Il castello di Culzean è un castello situato nel villaggio scozzese di Culzean, nei dintorni di Maybole, nell'Ayrshire Meridionale .
Il castello venne costruito nella forma attuale tra il 1777 e il 1792 dall'architetto Robert Adam sulle fondamenta di un preesistente castello del XVI secolo. L'edificio era la residenza dei conti di Cassilis ed è ora di proprietà del National Trust for Scotland.
Si tratta di uno tra i castelli scozzesi più visitati. Il parco che lo circonda, il Culzean Country Park, divenne nel 1969 il primo parco pubblico situato in un'area rurale della Scozia.
Coventry Transport Museum is a transport museum, located in Coventry city centre, England.
It houses the largest collection of British-made road transport held in public ownership. It is located in Coventry because the city was previously the centre of the British car industry and the birthplace of the bicycle. There are more than 240 cars and commercial vehicles, 100 motorcycles, 200 bicycles.
As of June 30, 2019, Coventry Transport Museum is no longer free admission. Prices for adults will be £14, concessions will be £10.50 and juniors will be £7 with special prices for families. Admission to the museum is still free for Coventry residentsThe ever-changing temporary exhibitions feature motor cars, commercial vehicles, cycles and motorcycles from the museums own collection and beyond. The museum offers activities ranging from engineering challenges to scientific experiments.
The museum is also home to a 60 year old Vintage Sleigh Ride, that has been popular in the city for generations of local residents.
It has a full-time archive department, which deals with an array of historical items, and offers a public enquiry service answering questions and finding items and information. Visitors need to contact the museum prior to visiting should they wish to access the archives, or speak to a curator.
The Countess of Chester is the main NHS hospital for Chester and its surrounding area. It currently has 625 beds, general medical departments and a 24-hour accident and emergency unit. It is managed by the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, which was one of the first Foundation Trusts, formed in 2004.
Coughton Court is an English Tudor country house, situated on the main road between Studley and Alcester in Warwickshire. It is a Grade I listed building.
The house has a long crenelated façade directly facing the main road, at the centre of which is the Tudor Gatehouse, dating from 1530; this has hexagonal turrets and oriel windows in the English Renaissance style. The gatehouse is the oldest part of the house and is flanked by later wings, in the Strawberry Hill Gothic style, popularised by Horace Walpole.
The Conway Public Library serves the town of Conway, New Hampshire. It is located at 15 Greenwood Avenue in Conway village, in an architecturally distinguished Classical Revival building built in 1900 as a gift to the town from Sarah and Lydia Jenks. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
La chiesa di San Giovanni Battista della Calza è un luogo di culto cattolico facente parte del complesso della Calza, nato nel 1362 come Ospedale di San Giovanni Battista, che si trova in piazza della Calza, dirimpetto a Porta Romana, nel quartiere di Oltrarno a Firenze.
Il Sacro Convento di San Francesco in Assisi, sorge nella città serafica accanto all'omonima basilica la cui costruzione fu inaugurata da papa Gregorio IX il 17 luglio 1228, all'indomani della canonizzazione del Poverello. L'accesso principale è dalla piazza inferiore di San Francesco.
Una fonte quattrocentesca motiva l'attributo "sacro" al fatto che il convento - cosa certamente singolare - sarebbe stato consacrato insieme alla basilica da papa Innocenzo IV nel 1253.
Nell'anno 2000, insieme ad altri siti francescani del circondario, il complesso monumentale costituito dalla Basilica e dal Sacro Convento è stato inserito nella Lista del patrimonio dell'umanità dell'UNESCO.
Il monastero de las Descalzas Reales , conosciuto anche più semplicemente come Las Descalzas Reales, è un monastero di monache di clausura, dell'ordine delle Clarisse, che si trova a Madrid.
Il monastero, fondato nel 1559 da Giovanna d'Austria, figlia di Carlo V, infanta di Spagna e arciduchessa d'Austria, sorella di Filippo II di Spagna e madre del futuro re di Portogallo, Sebastiano I, è ubicato nell'omonima piazza di Madrid, a poca distanza dalla centralissima Puerta del Sol.
Come il monastero reale dell'Incarnazione, l'edificio ospita importanti opere d'arte, gran parte delle quali visitabili dal pubblico, ed è uno dei più importanti luoghi religiosi di Madrid.
Xàtiva in valenciano e Játiva in castigliano, è un comune spagnolo di 29.386 abitanti situato nella comunità autonoma Valenciana.
