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...The Alcazar packs in fascinating history, from its Roman foundations to the bursary, in a tower, of the 15th-century House of Castile; it was from here that the gold for Columbus’s first foray into the New...
...“In many ways this seems like a textbook case of art-washing, or the strategic use of the arts as a vehicle for real-estate speculation,” says Maga Alcázar, a community activist from Boyle Heights and doctoral...
...I will often start my visits around here at the impressive Álvaro Alcázar, which specialises in paintings, sculptures and works in paper by contemporary Spanish artists....
...Best of all was a sojourn in Al-Andalus: Carlos Cano’s song about the last Arab ruler of Seville, al-Mu’tamid ibn Abbad, was followed by a setting of the poet-king’s own farewell to the Alcazar and to the...
...About 30 per cent of Barcelona’s bars and restaurants have closed for good, Pallarols said, while that number is 20 per cent in Madrid, according to Antonio Galán Alcázar, president of Madrid’s AMER restaurant...
...I parked outside the walls of the medieval Alcázar and walked along a tree-lined promenade, the Alameda Vieja, towards my hotel on a quiet square beside the hulking form of the 18th-century cathedral....
...Royal inventories made no mention of them until the following century, when they were hanging in the king’s summer apartment in the Alcázar castle in Madrid....
...With its audience siphoned off, the Alcazar, an “art” house known for its high-quality film programming, closed down this past winter, and with it went jobs, tax revenue and a local entertainment venue open...
...Alcazar is owned by a company called D & D London, which also runs high-end restaurants in Britain....
...Alcázar of Seville, Patio de Banderas, 41004 (+34902-559 386; alcazarsevilla.org)....
...My first stop is the Alcázar, the oldest royal palace still in use in Europe and Seville’s most famous attraction....
...But they all pretty much agree that you must go both to the Plaza de España, built for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929, and then to the Alcázar — a beautiful Moorish fort that subsequently became a...
...One VIP collector, Californian Blake Byrne, bought Juan Garaizábal’s “Tower Window” (2012) in the solo projects section (tagged at $18,000, with Álvaro Alcázar gallery)....
...(“It is a festival of water!” he enthused to Clotilde about the Alcázar.)...
...London D & D London, the group behind restaurants such as Alcazar in Paris, Guastavino’s in New York and Le Pont de la Tour in London, is to open its first hotel on Monday....
...Agra ● Itmad-ud Daulah, Agra ● Rambagh Agra ● Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan See www.indiasite.com for more details of these gardens Spain ● Madinat al-Zahra near Cordoba, www.artencordoba.co.uk ● Alcazar...
...IE Business School in Madrid, on the other hand, acts like a not-for-profit, but is actually a for-profit company owned by one man, Diego del Alcázar, Marquis of la Romana....
...Viewed close-to, his Toledo from the Alcazar looks impulsively abstract, and thick paint projects from the canvas with an almost sculptural forcefulness....
...Mr Kelsey joins from Integrated Alternative Investments, where he was a funds of hedge funds manager. ● Christopher Johnson has joined Mercer as a client manager based in London....
...Alcazar is part-owned by Agility, a logistics group active in emerging markets....
...The party ends by a statue of Don Juan, on the edge of the Barrio de Santa Cruz, close to the gardens of the Alcázar....
...Later the same day, Diabaté plays a showcase at the Real Alcázar, Seville’s Royal Palace, a series of courtyards that unfold into myriad chambers and out into sumptuous gardens....
...It encourages speculation on the derivation of the forms of those so-English colleges, conceived at a time when Islam had reached a zenith with the sublime architecture of the Alhambra and the Alcazar in...
...Yet, though the Alcázar was unquestionably a jewel, I left feeling disappointed; the interior of the Giralda had been restored with dark grey bricks and from its roof Seville seemed like a white concrete...
...The previous dean was only 32 when he got the job and the school was set up by Spanish aristocrat Diego Alcazar in 1973 when he was just 23....
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