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Lugares Colombinos
The ''Lugares colombinos'' ("Columbian places") is a tourist route in the Spanish province Huelva, which includes several places that have special relevance to the preparation and realization of the first voyage of Cristopher Columbus. That voyage is widely considered to constitute the discovery of the Americas by Europeans. It was declared a '' conjunto histórico artístico'' ("historic/artistic grouping") by a Spanish law of 1967. There are two localities so honored: Palos de la Frontera (both the old center and the La Rábida Monastery distant), and Moguer. Columbus visited each of these places several times, and people associated with each played roles in his voyage. He received help and collaboration for his projected voyage from the brothers of the La Rábida Monastery, the Pinzón Brothers of Palos de la Frontera, the Niño Brothers of Moguer and other prestigious families of mariners in the area who were further distinguished by their participation in the voyage of d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Martín Pinzón
Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of the community) when he founded the Franciscan order, and "Paco" is a short form of ''Pater Comunitatis''. In areas of Spain where Basque is spoken, "Patxi" is the most common nickname; in the Catalan areas, "Cesc" (short for Francesc) is often used. In Spanish Latin America and in the Philippines, people with the name Francisco are frequently called "Pancho". " Kiko" is also used as a nickname, and "Chicho" is another possibility. In Portuguese, people named Francisco are commonly nicknamed " Chico" (''shíco''). This is also a less-common nickname for Francisco in Spanish. People with the given name * Pope Francis is rendered in the Spanish and Portuguese languages as Papa Francisco * Francisco Acebal (1866–1933), Spanish writer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicente Yañez Pinzón
Vicente is an Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese name. Like its French variant, Vincent, it is derived from the Latin name ''Vincentius'' meaning "conquering" (from Latin ''vincere'', "to conquer"). Vicente may refer to: Location *São Vicente, Cape Verde - an island in Cape Verde People Given Name * Vicente Aleixandre (1898–1984), Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate * Vicente Álvarez Travieso, first alguacil mayor (1731–1779) of San Antonio, Texas * Vicente Aranda (1926–2015), Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer * Vicente del Bosque (b. 1950), former Spanish footballer and former manager of the Spain national football team * José Vicente Feliz, American settler * Vicente Fernández (1940–2021), Mexican retired singer, actor, and film producer * Vicente Fox Quesada (b. 1942), Mexican politician who served as President of Mexico * Juan Vicente Gómez (1857–1935), Venezuelan military dictator * Vicente Guaita (b. 1987), Spanish footballer * Vicente Guerrero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martín Alonso Pinzón
Martín Alonso Pinzón, (; Palos de la Frontera, Huelva; c. 1441 – c. 1493) was a Spanish mariner, shipbuilder, navigator and exploration, explorer, oldest of the Pinzón brothers. He sailed with Christopher Columbus on his Voyages of Christopher Columbus#First voyage, first voyage to the New World in 1492, as captain (nautical)#Master, captain of the ''Pinta (ship), Pinta''. His youngest brother Vicente Yáñez Pinzón was captain of the ''Niña'', and the middle brother Francisco Martín Pinzón was ''maestre'' (first mate) of the ''Pinta''. The Pinzón family of Palos The Pinzón family was among the leading families of Palos de la Frontera in the late 15th century. There are several conflicting theories about the origin of the family and of their name (''see Pinzón brothers#The Pinzón family of Palos, Pinzón family''). His grandfather was a sailor and diver known as ''Martín''; it is not clear whether that was a first or last name, and whether in his generation ''Pinzó ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fontanilla Palos
The ''Fontanilla'' is the former public fountain of Palos de la Frontera in Spain where, according to tradition, these fountains provided the water for the ships of Christopher Columbus's first voyage—the '' Santa María'', the ''Niña'', and the '' Pinta''—when, on 3 August 1492, they departed from Palos de la Frontera, captained by Columbus and by Palos's own Pinzón Brothers upon the voyage widely considered to have led the "discovery" of what historians term the "New World". La Fontanilla is the least dramatic, but perhaps the most original and authentic monument among the so-called ''Lugares colombinos'', the places in Huelva closely associated with Columbus's first voyage. Origin and architectural style There were two places where water was drawn in Palos: the fountain of Villafrías, at the exit of the estuary, facing the Isla de Saltés, and the Fontanilla, outside of the historic center of the city, but immediately to its east. An estuary of the Río Tinto came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mudéjar
