tribes to Roman Catholicism, to facilitate control of the area, and to obstruct regional colonization by Protestants, particularly, those from England and ...
Spanish Florida (Spanish: La Florida) was the first major European land-claim and attempted settlement-area in northern America during the European Age of Discovery. La Florida formed part of the Captaincy General of Cuba in the Viceroyalty of New Spain , and the Spanish Empire during Spanish colonization of the Americas .