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Atocha Aliseda
Atocha may refer to: Places * Atocha (Madrid), a central ward (barrio) of Madrid, Spain, in the Arganzuela District * Atocha (Salta), a municipality in Salta Province, Argentina * Atocha, Bolivia, a town in the Atocha Municipality in Bolivia * Atocha, Ecuador, a parish in Ambato, Ecuador * Atocha Municipality, a municipality of Sud Chichas Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia Literature and poetry * "Leaving the Atocha Station", 1962 poem by John Ashbery * ''Leaving the Atocha Station'', 2014 novel by Ben Lerner Ships * , a Spanish galleon that sank in 1622 * , a 19th-century Spanish Navy screw frigate that also bore the devotional name ''Nuestra Señora de Atocha'' Structures * Atocha, former name of Estación del Arte (Madrid Metro), a station on the Madrid Metro * Atotxa Stadium, a football stadium in San Sebastián, Spain * Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Atocha, a church in Madrid, Spain * Madrid Atocha railway station, a central railway station of Madrid, Spain * Paseo At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atocha (Madrid)
Atocha is an administrative neighborhood () of Madrid belonging to the district of Arganzuela. Etymology The Atocha meadow appears as and in the 13th-century Madrid town charter. It has been linked to ("esparto field"), the hermitage of Our Lady of Atocha (derived from ("Mother of God") or ) or (an earthwork with grasses to contain water, here applied to a local brook). Geography Located in the middle of Madrid, the ward is formed by a strip between the avenue '' Calle de Méndez Álvaro'' (south-west), and the north-eastern area of Madrid Atocha railway station, that occupies great part of its territory. The northern border is at the square '' Plaza del Emperador Carlos V'' and the southern one in the avenue '' Calle de Pedro Bosch''. Atocha borders the districts of Centro (north), Retiro (north-east), Puente de Vallecas (south) and with the Arganzuelan wards of Palos de Moguer, Las Delicias and Legazpi. Transport Home of Madrid Atocha, the main railway station of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atocha (Salta)
Atocha is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina. References {{coord, 24, 48, 58, S, 65, 28, 41, W, type:city_source:kolossus-eswiki, display=title Populated places in Salta Province ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atocha, Bolivia
Atocha is a town in the Sud Chichas Province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia. It is the seat of the Atocha Municipality Atocha Municipality is the second municipal section of the Sud Chichas Province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Atocha. It is located within the Andes mountain range. Subdivision Atocha Municipality was created on September ... and Atocha Canton. In 2001 it had 2,033 inhabitants. References External links Atocha Municipality: population data and map (PDF; 625 kB) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atocha Municipality
Atocha Municipality is the second municipal section of the Sud Chichas Province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Atocha. It is located within the Andes mountain range. Subdivision Atocha Municipality was created on September 21, 1963 by Law No. 245 consisting of the following seven cantons: Chocaya, Portugalete, San Vicente, Santa Bárbara, Tacmari, Guadalupe and Chorolque Viejo. The National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia INE lists eight divisions of the municipality of Atocha: Atocha, Chorolque, Chorolque Viejo, Portugalete, Chocaya, Guadalupe, San Vicente, Santa Bárbara. The people The people are predominantly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent.obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo Languages The languages spoken in the municipality are mainly Spanish and Quechua Quechua may refer to: *Quechua people, several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru *Quechuan languages, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ashbery
John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in poetry, the standard tones of the age." Langdon Hammer, chair of the English Department at Yale University, wrote in 2008, "No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery" and "No American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound." Stephanie Burt, a poet and Harvard professor of English, has compared Ashbery to T. S. Eliot, calling Ashbery "the last figure whom half the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible". Ashbery published more than 20 volumes of poetry. Among other awards, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award for his collection '' Self-Portrai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leaving The Atocha Station
''Leaving the Atocha Station'' (2011) is the debut novel by American poet and critic Ben Lerner. It won the 2011 Believer Book Award. Story The first-person narrator of the novel, Adam Gordon, is an American poet in his early 20s participating in a prestigious fellowship in Madrid circa 2004. The stated goal of his fellowship is to write a long narrative poem highlighting literature's role in the Spanish Civil War. Gordon, however, spends his time reading Tolstoy, smoking spliffs, and observing himself observing his surroundings. He also pursues romantic and sexual relationships with two Spanish women, lying to them and others to elicit sympathy and avoid responsibility. He tells several people that his mother has recently died, recounts a friend's experience of a failed attempt to rescue a drowned woman as if it was his own, and uses his (sometimes feigned) lack of Spanish fluency to falsely suggest that his thoughts are too profound and complex to convey outside of his nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuestra Señora De Atocha
