Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Zara Home is a company that belongs to the Spanish Inditex group dedicated to the manufacturing of home textiles. It was created in 2003. [2] It has around 408 stores in 44 countries. [3] [when?] The company focuses on retailing various housewares. [4] The headquarters of Zara Home is located in A Coruña, Spain.
Zara was established by Amancio Ortega Gaona in 1975. Their first shop was in central A Coruña, in Galicia, Spain, where the company is still based.They initially called it 'Zorba' after the classic 1964 film Zorba the Greek, but after learning there was a bar with the same name two blocks away, rearranged the letters to read 'Zara'.
Memory Hermitage, also known as the Chapel of Our Lady of Nazaré (Portuguese: Ermida da Memória / Capela de Nossa Senhora da Nazaré), is located on the edge of promontory in Nazaré, Portugal. It is a four-sided chapel decorated with blue and white tiles and has a pyramidal roof.
Through the initiatives of Father José Alves Amorim, in 1994 the Casa das Novenas was remodelled to sell products typical of the region, while the Casa da Cadeia became a museum (the Museu Monográfico dos Ex-Votos da Lapa) dedicated to celebrating the history of the sanctuary. In addition the old college building and Casa das Novenas were ...
Developed over several decades, the religious complex at Sameiro also includes a venue for Mass in the Catholic Church, the Casa das Estampas, the Rector’s House, the Chapel of the Eucharist, the crypt under the church, and a grandiose flight of steps. [8] At the top are monuments to the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Conception.
This included the Convento de Nossa Senhora da Boa Hora (English: Convent of Our Lady of the Good Hour), which was later reconstructed by the Augustine monks in 1756. The royal family too had to abandon the Palácio da Ribeira ( English: Ribeira Palace ), and began living, along the court, in the Quinta de Cima in Ajuda, initially in wooden ...
The hermits were expelled from the convent, and the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição fell under the vigilance of the local authority of the parish of Nossa Senhora dos Anjos of Água de Pau. The Junta Geral then decided to transform the spaces into a lazaretto , in their minutes dated 27 July 1837, but these plans were never realized.
The Convent of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Portuguese: Convento da Ordem do Carmo) is a former Catholic convent located in the civil parish of Santa Maria Maior, municipality of Lisbon, Portugal.