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The complex adopted the name of San Lázaro on behalf of Lazarus of Bethany, the patron saint of the sick and lepers. From 1586 until the 19th century, Rímac district was known as the neighbourhood of San Lázaro after the temple. [1] During the 1586 Lima–Callao earthquake the complex suffered catastrophic damage. In 1606 the brotherhood of ...
Fuerte de la Caridad; Fuerte de San Lazaro (Fort of Saint Lazarus) Fuerte de San Miguel (Fort of Saint Michael) Fuerte de San Francisco; El Fuerte de Santa Barbara; Fuerte de la Carena; Fuerte Invencible; Fortaleza Ozama, a sixteenth-century castle that overlooks the Ozama River. Fuerte San Gil; Fuerte de San Jose (Fort of Saint Joseph) Fuerte ...
In Cuba, the celebration of San Lázaro on 17 December is a major festival. The date is celebrated with a pilgrimage to a chapel housing an image of Saint Lazarus, one of Cuba's most sacred icons, in the village of El Rincon, outside Havana .
The Chapel of Saint Lazarus (Portuguese: Capela de São Lázaro, also Igreja de São Lázaro e São Roque) is an 18th-century Roman Catholic church located in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The chapel is dedicated to Saint Lazarus and Saint Roch. The chapel was established as a hermitage to treat people with leprosy; it was later used as a quarantine ...
The San Lázaro Roman aqueduct is a Roman aqueduct in the Roman colonia of Emerita Augusta –present-day Mérida, Spain–, capital of the Roman province of Lusitania. It was built during the first century to supply water into the city. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1912. [1]
San Lazaro Tourism and Business Park is the marketing name given to the 16-hectare (40-acre) multiple use site under development by the Manila Jockey Club Investments Corp. in Manila, Philippines. It takes its name from the old San Lazaro Hippodrome, a horse racetrack that stood on the site from circa 1900 to 2003.
Iglesia de Jesús de Miramar is the second largest church in Cuba. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Cristobal de la Habana. It was begun in 1948 and inaugurated on May 28, 1953. It is constructed in the Romanesque-Byzantine style. Its architects were Eugenio Cosculluela (1893–1978) y, Guido Sutter.
El Torreón de San Lázaro is round tower of masonry built on the shore of the Caleta de San Lazaro. [1] The Torreón de San Lázaro is approximately 4.57 metres (15.0 ft) in diameter and 9.14 metres (30.0 ft) high with embrasures along its wall at the intermediate level and a battlement parapet at the third level roof.