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Puerto de la Cruz is located on the northern coast, 4 km (2 mi) northwest of La Orotava and 30 km (19 mi) west of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The TF-5 motorway passes through the municipality. The population is 30,483 (2018 [ 2 ]). In Spanish, the local inhabitants are known as Portuenses. With an area of 8.73 km 2 (3 sq mi), the municipality is ...
Los empeños de una casa ( House of Desires) is one of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 's dramatic literary pieces. It was first performed on October 4, 1683, during the birthday celebrations held for the first-born child of the Viceroy Count of Paredes; [ 2] of which coincided with the entry of the new archbishop of Mexico City, Francisco de Aguiar ...
Casa de los Azulejos. The Casa de los Azulejos ("House of Tiles") or Palacio de los Condes del Valle de Orizaba (Palace of the Counts of Valley of Orizaba) is an 18th-century Baroque palace in Mexico City, built by the Count of the Valle de Orizaba family. The building is distinguished by its facade, which is covered on three sides by blue and ...
Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz[a] OSH (12 November 1651 – 17 April 1695), [1] was a New Spain writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, as well as a Hieronymite nun, nicknamed " The Tenth Muse " and " The Phoenix of America " by her contemporary critics. [1]
ES-12934. The Puerto de la Cruz Lighthouse (Spanish: Faro de Puerto de la Cruz) is an active lighthouse in Puerto de la Cruz on the northern coast of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. This modern lighthouse is situated within a seafront car park, to the west of the small port in the town. It is one of seven lighthouses which mark the coastline of ...
He was born in Villa Clara, Cuba, in February 1902. He became a doctor in the 1920s and was an adjunct professor of Clinical Therapeutics at the University of Havana School of Medicine until 1960. After World War II, together with Dr. Carlos Ramírez Corría, he invested and managed an industrial ceramic plant in Santiago de Las Vegas that was ...
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 ...
26 October 1608 (aged 54–55) Madrid, Spain. Nationality. Spanish. Known for. Court painter. Juan Pantoja de La Cruz (1553 – 26 October 1608) was a Spanish painter, one of the best representatives of the Spanish school of court painters. He worked for Philip II and Philip III. The Museo del Prado contains examples of his severe portraiture ...