Atocha may refer to:
Places
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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 ...
, a central ward (barrio) of Madrid, Spain, in the Arganzuela District
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, a municipality in Salta Province, Argentina
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Atocha, Bolivia, a town in the Atocha Municipality in Bolivia
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Atocha, Ecuador, a parish in Ambato, Ecuador
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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 ...
, a municipality of Sud Chichas Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia
Literature and poetry
* "Leaving the Atocha Station", 1962 poem by
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 ...
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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 participati ...
'', 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
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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 It had superseded Ondarreta Stadium 80 years earlier.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 ...
, a football stadium in San Sebastián, Spain
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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 ...
, a church in Madrid, Spain
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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 sou ...
, a central railway station of Madrid, Spain
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Paseo Atocha
Paseo Atocha is a pedestrian shopping mall in the Ponce Historic Zone, a historic district in Ponce, Puerto Rico. For over a century the narrow Calle Atocha was bustling retail center opened to vehicular traffic, yet flooded with shoppers. Cong ...
, a historic commercial street turned promenade in Ponce, Puerto Rico
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Puerta de Atocha (city gate)
The Puerta de Atocha was a gate in the city walls of Madrid (known as the Walls of Philip IV). It owed its name to be located in the vicinity of the old hermitage, later Convento de Nuestra Señora de Atocha. It was demolished in 1850. Its locat ...
, a former gate in the city walls of Madrid, Spain
* Our Lady of Atoċja Chapel in
Hamrun
Hamrun ( ) is a town in the Southern Region, Malta, Southern Region of Malta, with a population of 9,244 as of March 2014.
The people
The townspeople are traditionally known as ''Tas-Sikkina'' (literally meaning 'of the knife' or 'those who ca ...
, Malta
Other
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Esparto
Esparto, halfah grass, or esparto grass is a fiber produced from two species of perennial grasses of north Africa, Spain and Portugal. It is used for crafts, such as cords, basketry, and espadrilles. '' Stipa tenacissima'' and '' Lygeum spar ...
, also known as ''atocha'', a perennial grass in northwest Africa and the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula
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Holy Infant of Atocha
Holy Infant of Atocha, ''Santo Niño de Atocha'', ''Holy Child of Atocha'', ''Saint Child of Atocha'', or ''Wise Child of Atocha'' is a Roman Catholic image of the Christ Child popular among the Hispanic cultures of Spain, Latin America and th ...
, a representation of Jesus venerated by Hispanic Catholics in Spain, Latin America, and the southwestern United States
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