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La Mota Castle (Castillo de la Mota, Castillo de Santa Cruz de la Mota [2] [3] or Castillo del Santo Christo de la Mota [4]) is an old fortress in San Sebastian, Spain.. The castle's primary defences were its strategic placement on the hilltop of Mount Urgull (Monte Orgullo), its thick walls (with access at three points, including to the keep, using drawbridges) [1] and, over time, its ...
Winfried Georg Sebald [1] (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was according to The New Yorker ”widely recognized for his extraordinary contribution to world literature.” [ 2 ]
Campo Santo, a former cemetery beside Perpignan Cathedral, France; Campo Santo Teutonico, a Catholic college in Rome; Santa Maria della Pietà in Camposanto dei Teutonici, a Roman Catholic church in Vatican City; Campo Santo, a book by W. G. Sebald; Campo Santo (company), video game developer of Firewatch
Sebaldus (or Sebald) was an Anglo-Saxon missionary to Germany in the 9th or 10th century. He settled down as a hermit in the Reichswald near Nuremberg [ de ] , of which city he is the patron saint .
The Battle of Campo Santo was fought in Campo Santo, Italy, on 8 February 1743 between Spain and Austria as part of the War of the Austrian Succession. The Spaniards and their Neapolitan allies under General De Gages were fought to a standstill by the Austrians and their Sardinian allies under Field Marshal Traun on the Panaro. The Spanish ...
Campo Santo is the oldest public cemetery in Salvador and one of the oldest in Brazil; it is also the largest in the Northeast region of the country. It covers 62,000 square metres (670,000 sq ft), has more than 40,000 burials, and continues to expand. [3] [1] [2] Campo Santo was the first municipal cemetery in Salvador and opened in 1836.
Campo Santo Productions LLC is an American video game developer based in Bellevue, Washington. Founded in September 2013 by Sean Vanaman , Jake Rodkin , Nels Anderson, and Olly Moss , the studio is best known for its debut game released in 2016, Firewatch .
"Campo Santo" can be literally translated as "holy field", because it is said to have been built around a shipload of sacred soil from Golgotha, brought to Pisa from the Third Crusade by Ubaldo Lanfranchi, archbishop of Pisa in the 12th century. A legend claims that bodies buried in that ground will rot in just 24 hours.