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Calafia, or Califia, is the fictional queen of the island of California, first introduced by 16th century poet Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo in his epic novel of chivalry, Las sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián), written around 1510. [1]
Queen Califia's Magical Circle is an outdoor sculpture garden in Kit Carson Park in Escondido, California, named in honor of the legendary Queen Califia of California. Opened posthumously in 2003, it is one of the last works of Franco-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle. [1]
The Esplandián novel describes a fictional island named California, [8] inhabited only by black women, ruled by Queen Calafia, and east of the Indies. When Spanish explorers, under the command of Hernán Cortés, learned of an island off the coast of Western Mexico, and rumored to be ruled by Amazon women, they named it California.
Calafia became Rivera’s Spirit of California, a backdrop for men felling trees and mining. The arc of this figure through history and fiction traces the destruction of feminine and Indigenous ...
English: Detail of Queen Califia in the "California's Name" mural (Lucile Lloyd, 1937) located in the California Capitol, in the John Burton Hearing Room. Queen Calafia is depicted as a Mayan warrior-priestess.
(Depiction of Calafia from a 1937 mural at the California Capitol by Lucile Lloyd) In the early 16th-century romance novel Las sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián), California was the name of a mythical island populated only by black warrior women. The popular Spanish novel was printed in several editions, with the earliest ...
The Calafia, named for the fictional warrior queen, pours wines that focus on vintages and the nuances of their terroir, sourcing from beyond Spain and California, at a cost of $415.
In the 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II of England, the monarch visited the city of Sacramento but once. Part of a West Coast tour in 1983, the queen spent 10 days on the western side of the U ...