È un'antica cittadina capitale della comarca della Costera, ai piedi della Sierra de Aguyas, a 115 m s.l.m. nella Valle del fiume Albaida. È collegata con autostrada e ferrovia a Valencia da cui dista 47 km.
La chiesa di Sant'Antonino martire, vulgo Sant'Antonin, è un edificio religioso della città di Venezia, situato nel sestiere di Castello lungo la salizada omonima.
Anticamente parrocchiale, quindi vicariale dipendente da San Giovanni in Bragora, oggi, benché rimanga proprietà del patriarcato di Venezia, è chiusa al culto e ospita periodicamente mostre di arte contemporanea. La cappella centrale, invero, può essere ancora utilizzata per le celebrazioni.
García Ordóñez García anche in spagnolo, in galiziano e in asturiano, Garcia, in catalano e in portoghese, Garzia in aragonese e Gartzia, in basco è stato un militare spagnolo, signore di Nájera dal 1072 al 1076 e conte di Nájera, Grañón e di Calahorra dal 1076 alla sua morte.
L'Isola Bella è situata nel lago Maggiore, fa parte del gruppo delle cosiddette Isole Borromee e si trova nel golfo dedicato alla nota famiglia che ancora ne ha la proprietà, a circa 400 metri al largo di Stresa. Misura 320 metri di lunghezza e 180 di larghezza ed è in gran parte occupata dal giardino all'italiana del palazzo Borromeo, che occupa la costa nord-occidentale dell'isolotto.
Jacques Gelman was a producer of Mexican films and a collector of Mexican Art.
Gelman was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia from a rich noble Jewish family who emigrated in Germany during the October revolution . During the 1920s, he worked as a still photographer in Europe at a motion picture studios, and became a distributor of French films. He arrived in Mexico just before the outbreak of World War II, and as a result of the conflict, found himself stranded there. In 1943, he became the third partner of Posa Films, along with Mario Moreno and Santiago Reachi Fayad. The company's prime asset was Moreno's comedic talent, and the three producers crafted and marketed the image of Cantinflas.
It was Gelman who proposed the recreation of European classics as a way to appeal to audiences outside Latin America. Los tres mosqueteros and Romeo y Julieta were produced during this period, and Los tres mosqueteros was selected to be screened at the first Cannes Film Festival in 1946. The endorsement of Charlie Chaplin secured the feature's billing, but in the eyes of French critics, it failed to live up to Chaplin's proclamation that Moreno was the leading comic of the era. The French people, however, were not as hostile to "Cantinflas", seeing in him a Mexican version of their Fernandel. In 1958, a rift between Gelman and Reachi concerning some wrongdoing in contracts with Columbia Pictures by Gelman and Moreno, allowed Gelman to produce the film without Reachi as a Producer. dubbing into French over the objections of Reachi who advise him about the possible poor reception of Moreno's dialect to the Europeans. The imitative efforts at universalize failed to appeal to non-Spanish-speaking audiences.
Gelman stood beside Moreno throughout his career, accompanying him during the filming of Around the World in 80 Days and to the Golden Globe Awards ceremony. When the three partners disbanded in 1960 over the creation of Pepe, As Reachi formed a new company named Posa Films Internacional, S.A. 1959, all assets of Posa Films, S.A and its obligations, was transferred to the new company 1961. After Reachi retired as Producer, President and partner of Posa Films INTERNACIONAL S.A. Gelman had the opportunity to change his status as a Manager to a new Producer of Cantinflas movies..
Jacques Gelman died on July 22, 1986 in Houston, Texas where he was undergoing a heart operation.
He and his wife Natasha were avid collectors of Mexican art, and became its patrons when they commissioned Diego Rivera to paint her portrait. Mexican painter Gunther Gerzso, a friend of Gelman, painted his portrait and gave it to him as a gift. Upon Mrs. Gelman's death in 1998, their collection was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has since been exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum and New York City's Museo del Pueblo. A great part of their collection is also on exhibit in the newly founded museum "Muros" in Cuernavaca, following Natasha Gelman's wish.
Friedrich Lippmann was a German art historian and director of the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin State Museums, noted for his work on Dürer, Holbein and Italian 15th-century woodcuts. Max Jakob Friedländer, who was later to become the noted scholar Early Netherlandish painting and the Northern Renaissance, worked under Lippmann in 1891 as a volunteer assisting with Lippmann's graphics collection.
