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El paraguas: the umbrella: Para el sol y para el agua. For the sun and for the rain. 6 La sirena: the mermaid: Con los cantos de sirena, no te vayas a marear. Don't be swayed by the songs of the siren. (In Spanish, sirens and mermaids and their song are synonymous.) 7 La escalera: the ladder: Súbeme paso a pasito, no quieras pegar brinquitos.
The Museum contains 23 rooms of exhibitions that cover the area of 79,700 square meters, A courtyard with a huge pond and a vast concrete structure called “El Paraguas” (The Umbrella). [ 13 ] [ 14 ] One of the main problems that Vázquez wanted to prevent was a continuous museum, the design was to have open spaces to allow visitors choose ...
Paraguayan Spanish (Spanish: castellano paraguayo) is the set of dialects of the Spanish language spoken in Paraguay. In addition, it influences the speech of the Argentine provinces of Misiones , Corrientes , Formosa , and, to a lesser extent, Chaco .
Tomás Chávez Morado (December 29, 1914 – December 21, 2001) was an artist from Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico.He taught at public schools, the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, and the Escuela de Artes Plásticas at the Universidad de Guanajuato, where he served as the director of the School of Visual Arts. [1]
Niños bajo el paraguas (Kids Under Umbrella), Cádiz. Besides the plant species, considered a matter of interest are also the statues and memorials that pay homage to notable people and historical facts that influenced the history of Spain. Examples of them are the botanist Celestino Mutis, composer Manuel de Falla and the Battle of Trafalgar.
Carlos Romero Marchent (22 February 1944 – 19 August 2013) was a Spanish film actor, son of Joaquín Romero Marchent and brother of Rafael Romero Marchent, who directed Spaghetti Western films, Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent, and film editor Ana María Romero Marchent.
According to Instituto Cervantes' 2020 report "El Español: Una lengua viva", 68.2% of the Paraguayan population (4,946,322 inhabitants) has decent mastery of the Spanish language. The remaining 31.8% (2,306,350 inhabitants) has minimal mastery of the language; the majority of them are Guaraní speakers and speak Spanish as a second language. [ 4 ]
Spanish conquistadores arrived in 1524, and in 1537 established the city of Asunción, the first capital of the Governorate of the Río de la Plata. [9] During the 17th century, Paraguay was the center of Jesuit missions , where the native Guaraní people were converted to Christianity and introduced to European culture. [ 10 ]