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Quito (c. 1889), attributed to Rafael Salas. National Museum of Ecuador. In the 1950s, local authorities and religious leaders stood looking at El Panecillo, a loaf-shaped, 656-foot-high (200 meters) hill in central Quito. They agreed that the hilltop, visible throughout the city, was the perfect place to erect a statue.
Herrán Matorras' Virgin of El Panecillo (1976) on El Panecillo is a large replica of the sculpture. The Virgin of Quito (Spanish, La Virgen de Quito) — also known as the Virgin of the Apocalypse, Winged Virgin of Quito, Dancing Madonna, and Legarda's Virgin — is a wooden sculpture by the Quiteño artist Bernardo de Legarda (ca. 1700-1773) which has become the most representative example ...
The El Panecillo hill seen from Quito's historic centre along the García Moreno street View of Quito from El Panecillo. El Panecillo (from Spanish panecillo small piece of bread, diminutive of pan bread) is a 200-metre-high hill of volcanic-origin, with loess soil, located between southern and central Quito. Its peak is at an elevation of ...
The Las Leyendas Nunca Mueren Tour was the fourth ... 2023, in Miami, Florida and concluded on December 6 in Quito, Ecuador ... Santiago de Compostela: ...
Chillogallo is an urban parish of the city of Quito, Ecuador. It is located in the southern part of the city. [1] [2] References This page was last edited on 30 ...
The depiction of the Virgin Mary.When in 1696 the bishop of Quito Sancho de Andrade y Figueroa was ill on December 30 the people of Guápulo or Quito made a prayer procession to Quito with the image of Our Lady from the church of Guápulo.
This however does not confirm the existence of the semi-legendary kingdom of Quito and is only archeological evidence for an independent Quitu culture with no united political entity in the region. According to the Spanish Jesuit missionary and historian Juan de Velasco , in his book, Historia del Reino de Quito en la América meridional (1789 ...
Quilago (c. 1490–1515) was the queen regnant of Cochasquí, in modern-day Ecuador.She is known for leading native resistance to the expansion of the Inca Empire and was supposedly the mother of Atahualpa, the last Sapa Inca.