Mudéjar ( , also , , ca, mudèjar , ; from ar, مدجن, mudajjan, subjugated; tamed; domesticated) refers to the group of Muslims who remained in Iberia in the late medieval period despite the Christian reconquest. It is also a term for Mudejar art, which was much influenced by Islamic art, but produced typically by Christian craftsmen for Christian patrons. Mudéjar was originally the term used for Moors or Muslims of Al-Andalus who remained in Iberia after the Christian ''Reconquista'' but were not initially forcibly converted to Christianity or exiled. The word Mudéjar references several historical interpretations and cultural borrowings. It was a medieval Castilian borrowing of the Arabic word ''Mudajjan'' , meaning "subjugated; tamed", referring to Muslims who submitted to the rule of Christian kings. The term likely originated as a taunt, as the word was usually applied to domesticated animals such as poultry. The term Mudéjar also can be translated from Arabic a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gazebo
A gazebo is a pavilion structure, sometimes octagonal or turret-shaped, often built in a park, garden or spacious public area. Some are used on occasions as bandstands. Etymology The etymology given by Oxford Dictionaries (website), Oxford Dictionaries is "Mid 18th century: perhaps humorously from gaze, in imitation of Latin future tenses ending in -ebo: compare with lavabo." L. L. Bacon put forward a derivation from ''Casbah of Algiers, Casbah'', a Muslim quarter around the citadel in Algiers.Bacon, Leonard Lee. "Gazebos and Alambras", ''American Notes and Queries'' 8:6 (1970): 87–87 W. Sayers proposed Andalusian Arabic, Hispano-Arabic ''qushaybah'', in a poem by Córdoba, Spain, Cordoban poet Ibn Quzman (d. 1160).William Sayers, ''Eastern prospects: Kiosks, belvederes, gazebos''. Neophilologus 87: 299–305, 200/ref> The word ''gazebo'' appears in a mid-18th century English book by the architects John and William Halfpenny: ''Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste''. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post-Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia, and was ruled by emperors. From the accession of Caesar Augustus as the first Roman emperor to the military anarchy of the 3rd century, it was a Principate with Italia as the metropole of its provinces and the city of Rome as its sole capital. The Empire was later ruled by multiple emperors who shared control over the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. The city of Rome remained the nominal capital of both parts until AD 476 when the imperial insignia were sent to Constantinople following the capture of the Western capital of Ravenna by the Germanic barbarians. The adoption of Christianity as the state church of the Roman Empire in AD 380 and the fall of the Western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fontanilla
The ''Fontanilla'' is the former public fountain of Palos de la Frontera in Spain where, according to tradition, these fountains provided the water for the ships of Christopher Columbus's first voyage—the '' Santa María'', the ''Niña'', and the '' Pinta''—when, on 3 August 1492, they departed from Palos de la Frontera, captained by Columbus and by Palos's own Pinzón Brothers upon the voyage widely considered to have led the "discovery" of what historians term the "New World". La Fontanilla is the least dramatic, but perhaps the most original and authentic monument among the so-called ''Lugares colombinos'', the places in Huelva closely associated with Columbus's first voyage. Origin and architectural style There were two places where water was drawn in Palos: the fountain of Villafrías, at the exit of the estuary, facing the Isla de Saltés, and the Fontanilla, outside of the historic center of the city, but immediately to its east. An estuary of the Río Tinto came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Monument (Spain)
The current legislation regarding historical monuments in Spain dates from 1985. However, ''Monumentos nacionales'' (to use the original term) were first designated in the nineteenth century. It was a fairly broad category for national heritage sites protecting, for example, the Alhambra. The overarching category for Spanish heritage sites is now ''Bien de Interés Cultural'' ("good of cultural interest"). . Now there are some 13,000 monuments registered by the |
