A collection of inscriptions located in the two passageways connecting the cloister of San Fernando …
The altar/chapel of San Lorenzo was founded in 1282 by Don Sebastián, archdeacon of Castro. …
The eleventh stage took Francisco Guerrero and Francisco Sánchez from Samaria to Bethsaida, on the …
Bells were one of the first objects that, along with liturgical vestments, gold and silverware, …
The existing musical groups in small population centers are still very little known. They played an important role in the solemnization of civic-religious festivities sponsored by the municipal council and …
In 1606, the cathedral chapter of Puerto Rico wrote to the organist Juan Bautista Vitoria, resident in Seville, to take them an organ that the organero Cristóbal de Aguilera had …
In 1606, the organist Juan Bautista Vitoria was in charge of carrying an organ built in Seville by the organist Cristóbal de Aguilera to Puerto Rico. It was not the …
The first reference to the organ in the church of La Encarnación of Alhama dates from 1514, when this instrument was already played by organist Gonzalo de Guadix. The works …
This event presents information about the House of the Chirimías in Valladolid, which was built at the request of the town hall in 1602. For many years, the sound of …
Read articleIn 1613, a turret of music was inaugurated in the Prado de San Jerónimo, a unique building similar to the one that already existed in Valladolid. From their balconies, the …
The embassy of King Philip III to Persia, headed by García de Silva and Figueroa, entered the city of Isfahan (Iran) on May 1, 1618. The ambassador thoroughly describes the …
Francisco Guerrero stayed for four days in the lodgings that the Franciscans had inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, whose emblematic places he walked in procession and alone on …
The Meninos de Jesus College in Bahia was founded with seven children from the Órfãos Meninos College in Lisbon who arrived at the mission in 1550. To these initial group, …
In July 1556, the Melchor Núñez Barreto expedition landed in Funai (Bungo, currently Ōita, in Japan), where at least three young people arrived from the colleges of Órphãos Meninos in …