''Nuestra Señora de Atocha'' () was a Spanish treasure galleon and the most widely known vessel of a fleet of ships that sank in a hurricane off the Florida Keys in 1622. At the time of her sinking, ''Nuestra Señora de Atocha'' was heavily laden with copper, silver, gold, tobacco, gems, and indigo from Spanish ports at Cartagena and Porto Bello in New Granada (present-day Colombia and Panama, respectively) and Havana, bound for Spain. The ''Nuestra Señora de Atocha'' was named for the Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Atocha in Madrid, Spain. It was a heavily armed Spanish galleon that served as the almirante (rear guard) for the Spanish fleet. It would trail behind the other ships in the flotilla to prevent an attack from the rear. Much of the wreck of ''Nuestra Señora de Atocha'' was famously recovered by an American commercial treasure hunting expedition in 1985. Following a lengthy court battle against the State of Florida, the finders were ultimately awarded sole o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estación Del Arte (Madrid Metro)
(, "Station of Art") is a station on Line 1 of the Madrid Metro and is located in Fare Zone A. It was opened to the public on 26 December 1926. The station is located beneath Charles V plaza, less than 500 meters from the Madrid Atocha railway station which serves commuter and long-distance trains. It is the nearest Metro station to the Paseo del Prado. It is located between the neighborhoods of Embajadores (Centro), Jerónimos (Retiro) and Atocha (Arganzuela). The station was originally named Atocha after the street on which it is located. On 1 December 2018 its name was changed to , which reflects is proximity to multiple museums, including the Prado Museum, the Reina Sofía Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and the Círculo de Bellas Artes The Círculo de Bellas Artes is a private, non-profit, cultural organization that was founded in 1880. Its building, located in Madrid, Spain, was declared ''Bien de Interés Cultural'' in 1981. The CBA is a major multidisciplinary c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atotxa Stadium
Atotxa () was a association football, football stadium in San Sebastián, Spain. It was the home ground of Real Sociedad until 1993 when it was replaced by Anoeta Stadium. It had superseded Ondarreta Stadium 80 years earlier. It had a capacity of 17,000 spectators. History The Municipal Stadium of Atocha was the second stadium that Real Sociedad had in their history, preceded by Ondarreta Stadium, Ondarreta, located in the neighborhood of the old town of San Sebastián. Later the team moved to the Eguia neighborhood. The stadium of Atocha was constructed in the grounds of an old velodrome, built in 1888. It was inaugurated on 5 October 1913 with a match between Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao, Athletic Club Bilbao, which finalized with a 3–3 result. Curiously, the author of the first goal in Atocha was the same as that of the first match in San Mamés Stadium (1913), San Mamés: the mythical player of Athletic Bilbao Rafael Moreno Aranzadi also known by his nickname Pichich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basilica Of Nuestra Señora De Atocha
The Royal Basilica of Our Lady of Atocha or Real Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Atocha is a large church in central Madrid on Avenida de la Ciudad de Barcelona, 1. It is run by the Dominican order.https://www.esmadrid.com/informacion-turistica/basilica-de-nuestra-senora-de-atocha History It is one of the six basilica churches in Madrid, alongside the Basilica of Our Father Jesús de Medinaceli, Madrid, ''Our Father Jesús de Medinaceli'', San Francisco el Grande Basilica, Madrid, ''San Francisco el Grande'', ''St. Michael's Basilica, Madrid'', ''Basílica Hispanoamericana de Nuestra Señora de la Merced'', and ''Church of La Milagrosa''. The buildings on the site have a long history. The original name refers to a lost icon from a chapel which was found among some high grasses -referred to as tocha- during the time of the ''Reconquista''. The site was given to the Dominican order in 1523 by concession of Pope Adrian VI. The old church was in disrepair and rebuilt in the 1890s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid Atocha Railway Station
Madrid Atocha (), also named Madrid Puerta de Atocha–Almudena Grandes, is the oldest major railway station in Madrid. It is the largest station serving commuter trains (Cercanías Madrid, ''Cercanías''), regional trains from the south and southeast, intercity trains from Navarre, Cádiz and Huelva (Andalusia) and La Rioja (Spain), La Rioja, and the AVE high-speed rail, high speed trains from Girona, Tarragona and Barcelona (Catalonia), Huesca and Zaragoza (Aragon), Sevilla, Province of Córdoba (Spain), Córdoba, Málaga and Granada (Andalusia), Valencia, Spain, Valencia, Province of Castellón, Castellón and Alicante (Levante, Spain, Levante Region). These train services are run by Spain's national rail company, Renfe. As of 2019, the station has daily service to Marseille, France. Overview The station is in the Atocha (Madrid), Atocha neighborhood of the district of Arganzuela. The original façade faces Plaza del Emperador Carlos V, a site at which a variety of streets con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
