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Santa Maria (Spanish for "St. Mary") is a city in the Central Coast of California in northern Santa Barbara County.It is approximately 65 miles (105 km) northwest of Santa Barbara and 150 miles (240 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
The Santa Maria Times formed in 1882. [9] The Bank of Santa Maria was founded in 1890 [10] or 1906, [4] and later became the Security-First National Bank. It was demolished in the late 1960s and turned into a gas station. [4]
The Convent of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, also called Convent of Aracoeli and formerly known as Convent of Santa Maria in Capitolio, was a historic monastic complex of medieval origin in Rome, Italy, which first belonged to the Order of Saint Benedict and then to the Franciscans.
[1] [2] Santa María was a medium-sized commercial nau or carrack, about 62 ft (18.9 m) long on deck, and according to Juan Escalante de Mendoza in 1575, Santa María was "very little larger than 100 toneladas" (about 100 tons, or tuns) burthen, or burden, [3] [4] [5] and was used as the flagship for the expedition.
The Pacific Coast Railway was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railway on the Central Coast of California.The original 10-mile (16 km) link from San Luis Obispo to Avila Beach and Port Harford was later built southward to Santa Maria and Los Olivos, with branches to Sisquoc and Guadalupe.
State Route 135 is the original routing for US 101 from Santa Maria to Los Alamos until the current alignment was completed in 1933. However, instead of turning east just before old town Orcutt and then north into Santa Maria as it does currently, it continued north along what is now Graciosa Road and then Marcum Street linking up with E. Clark Avenue just north of the Orcutt water tower.
KGDP-FM (90.5 FM) is a non-commercial radio station that is licensed to Santa Maria, California and broadcasts to the Santa Maria—Lompoc area. The station is owned by Family Life Broadcasting and airs a contemporary Christian music format as an affiliate of Family Life Radio.
The Wharf of the Caravels (Spanish: Muelle de las Carabelas) is a museum in Palos de la Frontera, in the province of Huelva, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.Its most prominent exhibits are replicas of Christopher Columbus's boats for his first voyage to the Americas, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María.