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...Mural paintings from the Hermitage of the Vera Cruz de Maderuelo (Room 51C) Finally — but only if you like reverse chronology — a small wonder....
...Interiors have been transformed by the Spanish designer Lorenzo Castillo....
...His wife, Clemencia de la Cruz, is proud to work as a cleaner with the train project. “I’ve never been on a passenger train,” she said. “There are lots of poor people here who will be helped.”...
...We explore the many crevices of La Factoria, regularly listed as one of the best bars in the world. The main room retains the name of a previous establishment on its wall: Hijos de Borinquen....
...“This crisis came to a country that was already deeply polarised and it has deepened the divisions between left and right,” said Lorenzo Bernaldo de Quirós, president of Freemarket, a Madrid-based consultancy...
...Germans are so numerous in Puerto de la Cruz that the town has been twinned with Düsseldorf. Tenerife Broker is selling a five-bedroom villa in Puerto de la Cruz for €3.8m....
...But now he has literally dug in — barricades surround his official residence — together with his wife Rosario Murillo, a writer of mystical poetry who is also his vice-president....
...An upgrade is being planned for the airport at Santa Cruz de la Sierra, to turn it into a regional hub. (The city is the gateway to the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos, a Unesco world heritage site.)...
...“Today is a bleak and sad day but this state crime will not go unpunished,” Mr de la Cruz told demonstrators....
...such as Carlos Cruz-Diez....
...Now we hope they’ll tell us where the young men are,” Felipe de la Cruz, the father of one of the students, told an interviewer....
...Soto’s installation “Nylon Cube”, which seems to make an entire gallery sway, and a shimmering five-metre stripe painting by 90-year-old Carlos Cruz-Diez....
...Aguilar, and with set designs by LA-based street artist Gronk....
...Apart from gruesome scenes of torture and murder, and the predictable presence of Cleopatra, Barack Obama, Penélope Cruz, Jesus at the Last Supper and Tony Blair, it includes a bizarre exhibit of the Goya...
...a mournful “Cristo de la Buena Muerte”....
...Since then, pilgrims have worshipped the Señor de Chalma, a local version of Jesus. The road into Chalma is as much a part of the ritual as visiting the church....
...Seville sojourns For a romantic getaway, stay at: Las Casas del Rey de Baeza, Calle de Santiago, Plaza de Jesús de la Redención, 2, tel: +34 954-561 496 www.hospes.es Las Casas de la Judería Callejón...
...The Medici Curse By Matt Chamings Faber £6.99, 314 pages FT bookshop price: £5.59 In Renaissance Florence, an artist’s apprentice paints a portrait of Lorenzo de Medici’s daughter....
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