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A document recording the contribution made to the state for the maintenance of the armies …
Confraternities at the convent of San Antonio de Padua y San Diego in Granada.
The contract drawn up on 11 September 1642 between Roque Pérez de Lara, a resident …
The "Memoria de los libros de canto de órgano que hay en esta santa iglesia …
In 1598, Fray Antonio Tineo contracted the Flemish organ builder Enrique Franco in Seville to build three organs for the Franciscan province of the Santísimo Nombre de Jesús in Guatemala: …
The Tasas de mercaderías printed in Madrid and Granada, in accordance with the royal pragmatic published in Madrid on 13 September 1627, whose purpose was to try to curb speculation …
The confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament of the church of San Justo y Pastor celebrated the feast of the Souls in Purgatory every year on 2 November. As was customary, …
In the 1660s, the Discalced Carmelite Giuseppe di Santa Maria travelled to Goa (India) for the second time. In his chronicle of the trip, he gives an account of the …
In the last quarter of the 16th century, the music of Francisco Guerrero, Tomás Luis de Victoria and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina dominated the soundscape of St Paul's College in …
In 1578, only two years after the foundation of the Portuguese colony of Luanda, the first European-style musical structures had already been created. Probably in its first church, the Missa …
Guiomar Caro's pious endowment exemplifies the memorials instituted in the church of San Andrés, in Granada, at the beginning of the 17th century. They consisted of the vespers service and …
The procession that Seville Cathedral organised on the second day of Rogations (Tuesday before Ascension Day) to the church of San Isidoro was one of the oldest in the annual …
In 1548, Prince Philip set out on a long journey that would take him around what was to become his future dominions. On 20 October, he arrived in Rosas (Gerona) …
In 1514, Pedro Arias Dávila's large expedition set out from Seville to transform the fortress of Santa María la Antigua del Darién (Colombia) into the first colonial urban settlement on …