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Faena Hotel Universe
Faena may refer to *A term in Spanish-style bullfighting *Faena Arts Center Faena Art Center is the cultural center of the Faena District Buenos Aires, a residential and cultural community in the Puerto Madero waterfront in Buenos Aires developed by the Faena Group and opened in September 2011. Alan Faena founded the cent ..., in Buenos Aires, Argentina ** Faena Hotel Buenos Aires * Alan Faena (born 1963), Argentine hotelier and real estate developer * Sebastian Faena (born 1990), Argentine filmmaker and fashion photographer {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faena Hotel Buenos Aires
The Faena Hotel Buenos Aires, formally known as Faena Hotel+Universe, is a five-star hotel in the Puerto Madero section of Buenos Aires. Overview The lot where the hotel sits today was originally purchased in 1902 by Bunge y Born, a leading local agribusiness firm. They had one of the largest wheat mills in the country, which allowed them to establish ''Molinos Río de la Plata'' (a leader in the local retail-foods market). The structure measured 25,000 m2 (270,000 ft2) in indoor area and was built with bricks imported from Manchester. The development of a new port further north after 1911 led to the original docklands' obsolescence, however, and by 1998, the shuttered ''El Porteño'' building (as the historic mill was known locally) had been slated for demolition. Saved from the wrecking ball by local cultural preservation associations, the building was purchased by former fashion designer Alan Faena, who, after a US$40 million investment, opened the Faena Hotel in October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tercio De Muerte
A ''tercio'' (), Spanish for "[a] third") was a military unit of the Spanish Army during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and Habsburg Spain in the early modern period. They were the elite military units of the Monarchy of Spain, Spanish monarchy and essential pieces of the powerful land forces of the Spanish Empire, sometimes also fighting along with the Spanish navy, navy. The Spanish ''tercios'' were one of the finest professional infantries in the world due to the effectiveness of their battlefield formations and were a crucial step in the formation of modern European armies, made up of professional volunteers, instead of conscription, levies raised for a campaign or hired mercenary, mercenaries typically used by other European countries of the time. The internal administrative organization of the ''tercios'' and their battlefield formations and tactics grew out of the innovations of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba during the conquest of Granada and the Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
