Monforte de Lemos is a town and municipality in northwestern Spain, in the province of Lugo, Galicia. It covers an area of 200 km2 and lies 62 km from Lugo. As of 2017 it had a population of 18,783.
Pocitos is an upscale seaside barrio of Montevideo, Uruguay. It borders Buceo to the east, Parque Batlle to the north, Tres Cruces, Cordón and Parque Rodó to the west and Punta Carretas to the south.
O Saviñao is a Concello (council) in the province of Lugo, Galicia belonging to the district of Terra de Lemos. The main town for the council is Escairón.
The Herrerian style of architecture was developed in Spain during the last third of the 16th century under the reign of Philip II (1556–1598), and continued in force in the 17th century, but transformed by the Baroque style of the time. It corresponds to the third and final stage of Spanish Renaissance architecture, whose dominant trend had been towards austerity and minimal decoration. The ornate Plateresque style had given way to classical Purism in the second third of the 16th century. Purism in turn had given way to the geometric simplicity of the Herrerian style.
The Colegio Santa María del Pilar, known also as Colegio Santa María, is a Roman Catholic private primary, middle and high school founded by the Society of Mary in Madrid, Spain. The school campus is one of the largest in central Madrid and its listed chapel, built in the 1950s, is one of the finest examples of early Spanish modern brick vaults.
Rodrigo de Castro Osorio, was Cardinal-Bishop of Zamora (1574–1578) and Diocese of Cuenca (1578–1581), Archbishop of Seville, (1581–1600), a member of the Council of State of Spain and the Supreme Council of the Spanish Inquisition for the reign of Philip II of Spain. Great-uncle of Pedro Fernández de Castro y Andrade, Conde de Lemos. He was closely linked to the city of Monforte de Lemos in Galicia, where he was the founder of the College of Our Lady of Antigua.
The College of Nosa Señora da Antiga is located in the town of Monforte de Lemos, in the Ribeira Sacra. Built in the Herreriano style, the school is often known as El Escorial of Galicia, being one of the few examples of the style in this community.
Parroquia Nuestra Señora de Andacollo, Santiago is Catholic parish in Santiago, Chile dedicated to Our Lady of Andacollo. The parish shares the same city block with Colegio de Nuestra Señora de Andacollo, a school administered, like the parish, by the Congregation of Holy Cross. Holy Cross Sisters serve in the parish as well.
The Basilica and Convent of Saint Peter, formerly known as Basilica of Saint Paul after the school of the same name, is a Catholic church located in the historic centre of Lima, Peru.
The Church of la Natividad de Nuestra Señora is a church located in San Martín de la Vega, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1996.
Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas is a private Catholic school in Madrid, Spain, belonging to the order of La Salle founded in 1892 by Brother Justinus Marie, belonging to the Brothers of the Christian Schools of La Salle. The current director is Juanjo Cerrajero Amat about 2,000 students, compared with 10 who had the opening day.
Our Lady of Remembrance College, Madrid, is an infant through baccalaureate school established by the Society of Jesus in 1880, located in the Chamartín District of Madrid. According to studies by El Mundo in 2007 and 2012, it is one of the best schools in Spain.
The Colegio de Nuestra Señora de los Infantes is a school in the city of Toledo. It was founded in the 16th century by Juan Martínez Silíceo, Archbishop of Toledo and later a cardinal, and was intended to provide a specialist musical education for the cathedral's young singers.
Gloria Fernández Fernández was a Spanish painter born in Monforte de Lemos in 1913. She died in Madrid in 1996. She is included in the Bibliography of Galician Painters. Gloria has exhibited in the Spanish cities of Monforte de Lemos, A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela, Vigo and Madrid. Her work includes still lifes, flowers, portraits, and human figures. She was featured in an extensive exhibit of her works at the Provincial Museum of Lugo. The exhibition and her work are featured in a catalog of the exhibition that includes information about her evolution as an artist. Gloria was one of the pillars of the Monforte de Lemos intellectual community in the 1960s and, according to M. Hermida Balado from her book Lemos: pequeña historia de un lugar con mucha historia, was one of the three notable painters of the province at that time.
The Cabe is a river in the province of Lugo, Galicia (Spain), Spain, tributary of the Sil River. The river is 56 km long and flows through the municipalities of Inicio, Puebla del Brollón, Monforte de Lemos, Pantón and Sober, Lugo. It occupies an areas of 1577 hectares and has contamination problems in some spots in its southern end.
The Arco de Belén was built by Pedro Medina in 1775 and was part of the Convent and Church of Nuestra Señora de Belén located on Calle Acosta in Havana. It is a short tunnel that characterizes the location.
The Church of Our Lady of the Forsaken and of Saint Joseph, known commonly as the Church of the Forsaken, is a Catholic church located between Venezuela Avenue and the Jirón Recuay of the main square of Breña, in Lima, Peru.
The Colegio Menor de San Ciriaco y Santa Paula, popularly known as Colegio de Málaga, is one of the educational centres that made up the former Cisnerian University of Alcalá de Henares, and which currently houses the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Alcalá.
