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Monasterio de la Victoria is a former monastery located in El Puerto de Santa María, province of Cádiz, southern Spain. It was built in the 16th century by Dukes of Medinaceli. The buildings housed a prison between 1886 and 1981. During the Second Spanish Republic, the Civil War and Franco's Dictatorship, the Monastery was used as a prison.
Mount Maunganui, or Mauao, known to locals as The Mount, [3] is a 232 metre (760 foot) volcanic dome at the end of a peninsula in the Tauranga suburb of Mount Maunganui in New Zealand, beside the eastern entrance to the city's harbour. Local Māori consider Mauao to be tapu (sacred), and it plays an important role in their mythology.
Oaxaca en la historia y en el mito (English: Oaxaca in history and myth) is a huge mural created by Arturo García Bustos (1926-2017) and located in Oaxaca de Juárez, know in English as Oaxaca City. García Bustos was "an artist dedicated to the humanistic struggles and liberal ideals that he expressed profoundly in his art."
Dia de la Virgen del Carmen: One of the most popular Saint of El Puerto de Santa María and all fishermen is the Virgen Del Carmen, and on the 16th of July, her image (statue) is taken from the local Church, carried into the sea on board a fishing boat, and then paraded around the town.
During this period, the Convite de Rabinal and Santa Cruz del Quiché are presented and the cofradía members celebrate with fireworks. The legend of the Virgen del Patrocinio is well known by local historians, who say that in the mid-eighteenth century, [ 14 ] a woman appeared to an old man who was cutting wood on the summit of San Miguel ...
San Manuel Bueno, mártir (1931) is a short novel by Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936). It experiments with changes of narrator as well as minimalism of action and of description, and as such has been described as a nivola, a literary genre invented by Unamuno to describe his work.
He was born in Hispaniola.His father, Miguel Díez de Aux the Elder, hailed from the Aragonese lower nobility and served as Bartholomew Columbus' servant in his 1494. The Elder and five other conquistadors had run away from the settlement of La Isabela after he mortally wounded another Spaniard in a duel, leading them to plant their own settlements in the Haina area of the island, along with ...
Miguel’s great-grandfather, Antonio Martínez de Pinillos Marín, was the last one who lived in La Rioja. His son and Miguel’s grandfather, Miguel Martínez de Pinillos y Sáenz de Velasco , though born in Nieva de Cameros moved to the South and settled in Cádiz.