Arnedo is the third largest town in La Rioja, Spain. It is located near Calahorra, and has a population of about 15,000 people.
The Catholic Church in Puerto Rico is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the pope in Rome. The 78 municipalities in Puerto Rico have a Catholic church which is located in the downtown area, normally across from the central plaza.
Alanís is a municipality in Seville. In 2005 it had a population of 1,937. It has an area of 280 square kilometers and a population density of 6.9 people per square kilometer. It is located at an altitude of 660 meters and is 106 kilometers from Seville.
Manzanares el Real is a town in the north of the autonomous Community of Madrid. It is located at the foot of La Pedriza, a part of the Sierra de Guadarrama, and next to the embalse de Santillana. In 2020, the town had 8,936 inhabitants.
Cenizate is a municipality in Albacete, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It has a population of 1,143. The former professional cyclist Roque de la Cruz was born here.
The 1715 Treasure Fleet was actually a combination of two Spanish treasure fleets returning from the New World to Spain, the "Nueva España Fleet", under Capt.-General Don Juan Esteban de Ubilla, and the "Tierra Firme Fleet", under Don Antonio de Echeverz y Zubiza. At two in the morning on Wednesday, July 31, 1715, seven days after departing from Havana, Cuba, all eleven ships of the fleet were lost in a hurricane along the east coast of Florida. A 12th ship, the French frigate "Le Grifon", had sailed with the fleet. Its captain was unfamiliar with the Florida coastline and elected to stay further out to sea. The "Grifon" safely returned to Europe.
La Candelaria is the 17th locality of Bogotá, Colombia. A historic neighborhood in the city's downtown, it is the equivalent to the Old City in other cities. The architecture of the old houses, churches and buildings has Spanish Colonial Baroque, and art deco styles. It houses several universities, libraries and museums.
La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles is a historic Catholic church in Los Angeles, California, located on the historic Plaza de Los Ángeles near Downtown Los Angeles. Part of the larger El Pueblo de los Ángeles Historical Monument, the church's origins date to 1784, when the Spanish founded the Nuestra Señora Reina de los Ángeles Asistencia to support nearby Mission San Gabriel Arcángel. By 1814, the asistencia had been abandoned and a new church was founded in its place by Padre Luis Gil y Taboada. The church is one of the oldest buildings in Los Angeles.
The Spanish missions in South America comprise a series of Jesuit Catholic religious outposts established by Spanish Catholics in order to spread the Christian doctrine among the local natives.
Firavitoba is a town and municipality in Sugamuxi Province, a subregion of the department of Boyacá in Colombia.
Benacazón is a city located in the comarca of Aljarafe, in the province of Seville, southern Spain.
Torralba is a municipality in the province of Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It had a population of 191 in 2004.
Nieves, the Spanish plural form of nieve, is a surname and female given name derived from the title of the Virgin Mary Nuestra Señora de las Nieves, meaning "Our Lady of the Snows", a reference to the 4th-century Catholic miracle of a summertime snowfall on the Esquiline Hill in Rome. The surname is most prevalent in Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, United States, and Puerto Rico, where it is most densely concentrated. Within Spain, it is most common in Andalusia, Madrid, Canary Islands, and Galicia. According to Roser Saurí Colomer and Patrick Hanks of Brandeis University, the Spanish surname Nieves is of Asturian-Leonese origin. The Portuguese variant is Neves, and it is most common in Brazil. There is also a Scottish Nieves surname that originated in Nevay, located in Angus, Scotland, and thus can be found in that country of United Kingdom.
Bocos de Duero is a village in Valladolid, Castile-Leon, Spain. The municipality covers an area of 6.34 square kilometres (2.45 sq mi) and as of 2011 had a population of 63 people.
Nuestra Señora is Spanish for Mary, mother of Jesus.
The defunct Convento de Santo Tomás was a set of buildings belonging to the Dominicans, under the patronage of St. Thomas Aquinas, in Madrid.
The Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows is the name given to a chapel excavated in a cave in the ice near the Belgrano II base in the territory it claims as part of Argentine Antarctica. It is one of eight churches on Antarctica.
