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La Santa is a village in Tinajo, Las Palmas province of western Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. The village has a small harbor and is a popular spot for water sports. The village has a small harbor and is a popular spot for water sports.
De Wallen red-light district in Amsterdam. Red-light districts are areas associated with the sex industry and sex-oriented businesses (e.g. sex shops and strip clubs).In some of these places prostitution occurs, whether legally or illegally.
List of skyscrapers with more than 50m. of the Canary Islands, although the total of tall buildings in the two Canarian capitals according to Emporis.com data is: 17 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife [1] and 15 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
30 November 1833 the Province of Canary Islands had been created with the capital being declared as Santa Cruz de Tenerife. [101] The rivalry between the cities of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife for the capital of the islands led to the division of the archipelago into two provinces on 23 September 1927. [102]
Under the leadership of Ben Milam, in the Battle of Bexar, December, 1835, Texian forces captured San Antonio from forces commanded by General Martin Perfecto de Cos, Santa Anna's brother-in-law. Forces opposing Santa Anna took control of the entire province of Texas. Today Milam Park and the Cos House in San Antonio commemorate this battle.
In Mancha Blanca is the chapel of the Our Lady of Dolours (Virgen de los Dolores), the patron saint of the island of Lanzarote. 29°02′35″N 13°41′24″W / 29.043°N 13.69°W / 29.043;
César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport [3] (IATA: ACE, ICAO: GCRR) (Spanish: Aeropuerto de César Manrique-Lanzarote), commonly known as Lanzarote Airport and also known as Arrecife Airport, is the airport serving the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.
[e] In November 1943, the British Ambassador in Lisbon, Sir Ronald Campbell, wrote, paraphrasing Salazar, that "strict neutrality was the price the allies paid for strategic benefits accruing from Portugal's neutrality and that if her neutrality instead of being strict had been more benevolent in our favour Spain would inevitably have thrown ...