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Choir lectern of the Seville cathedral (detail). Bartolomé Morel (1565)
The minstrels of Seville Cathedral play motets by Tomás Luis de Victoria (1587-1673)

Several documents link the shipment of a book of motets by Victoria with the group …

Dec. 12, 2025
Damascus. <em>Civitatis Orbis Terrarum<em/>. Georg Braun y Franz Hogenberg (1588)
From Bethsaida to Damascus. Twelfth stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588)

In the last days of October 1588, the caravan in which Francisco Guerrero was travelling …

Dec. 8, 2025
Eruption of 1669. Giacinto Platania
Rogations processions in Catania during the eruption of 1669

Between March and July 1669, Mount Etna experienced its most destructive eruption in two thousand …

Dec. 1, 2025
Cathedral of Valladolid. Project of Juan de Herrera according Fernando Chueca Goitia.
Documents about Tomás Luis de Victoria in the cathedral of Valladolid (1581-1876)

The collegiate church of Santa María de Valladolid became a cathedral during Victoria's lifetime. The …

Nov. 28, 2025

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Nighttime street quarrels and serenades in 14th century Seville

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
05-12-2018

The Ordenamiento given by King Alfonso XI for the city of Seville, in 1337, provides us with an interesting indirect testimony of the nocturnal serenades in Seville in the first …

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Last organ at the convent of La Encarnación in Granada (1836)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
20-11-2018

The inventory made in 1836, when the convent of La Encarnación in Granada was suppressed, included an organ located in the choir loft. This instrument and the tabernacle of the …

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