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The San Cristóbal Church is atop a long staircase up the hill. It is often closed but it offers panoramic views of the city. [4] At the San Cristóbal church the patron saint is celebrated on 25 July with marimbas, food and fireworks. For ten days previously, each of the main neighborhoods has a pilgrimage to the top of the hill.
The earliest sampler extant is a spot sampler, i.e. one having randomly scattered motifs, of the Nazca culture in Peru [5] formerly in the Museum of Primitive Art, New York City. It is estimated to date from ca. 200 BCE –300 CE and is worked in cotton and wool pattern darning on a woven cotton ground.
Blotter art emphasizes psychedelic themes, [6] frequently incorporating repeating patterns in its designs, such as fractal, paisley, moiré, or kaleidoscopic patterns. [4] While early blotter art designs could be simple repetitions of a smiley face or a single word such as PURE [ 1 ] or YES, [ 7 ] the subject matter soon veered toward the ...
San Cristóbal is Spanish for Saint Christopher, reckoned in Catholicism as the patron saint of sailors.. The English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley named it Dassigney's Island in 1684, [2] later shortened to Dassigney or Dassigny Island, [3] in honor of Philip Dassigny, the member of Bartholomew Sharp's crew who translated the Spanish atlas [4] that saved the captain from being hanged for piracy.
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San Cristóbal is a city in the southern region of Dominican Republic. [4] It is the municipal capital of the San Cristóbal province.The municipality is located in a valley at the foothills of the mountains belonging to the Cordillera Central, between the Nigua and Nizao rivers.
Mount San Cristobal is a potentially active stratovolcano at the boundary of the provinces of Laguna and Quezon on the island of Luzon, Philippines. The mountain rises to an elevation of 1,470 m (4,820 ft) above mean sea level [ 1 ] and is one of the volcanic features of Macolod Corridor .
The Puppet Play of Don Cristóbal (Retablillo de Don Cristóbal) is a play for puppet theatre by the twentieth-century Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca.It was written in 1931 and was first performed on 11 May 1935 at the Book Fair in Madrid, in a performance in which Lorca operated the puppets himself. [1]