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Procession of the Virgin, Cruz de Mayo, Sama de Grado, Asturias, Spain. Cross of the Hermandad de la Cruz de la Calle La Fuente. Rociana del Condado, Province of Huelva. Aguilar de la Frontera (Province of Córdoba). There is a procession of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios from the Iglesia de la Veracruz ("Church of the True Cross") in the ...
A los héroes del dos de mayo or Al pueblo del dos de mayo de 1808 is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain. A sculptural work by Aniceto Marinas , the monument is an homage to the role of the Madrilenian people during the 1808 Dos de mayo uprising .
The Third of May 1808 in Madrid (commonly known as The Third of May 1808) [1] and also known, in Spanish, as El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid or Los fusilamientos de la montaña del Príncipe Pío, [2] or Los fusilamientos del tres de mayo, is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
The Monument to the Fallen for Spain (Spanish: Monumento a los Caídos por España) or the Monument to the Heroes of the Second of May (Monumento a los Héroes del Dos de Mayo), popularly known as el Obelisco ("the Obelisk"), is a war memorial in Madrid, Spain. It lies on the centre of the Plaza de la Lealtad .
It is a companion to the painting The Third of May 1808 and is set in the Calle de Alcalá near Puerta del Sol, Madrid, during the Dos de Mayo Uprising. It depicts one of the many people's rebellions against the French occupation of Spain that sparked the Peninsular War. Both paintings were completed within a two-month period in 1814.
First class, distintivo blanco the lowest, type 1868. Cruz type 1941 withdistintivo rojo, the highest. Russia clamp 1943. Established on 3 August 1864 by Queen Isabella II as the Order of Military Merit (Spanish: Orden del Mérito Militar), it has been amended many times (in 1918, 1926, 1931, 1938, 1942, 1976, 1995, 2003 and 2007).
Flores de Mayo (Spanish for "flowers of May") is a festival held in the Philippines in the month of May. It is one of the May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary and lasts for the entire month. The Santacruzan (from the Spanish santa cruz , "holy cross") is the ritual pageant held on the last day of the Flores de Mayo .
The Plaza del Dos de Mayo is an urban square in Madrid, Spain. It is the centre of the Malasaña area, [ 1 ] within the administrative neighborhood of Universidad . Its name remembers the Dos de Mayo Uprising in 1808 that marked the beginning of the Spanish War of Independence . [ 2 ]