|
Cantabrian Stelae
The Cantabrian stelae are monolithic stone disks of different sizes, whose early precedents were carved in the last centuries before the romanization of Cantabria in northern Iberian Peninsula. Cantabrian stelae include swastikas, triskeles, crosses, spirals, helixes, warriors or pre-Roman funerary representations among their usual ornamentation. The most famous is called ''Estela de Barros'' (Barros Stele) which can be visited in the ''Parque de las Estelas'' (Stelae Park) in the town of Barros, in Los Corrales de Buelna. This stele is part of the current coat of arms of Cantabria and the meaning of tetraskelion would be related to solar worship. The Barros stele giant size represents the main difference to the smaller stelae found in other parts of northern Spain. In addition to the ''Estela de Barros'', we can see another larger, fragmented stele in the ''Parque de las Estelas''. Other found stelae are exhibited in the Regional Museum of Prehistory and Archaeology of Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estela 2
Estela may refer to: * Estela (Póvoa de Varzim), Portugal * Estela, Buenos Aires, Argentina * CD Estela, a Spanish basketball team People with the given name * Estela Perlas-Bernabe (born 1952), Philippine jurist * Estela de Carlotto (born 1930), Argentine human rights activist * Estela Casas (born 1961), American news anchor * Estela Domínguez (born 1969), Spanish volleyball player * Estela García (born 1989), Spanish sprinter * Estela Giménez (born 1979), Spanish rhythmic gymnast * Estela Golovchenko (born 1963), Uruguayan playwright, actress, and theater director * Estela Inda (1917–1995), Mexican actress * Estela Jiménez Esponda, Mexican women's rights activist * Estela Milanés (born 1967), Cuban softball player * Estela Navascués (born 1981), Spanish long-distance runner * Estela Portillo-Trambley (1936–1999), American poet and playwright * Estela Quesada (1924–2011), Costa Rican lawyer and politician * Estela Renner (born 1973), Brazilian filmmaker * Es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zurita, Cantabria
Zurita is a village in the municipality of Piélagos in Cantabria, Spain. The elevation of this town is 54 meters (177 feet) above sea level, and it is located 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) from the municipal capital, Renedo de Piélagos; 21 km (13 miles) from the capital of the province, Santander, and 7 km (4.3 miles) from the second largest city in the community, Torrelavega. In 2015 it had a population of 905 inhabitants (INE INE, Ine or ine may refer to: Institutions * Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, a German nuclear research center * Instituto Nacional de Estadística (other) * Instituto Nacional de Estatística (other) * Instituto Nacional Elec ...). Heritage Among its sights are two palaces, the Llana and the Rueda, as well as two seventeenth century churches, San Julián and San Martín. The stele of Zurita, which is the emblem of the Town Hall of Piélagos, was found here; a Cantabrian stele, it represents a rider, his horse, a squire, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barros (Cantabria)
Barros is a Portuguese and Galician surname. It may refer to: People *Alejandra Barros, Mexican actress * Alessandra Barros (born 1979), Brazilian curler *Alex Barros, Brazilian motorcycle road racer *Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model * Ana P. Barros, American civil and environmental engineer *Antônio Carlos de Mariz e Barros, Brazilian navy officer * César Barros (fencer), Chilean fencer *Augusto Barros (1929-1998), Portuguese painter, also known as Barros, and Augusto Barros Ferreira *Dana Barros, United States basketball player *Diego Barros Arana, Chilean educator, diplomat, and historian * Flavio Barros, Brazilian footballer * Giovanna Barros (born 2001), Brazilian curler * Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Argentine footballer *Gustavo Barros Schelotto, Argentine footballer and twin brother of Guillermo * José Barros, Colombian musician * Juan José Barros, Colombian-born Peruvian footballer * Leila Barros, Brazilian volleyball player *Luis Barros Borgoño, Chilean politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estela De Barros
Estela may refer to: * Estela (Póvoa de Varzim), Portugal * Estela, Buenos Aires, Argentina * CD Estela, a Spanish basketball team People with the given name * Estela Perlas-Bernabe (born 1952), Philippine jurist * Estela de Carlotto (born 1930), Argentine human rights activist * Estela Casas (born 1961), American news anchor * Estela Domínguez (born 1969), Spanish volleyball player * Estela García (born 1989), Spanish sprinter * Estela Giménez (born 1979), Spanish rhythmic gymnast * Estela Golovchenko (born 1963), Uruguayan playwright, actress, and theater director * Estela Inda (1917–1995), Mexican actress * Estela Jiménez Esponda, Mexican women's rights activist * Estela Milanés (born 1967), Cuban softball player * Estela Navascués (born 1981), Spanish long-distance runner * Estela Portillo-Trambley (1936–1999), American poet and playwright * Estela Quesada (1924–2011), Costa Rican lawyer and politician * Estela Renner (born 1973), Brazilian filmmaker * Es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valley Of Buelna
