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Media in category "Featured pictures of Spain" The following 44 files are in this category, out of 44 total. 1000 Spanish pesetas.jpg 1,904 × 2,480; 3.72 MB.
Vision of Spain, (Spanish: Visión de España) and also known as The Provinces of Spain, is a 1913–19 series of fourteen monumental canvases by Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla depicting the customs, costumes, and traditions of regions of Spain. The series was commissioned by Archie Huntington for the Hispanic Society of America (HSA). [1]
Media in category "Images of Spain" This category contains only the following file. Jaume Llongueras - Book-plate of Jaume Llongueras Badia - Google Art Project.jpg 1,335 × 3,638; 1.42 MB
Toledo, Castile-La Mancha. Toledo is the Spanish city with arguably the most beautiful-sounding name when pronounced in Castilian. It's also among the most iconic medieval walled cities in Europe ...
Map of Spanish America c. 1800, showing the 4 viceroyalties (New Spain, pink), (New Granada, green), (Peru, orange), (Río de la Plata, blue) and provincial divisions During the early era and under the Habsburgs, the crown established a regional layer of colonial jurisdiction in the institution of Corregimiento , which was between the Audiencia ...
Spain had its new baroque style, which built altarpieces with Estípites or Solomonic columns, this style was used to decorate mainly churches, such is the case of the Cathedral of Santa María de la Sede of Seville, the Church of the Holy Spirit La Clerecía , or the Cathedral of Santa Eulalia in Barcelona. After the conquest of New Spain ...
Apart from 1984, 1985, and 1986 (Spain's first three years as a member), 2000 saw the most new sites inscribed, with five that year. As of 2024, Spain has 50 total sites inscribed on the list, which is the fifth largest number of sites per country, only behind Italy (60), China (59), Germany (54), and France (53). [5]
The Museo de América is an art, archaeology, and ethnography museum in Madrid, Spain, devoted to the whole of the Americas from the Paleolithic period to the present day. It is one of the National Museums of Spain and it is attached to the Ministry of Culture. Gallery formerly arranged to recall the Cabinet of Natural History that preceded the ...