Antonio de Castro y Casaleiz (Havana, 1856 - Madrid, 1918) was a Spanish politician and diplomat who served, in 1898, as Consul-General of Spain in Cairo. He also acted briefly as Spanish Foreign Minister in 1903 and 1905.
Inês de Castro was a Galician noblewoman and courtier, best known as lover and posthumously-recognized wife of King Pedro I of Portugal. The dramatic circumstances of her relationship with Pedro, which was forbidden by his father King Afonso IV, her murder at the orders of Afonso, Pedro's bloody revenge on her killers, and the legend of the coronation of her exhumed corpse by Pedro, have made Inês de Castro a frequent subject of art, music, and drama through the ages.
Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, and a writer on art, author of El Museo pictórico y escala óptica, which contains a large amount of important biographical material on Spanish artists.
Antonio Palacios Ramilo was a Spanish architect. Distinguished by the monumental eclecticism he left as imprint in many of his projects, he helped define the architectural identity of Madrid in the first half of the 20th century.
Pedro de Castro y Figueroa, 1st Duke of la Conquista, 1st Marquess of Gracia Real, KOS, OSJ was a Spanish military officer and viceroy of New Spain from August 17, 1740 to August 22, 1741.
Santa Cruz de Mudela is a municipality of the Spanish Province of Ciudad Real located in the southeastern corner of the autonomous community Castilla–La Mancha.
Opera Soft was a Spanish computer game developer of the Golden Era of Spanish Software of the 1980s. It released many games for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and similar computers in the mid-1980s, but its games were not as popular on the PC. Founded in 1986, the company obtained success with its title Livingstone, supongo in the same year. The game is based on the 19th-century explorer Dr. Livingstone. Within Spain, one of their most popular games was La Abadía del Crimen, based on Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose.
Antonio Olaguer Feliú y Heredia López y Domec (1742–1813) was a Spanish soldier and politician who spent most of his career in South America.
Antonio Machado Álvarez, better known by his pseudonym Demófilo, was a writer, anthropologist, and Spanish folklorist. He was the son of the noted Spanish folklorist, Cipriana Álvarez Durán.
León Cortés Castro is a canton in the San José province of Costa Rica. The head city of the canton is San Pablo.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Santander is a diocese seated in Santander Cathedral in the city of Santander in the Ecclesiastical province of Oviedo in Spain.
Íñigo Fernández de Velasco, 2nd Duke of Frías, Grandee of Spain, and Constable of Castile, was a Spanish nobleman.
The House of Lara is a noble family from the medieval Kingdom of Castile. Two of its branches, the Duques de Nájera and the Marquesado de Aguilar de Campoo were considered Grandees of Spain. The Lara family gained numerous territories in Castile, León, Andalucía, and Galicia and members of the family moved throughout the former Spanish colonies, establishing branches as far away as the Philippines and Argentina.
The House of Castro is an Iberian noble lineage present in the since the Middle Ages in the kingdoms of Castile, Galicia, and Portugal. Though its exact origins are disputed, the House of Castro became one of the most powerful families of the Spanish and Portuguese nobility.
The University of Havana is a university located in the Vedado district of Havana, the capital of the Republic of Cuba. Founded on January 5, 1728, the university is the oldest in Cuba, and one of the first to be founded in the Americas. Originally a religious institution, today the University of Havana has 15 faculties (colleges) at its Havana campus and distance learning centers throughout Cuba.
Pasión y poder, is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Sotomayor for Televisa in 1988.
San Antonio is a district of the León Cortés Castro canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica.
National Secondary Route 226, or just Route 226 is a National Road Route of Costa Rica, located in the San José, Cartago provinces.
National Tertiary Route 336, or just Route 336 is a National Road Route of Costa Rica, located in the San José province.