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Port of Lisbon. <em>Civitatis orbis terrarum</em> (1572)
Slave minstrels in the royal galley (1572-1591)

In the last quarter of the 16th century, different groups of slave minstrels, made up …

July 4, 2022
<em>Don Juan de Austria</em>. Anonymous (c. 1575)
Instruments and music books for the royal galley (1572)

A document in the Simancas Archive provides us with a valuable testimony in which a …

July 1, 2022
Guidon of the confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. Picture by Juan Ruiz Jiménez in the church of San Vicente
Endowment of a group of minstrels for the Viaticum procession in the church of San Vicente in Seville (1680)

In 1680, Inés Jacinta Manrique, “señora del donadío de la Torre de Quadros”, left in …

June 29, 2022
1. Church of San Cristóbal. <em>View of Granada</em> (1563). Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg (1572)
Confraternities at the church of San Cristóbal in Granada

Confraternities at the church of San Cristóbal in Granada.

June 28, 2022

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Summer parties with danses in The Blanquillo or Patín de las damas

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
06-08-2016

The Blanquillo, previously known as "al sitio del Patín" or "Patín de las damas", was a solid defence against the floods of the Guadalquivir River that ran from the Barqueta …

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Saint Anthony's belled pig in Seville (c. 1337)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
02-08-2016

An Ordinance of Alfonso XI (1337?) allows us to incorporate a new biophonic sound and a sound signal into Seville's urban soundscape, the one that was to be generated by …

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