Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work considered as the first modern novel. The novel has been labelled by many well-known authors as the "best book of all time" and the "best and most central work in world literature".
Alcázar de San Juan is a city and municipality of Spain located in the province of Ciudad Real, autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha. It lies on the plain of La Mancha. From the 13th to the 19th century the history of Alcázar is strongly linked to the Grand Priory of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. The city became a railway hub in the 19th century.
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg y Ottín was a Spanish Jesuit, polymath and mystic.
Ventura Ruiz Aguilera (1820–1881) was a Spanish lyric poet, called "the Spanish Béranger.”
Juan López de Hoyos (1511–1583) was a Spanish schoolmaster and author who lived during the Renaissance. He is most noted today for having been the only known the teacher of Miguel de Cervantes, whom he calls "my beloved disciple". He also edited the volume in which Cervantes' first published works (poems) appeared, a commemorative work on the life of Philip II of Spain's wife, Elisabeth of Valois.
David Trullo is a Spanish visual artist and Photographer, he was artist in residence in the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2002) and selected in Backlight International Triennial for Photography, Tampere, Finland (2005).
Mario Escudero, was one of a handful of Spanish flamenco guitar virtuosos who, following on the footsteps of Ramon Montoya, helped spread flamenco beyond their Spanish homeland when they migrated to the United States in the early 1950s. Along with others such as Sabicas, Carlos Montoya and Juan Serrano, Escudero helped forge the viability of solo flamenco guitar as a concert instrument, with lauded performances at New York's Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and other venues. Invited to perform at the White House for President John F. Kennedy, Escudero was counted among the best in his era; Ramón Montoya called him "the best flamenco guitarist of this new generation."
Enrique Colom Costa is a Spanish-born naturalised Chilean Catholic priest and theologian.
Mosè Giacomo Bertoni (1857–1929), known in Spanish as Moisés Santiago Bertoni, was an Italian-speaking Swiss-Paraguayan naturalist, botanist and anarchist writer. While conducting research in eastern Paraguay in 1899, he was the first to describe Stevia.
María Asunción Balaguer Golobart was a Spanish actress. She appeared in more than 100 films and television shows from 1952 to 2016. In 1983, she played El barón, by Leandro Fernández de Moratín. In 1984, she played La cena del rey Baltasar, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
The 1833 territorial division of Spain divided the country into provinces, in turn classified into "historic regions". This division was followed by the ensuing creation of provincial deputations, the government institutions for most of the provinces, remaining up to this date. Nearly all of the provinces retain roughly or precisely the 1833 borders. Conversely, many of the historic regions correspond to present-day autonomous communities.
Juan Cobo OP was Spanish Dominican missionary, diplomat, astronomer and sinologist.
Sebastián Durón was a Spanish composer.
Manchuela or La Manchuela is a comarca located in Castile-La Mancha and Valencian Community, Spain.
The Doctrina Christiana were two early books on the catechism of the Catholic Church, both published 1593 in Manila, Philippines. These are two of the earliest printed books in the Philippines.
Las Pedroñeras is a small town and municipality in the province of Cuenca, in the central region of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, southwestern Spain.
Asunción Lavrin is a historian and author with more than 100 publications on topics of gender and women's studies in colonial and twentieth century Latin America and religion and spirituality in Colonial Mexico. She is professor emerita at Arizona State University. Lavrin is the daughter-in-law of the artist Nora Fry Lavrin. She has two children, Cecilia and Andy, and two grand children, Erik and Nora.
Cuatro Caminos is an administrative neighborhood of Madrid belonging to the district of Tetuán. It has an area of 1.193509 km2 (0.460816 sq mi). As of 1 February 2020, it has a population of 35,395. It was created as slum of the north of the city, on the east side of the Road of France, currently the calle de Bravo Murillo.
Blanca de los Ríos Nostench was a Spanish writer and painter.
El corazón del océano is a Spanish period drama television series that originally aired on Antena 3 from January to March 2014. It stars Hugo Silva, Ingrid Rubio, Clara Lago and Álvaro Cervantes, among others.
