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La Vela de Coro is the port of Coro, Venezuela. Coro and its port form a conurbation, although Coro is in the municipality of Miranda and La Vela is in a separate municipality, Colina. The twin settlements were founded by the Spanish in the 16th century. Like Coro, La Vela is notable for its architecture.
This arrangement, entitled the “Framework Agreement for Emergency Intervention in the area of Coro and its Port of La Vela,” allocated 64,000,000 Bolivars (approximately US $30 million) to be used for the conservation and protection of the heritage site. [1]
The Torre de la Polvóra. The Torre de la Polvóra ('Gunpowder Tower') is a small tower that stands at southern base of the Torre de la Vela. The southern ramparts of the Alcazaba became strategically more important in the 15th century as gunpowder artillery became a regular part of siege warfare.
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La Vela di Colombo, or the Sail of Columbus, is a monument located along the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey.It commemorates the 500th anniversary of the journey of Christopher Columbus to America in 1492, the role of Genoa, Italy in the Age of Discovery, and Italian immigration to the Port of New York and New Jersey.
Club La Vela was a nightclub owned by Patrick and Thorsten Pfeffer located in Panama City Beach, Florida. It was once billed as the largest nightclub in the United States. The club gained most of its fame and infamy in the 1990s during the weeks of spring break when thousands of college students converge on the club. The club was heavily ...
When miraculous healings began to be reported, Vela built a chapel to house the image. Later a larger church, the Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Peña de Francia, was built on the plains at the top of Peña de Francia that was given to the Dominicans to administer. In the fifteenth century, they built the church, the convent and a hospice ...
Vela is a constellation in the southern sky, which contains the Vela Supercluster. Its name is Latin for the sails of a ship, and it was originally part of a larger constellation, the ship Argo Navis , which was later divided into three parts, the others being Carina and Puppis .