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convent de Santa Helena do Monte Calvário. Picture by David Freitas (1960)
Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of Santa Helena do Monte Calvário in Evora

Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of Santa Helena do …

April 21, 2024
<em>View taken from above the bullring</em> (detail). Alfred Guesdon (c. 1855)
Festival organised by the Real Maestranza of Granada on the occasion of the reception of Agustín de Valdivia as an elder brother (1767)

Antonio Soriano, chapel master of the Collegiate Church of El Salvador, composed the march La …

April 17, 2024
Title page. <em>El viage de Hierusalem</em> (1594) [E-Mrae, 14-XI-37]
First Barcelona edition of El viage de Hierusalem by Francisco Guerrero (1594)

First Barcelona edition of El viage de Hierusalem by Francisco Guerrero (1594).

April 12, 2024
Church of San Lorenzo
Will of the ministril Francisco González Dávila (1654)

The will of the ministril and dulcian player Francisco González Dávila provides us with his …

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Saturday salve in the side street of the convent of Jesús y María in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
July 11, 2015

In 1725, a devotional image of Our Lady was placed above a gate that closed off a side street to the Capuchin convent of Jesús y María. Every Saturday afternoon, …

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Commercial activity and bustle in the streets of Granada (c. 1600)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
July 11, 2015

The chronicler Francisco Henríquez de Jorquera provides us with a colourful vision of the city's main commercial hubs and busiest areas, where street cries, the movement of carts and animals, …

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Religious profesion of Melchora de Mesa (1629)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
July 11, 2015

In 1629, Melchora de Mesa professed as a dulcian player in the convent of Santa Isabel la Real in Granada. She remained in this position until her death in 1650.

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