A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over a very long period. Some valleys are formed through erosion by glacial ice. These glaciers may remain present in valleys in high mountains or polar areas. At lower latitudes and altitudes, these glacially formed valleys may have been created or enlarged during ice ages but now are ice-free and occupied by streams or rivers. In desert areas, valleys may be entirely dry or carry a watercourse only rarely. In areas of limestone bedrock, dry valleys may also result from drainage now taking place underground rather than at the surface. Rift valleys arise principally from earth movements, rather than erosion. Many different types of valleys are described by geographers, using terms that may be global in use or else applied only locally. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navarra
Navarre (; es, Navarra ; eu, Nafarroa ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre ( es, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, links=no ; eu, Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea, links=no ), is a foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and Nouvelle-Aquitaine in France. The capital city is Pamplona ( eu, Iruña). The present-day province makes up the majority of the territory of the medieval Kingdom of Navarre, a long-standing Pyrenean kingdom that occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees, with its northernmost part, Lower Navarre, located in the southwest corner of France. Navarre is in the transition zone between Green Spain and semi-arid interior areas, and thus its landscapes vary widely across the region. Being in a transition zone also produces a highly variable climate, with summers that are a mix of cooler spells and heat waves, and winters that are mild for the latitude. Nava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basque Country (autonomous Community)
The Basque Country (; eu, Euskadi ; es, País Vasco ), also called Basque Autonomous Community ( eu, Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa, links=no, EAE; es, Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco, links=no, CAPV), is an autonomous community of Spain. It includes the provinces (and historical territories) of Álava, Biscay, and Gipuzkoa, located in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, bordering on the autonomous communities of Cantabria, Castile and León, La Rioja, and Navarre, and the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The Basque Country or Basque Autonomous Community is enshrined as a 'nationality' within the Spanish State in its 1979 statute of autonomy, pursuant to the administrative acquis laid out in the 1978 Spanish Constitution. The statute provides the legal framework for the development of the Basque people on Spanish soil. Navarre, which had narrowly rejected a joint statute with Gipuzkoa, Álava and Biscay in 1932, became a full-fledged foral autonomous community in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universidad De Oviedo
The University of Oviedo ( es, Universidad de Oviedo, Asturian: ''Universidá d'Uviéu'') is a public university in Asturias (Spain). It is the only university in the region. It has three campus and research centres, located in Oviedo, Gijón and Mieres. History The University of Oviedo was established under the terms and conditions of the will of Archbishop Fernando de Valdés Salas (1483–1568), who was the General Inquisitor under Philip II of Spain, and funded by his estate. In 1574 Pope Gregory XIII granted the papal bull to create the university and in 1604 Philip III issued its charter. It first opened for the teaching of classes on September 21, 1608. The ancient university had three faculties: the Faculty of Arts, which every student had to graduate from in order to continue his training in one of the other; and the Faculties of Theology and Law, sometimes known as the higher faculties. After the French invasion of Spain the ''Historical Building'' of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including the Iberian Peninsula it continued, together with new styles, until the first decade of the 19th century. It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (in the past often referred to as "late Baroque") and Neoclassical styles. It was encouraged by the Catholic Church as a means to counter the simplicity and austerity of Protestant architecture, art, and music, though Lutheran Baroque art developed in parts of Europe as well. The Baroque style used contrast, movement, exuberant detail, deep colour, grandeur, and surprise to achieve a sense of awe. The style began at the start of the 17th century in Rome, then spread rapidly to France, northern Italy, Spain, and Portugal, then to Austria, southern Germany, and Russia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and transitioned into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages. Population decline, counterurbanisation, the collapse of centralized authority, invasions, and mass migrations of tribes, which had begun in late antiquity, continued into the Early Middle Ages. The large-scale movements of the Migration Period, including various Germanic peoples, formed new kingdoms in what remained of the Western Roman Empire. In the 7th century, North Africa and the Middle East—most recently part of the Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
