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Madrid. Anton van den Wyngaerde (1562)
Madrid, first stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588)

The first stage of the journey to Jerusalem took Francisco Guerrero to Madrid, accompanied by …

March 13, 2023
Convent of Loreto with collegiate church of San Salvador at the back. Richard Ford (c. 1831)
Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de Loreto in Granada

Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de Loreto in Granada.

March 12, 2023
Title page. Juan Martínez. <em>Arte de canto llano</em>. (Alcalá: Diego de Angulo, 1565)
An unknown edition of the Arte de canto llano by Juan Martínez (1565)

Among the books donated by Plácido Arango in 2019 to the Library of the Real …

March 10, 2023
Old hall of the old town hall of Écija
Conditions for the contracting of a company of minstrels in the city of Ecija (1565-1569)

On 9/07/1565 the minstrel Gaspar Muñoz, representative of a company of minstrels coming from Marchena, …

March 7, 2023

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Feast of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
May 17, 2019

Two of the most important festivities in the festive calendar of Nasrid Granada were the Breaking of the Fast after Ramadan [Eid al-Fitr] and the Passover Sacrifice [Eid al-Adha], in …

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Prohibition of playing vihuelas to asylees in sacred precincts at the archbishopric of Granada (1572)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
April 30, 2019

The Constituciones Sinodales del Arzobispado de Granada, celebrated by Archbishop Pedro Guerrero on 14 October 1572 and printed by Hugo de Mena in 1573, forbade the asylum seekers in sacred …

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