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...Santiago Thirty-one years ago, the Chilean company Explora opened its first lodge — a stylish white-walled retreat looking right up at the peaks of Torres del Paine in Patagonia....
...Philip IV commissioned the artist in 1636 to decorate the walls of his hunting lodge, the Torre de la Parada, and Rubens created oil sketches of about 60 scenes....
...Dozens of former prosecutors, judges and reporters have fled the country or been imprisoned, including acclaimed investigative journalist José Rubén Zamora....
...Ignacio Torres from the oil-rich Patagonian province of Chubut, threatened that “not a barrel more” of crude would flow from his territory unless the tax revenues were restored....
...These are shown alongside paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, Valentin de Boulogne and Bartolomeo Manfredi, among others....
...This is the latest date the day has fallen in the year on record UK: Woodland Trust releases its shortlist for tree of the year Paraguay: the inauguration of new president Santiago Peña of the Colorado...
...The luthier behind this revolutionary instrument, Antonio de Torres, called his creation La Leona (The Lioness), for the growl it made when strummed....
...The star product around these parts is the raw-milk goat’s cheese made by Luís Martell and Lucía Torres at Era del Cardón, one of no less than 130 artisan queserías on the island....
...Lomond, covering between seven and 14 miles a day, based at Cameron House, Glencoe House and Inverlochy Castle. the-carter-company.com, nine nights from £4,780 A Pilgrimage route, Portuguese-style The Santiago...
...Stay: A Quinta da Auga, in nearby Santiago de Compostela – a lovely converted 18th-century paper mill that’s been earning its Relais & Châteaux status for almost two decades....
...Did three weeks of bike riding through the urban chaos of Santiago qualify me for a full day hike?...
...Juan Yarur Torres, a Chilean art collector and president of Fundación AMA, a Santiago non-profit art organisation, has commissioned pieces from Leane including a fuchsia brooch, an aquamarine shard necklace...
...Nico La Torre, a Stockholm-based engineering student whose sister Augusta had married Guzmán, claimed Shining Path had declined aid from Russia and China and stole weapons from the Peruvian government....
...Manchester City invested £150m in new players, including €68m on defender Rúben Dias from Portugal’s Benfica and €23m on midfielder Ferran Torres who has scored four goals in six appearances in the Champions...
...No wonder Rubén Blades, whose 1978 Siembra with Willie Colón may still be the best-selling salsa album ever, quit law school and took a job in the Fania mailroom....
...One of the most energetic and thoughtful innovators on this side of the Atlantic has been Santiago Navarro, chief executive of Garçon Wines....
...Santiago Abascal, the party’s leader, made by far the most triumphal appearance of election night, reminding his cheering supporters that only 11 months ago Vox had virtually no elected officials....
...We began and ended at Balmaceda airport, a 140-minute flight from Santiago, where we’d picked up a battered Toyota 4Runner....
...And Ruben Santiago-Hudson here offers a traditional-looking, period-dress staging of Othello backed by a humble, uncluttered colonnade that evokes an Olive Garden franchise more than it does the White House...
...“The dire economic predictions were wrong,” says Ignacio de la Torre, chief economist at Arcano, the investment bank....
...They are drawn to the vast barren seascapes of the huge westerly archipelago and the jagged mountaintop glaciers of Torres del Paine national park....
...I drove here for dinner one night, unprepared for the five kilometres of dirt track leading to this 15th-century mansion in a secluded river valley and the excellent cooking of local boy Rubén Catalán’s...
...The power of the pro-unity demonstrations has come from the fact that they are non-political in inspiration and in favour of reason and dialogue,” says Santiago de Torres, the Catalan chairman of Atrys Health...
...“Most of the daily volume you see trading is coming from algos,” said Santiago Torres Leon of Pathway Agriculture, an investment manager in Geneva....
...del Paine, as well as nights in Santiago and Punta Arenas Photographs: Andrew Carafelli; Getty Images; Craig Brady...
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