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Casa de los Condes de la Torre Cossío y de la Cortina, or the House of the Count De la Torre y la Cortina, in the Historic center of Mexico City: a colonial mansion, in which a spree killer named Juan Manuel de Solórzano lived in the 1630s. Believing his wife was capable of cheating on him, he killed several men, simply because they walked ...
Hacienda de la Paz is a large estate property in the city of Rolling Hills, on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in the Los Angeles area of Southern California. [1] It was designed by the 2010 Driehaus Prize winner Rafael Manzano Martos with decorator Manuel Gavira Sanjuan [2] for owner/builder John Z. Blazevich [3] and is Martos' only project in the Americas. [4]
The land originally belonged to Inés P. de Ramírez, and after several sales it became property of Walter Hanstein, who already owner La Paz hacienda, to which Santa Teresa was annexed. After Hanstein retirement, his offspring split Santa Teresa into small lots for the former workers of his father's haciendas. Parcelamiento Natividad de María ...
A typical scene in the Chihuahua desert. The Sánchez Navarro ranch (1765–1866) in Mexico was the largest privately owned estate or latifundio in Latin America. At its maximum extent, the Sánchez Navarro family owned more than 67,000 square kilometres (16,500,000 acres) of land, an area almost as large as the Republic of Ireland and larger than the American state of West Virginia.
La Blanca and other Formative Period sites, as of approximately 900 BC. La Blanca is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site in present-day La Blanca, San Marcos Department, western Guatemala. It has an occupation dating predominantly from the Middle Preclassic (900–600 BC) period of Mesoamerican chronology.
This $2.6 million investment translates into a half-acre park, featuring two children’s play areas, plus fitness equipment, seating areas, turf and security lighting. La Paz Mini Park officially ...
Francisco Cortés de San Buenaventura arrived followed in 1530 by Nuño de Guzman, and Juan de Escárcena. In 1542 San Marcos was visited by the Viceroy D. Antonio de Mendoza on his way to put down a large indigenous rebellion. The town itself was founded on June 28, 1740, by Fray Antonio de Jesus who was instrumental in construction of the church.
The San Lazaro Leisure Park, officially known as the San Lazaro Leisure and Business Park, is a mixed-used venue which features a racetrack in Carmona, Cavite, Philippines. It is the home of the Manila Jockey Club. The leisure park occupies a land 77 hectares (770,000 m 2) and houses around 1,000 thoroughbreds as of 2015. Pagcor operates a ...