The Austrian Hans Khevenhüller was ambassador of the emperors Maximilian II and Rudolf II before …
The first stage of the journey to Jerusalem took Francisco Guerrero to Madrid, accompanied by …
Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de Loreto in Granada.
Among the books donated by Plácido Arango in 2019 to the Library of the Real …
Pedro de Quevedo y Quintano, bishop of Orense, was appointed cardinal in 1816. The investiture ceremony took place in that city and in it the boundaries of the religious and …
The Cathedral chapter of Avila agreed in 1591 to reform and fix the itineraries and ceremonies that were to be carried out every year in the three processions of rogatives …
On June 16, 1726, the altarpiece of the chapel of San Antonio de los Portugueses was inaugurated in the Sevillian convent of San Francisco Casa Grande. In the liturgical ceremonies …
One of the main activities of the music chapel of the convent hospital of La Misericordia, in Cádiz, of the order of San Juan de Dios, was the performance of …
In March 1509, Nicolás Pérez, an organ maker based in Toledo, presented to the University of Salamanca an organ he had been commissioned to build. This instrument was destined to …
Read articleIn 1510, Nicolás Pérez built an organ for the chapel of the college of San Ildefonso in Alcalá de Henares, whose composition and caracteristics we know through a sheet containing …
Read articleOn July 6, 1727, the festivities began to celebrate the canonization of St. Aloysius Gonzaga and San Stanislaus Kostka in Salamanca. After the morning transfer of the Jesuit saints to …
In December 1726, Pope Benedict XIII raised the Jesuits Luis Gonzaga and Estanislao Kostka to the altars. In Salamanca, the Society of Jesus carefully prepared the celebrations with the adornment …
The hydraulic mills located on the Genil river bank and inside the city of Granada would be one of the main agents causing noise pollution in these urban and peri-urban …
On 25 July 1516, the council authorities of the city of Plasencia paid tribute to Queen Joan and King Charles I by raising the royal pendon, displaying it in the …