#Ermita de San Anton

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3 June 2002 - the horse show in Jerez and climb up to Carmona

Good morning!  Buenos Dias!

There is unfortunately not much that I remembered between the 3rd and 5th of June 2002, so today's story may cover all three days.

On Monday the 3rd June 2002, my father had an appointment about 10 AM at the NAVSTA base.  We had to pick him up about 3 PM at the southeast entrance of the US Navy base NAVSTA, at Cintura de Fuentebravia and Calle de la Guayaba.  That was the entrance that I even remember back in 1977, walking right out of the base - not knowing any better at age 5, and of course my parents being very consternated, but security there has tightened so much since then.  

That morning we woke up at 7 AM, had breakfast and we took my father to the NAVSTA base checkpoint at the east side, just off A-491.  At the checkpoint, even though everyone had their passports, only my father was allowed in.  We would pick him up from the same entry port about 3 PM.

I had some shopping to do at the Carrefour which was located at Centro Comercial El Paseo.  I bought some extra rolls of 35 mm film and batteries for my camera.  I cannot remember what else I would have bought there.  

Unfortunately that particular evening I cannot remember where we ate supper, I think it may have been in Rota, just southwest of NAVSTA.  

Tuesday the 4th June 2002 we woke up, had breakfast and checked out of the hotel.  We had tickets to the 11 AM performance at the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art.  It is next door to the Bodegas Sandeman sherry production.  The Equestrian art is basically a show of synchronizing up to ten equestrians in a row and marching in an orderly pattern.  Sometimes the horses will use only their hind legs upon direction of the human, and it's kind of a contest to see how long the horse will walk only on their hind legs.  The human riders wear pointy black hats, grey blazers with big black buttons, and black trousers.  In attendance I think there were about five hundred people.  And maybe 100 liters of Sandeman sherry sold that day, if not more.  

We stopped by the Bodegas Sandeman before returning to the car, and I drove along the Duque de Abrames to the A4 and went northbound, past the airport "XRY", where the A4 joined the AP-4 toll road.  I drove along the AP-4, stopping once to use the "aseos" and another time to pay the 5 Euro toll at Las Cabezas de San Juan.  I drove about 120 km/h on the AP-4 until Dos Hermanas, and then I had to take the A-398 to Carmona, where we would spend the night at our last Parador hotel with half-pension.  Carmona is similar to Arcos de la Frontera.  Its city center is on a hill, and those who have never been there before will have some difficulty driving uphill.  I drove to the Parador at Puerta de Marchena.  From there, that was the last time I had driven in Europe until April 2005.

We checked into the Parador, put our luggage in the rooms and then we walked into town for some sightseeing.  Supper would not be ready until past 8 PM.  We saw the Alcázar de la Puerta de Sevilla, Ermita de San Antón, and Plaza Blas Infante.  Some of the buildings along the way looked like the white paint had faded and the grey was poking out.  Going back to the hotel, the view towards Puente Romano and farther east, was very nice.  It had rained earlier that day but it stopped.

By the time 8 PM came around, we went back to the hotel to have supper.  We had the fixed-price menu as part of our half-pension rate.  Of course this included a bowl of gazpacho and diced vegetables.  And I could not say no to the iberian ham, steak or tocino de cielo.  We went to bed around 10 PM.  We would have to catch a plane about 11 AM for Madrid T3 and bring the car back to the airport.

I hope you will join me for tomorrow's adventure.  Please bear in mind that there are a maximum of three stories left and I will turn 30 years old on Friday the 6th June 2002.  

Hasta manana y buenas noches!

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Arrivals & Departures 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828 Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (/ˈɡɔɪə/; Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko xoˈse ðe ˈɣoʝa i luˈθjentes]) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He was also one of the great portraitists of his time.

Goya was born to a lower-middle-class family in 1746, in Fuendetodos in Aragon. He studied painting from age 14 under José Luzán y Martinez and moved to Madrid to study with Anton Raphael Mengs. He married Josefa Bayeu in 1773; their life was characterised by an almost constant series of pregnancies and miscarriages, and only one child, a son, survived into adulthood. Goya became a court painter to the Spanish Crown in 1786 and this early portion of his career is marked by portraits of the Spanish aristocracy and royalty, and Rococo-style tapestry cartoons designed for the royal palace.

He was guarded, and although letters and writings survive, little is known about his thoughts. He suffered a severe and undiagnosed illness in 1793 which left him deaf, after which his work became progressively darker and pessimistic. His later easel and mural paintings, prints and drawings appear to reflect a bleak outlook on personal, social and political levels, and contrast with his social climbing. He was appointed Director of the Royal Academy in 1795, the year Manuel Godoy made an unfavorable treaty with France. In 1799, Goya became Primer Pintor de Cámara (Prime Court Painter), the highest rank for a Spanish court painter. In the late 1790s, commissioned by Godoy, he completed his La maja desnuda, a remarkably daring nude for the time and clearly indebted to Diego Velázquez. In 1800–01 he painted Charles IV of Spain and His Family, also influenced by Velázquez.

In 1807, Napoleon led the French army into the Peninsular War against Spain. Goya remained in Madrid during the war, which seems to have affected him deeply. Although he did not speak his thoughts in public, they can be inferred from his Disasters of War series of prints (although published 35 years after his death) and his 1814 paintings The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808. Other works from his mid-period include the Caprichos and Los Disparates etching series, and a wide variety of paintings concerned with insanity, mental asylums, witches, fantastical creatures and religious and political corruption, all of which suggest that he feared for both his country's fate and his own mental and physical health.

His late period culminates with the Black Paintings of 1819–1823, applied on oil on the plaster walls of his house the Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man) where, disillusioned by political and social developments in Spain, he lived in near isolation. Goya eventually abandoned Spain in 1824 to retire to the French city of Bordeaux, accompanied by his much younger maid and companion, Leocadia Weiss, who may or may not have been his lover. There he completed his La Tauromaquia series and a number of other, major, canvases.

Following a stroke which left him paralyzed on his right side, and suffering failing eyesight and poor access to painting materials, he died and was buried on 16 April 1828 aged 82. His body was later re-interred in the Real Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid. Famously, the skull was missing, a detail the Spanish consul immediately communicated to his superiors in Madrid, who wired back, "Send Goya, with or without head."

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La Ermita de San Antón, también conocida como la Iglesia de San Antón, es una pequeña edificación religiosa ubicada cerca de las ruinas del Monasterio de San Francisco. Fue construida por los primeros esclavos africanos en el año 1502 en honor a Antón Abad, el monje cristiana quien fundó el movimiento eremítico. Esta era una de las tres ermitas de Santo Domingo, las otras dos eran la Capilla de los Remedios y la Ermita de San Miguel. En 1586, esta capilla fue victima de un incendio durante la invasión del corsario ingles Francis Drake, y luego reconstruida. _________________________________________ FOTO DEL DÍA ------------------------------------------------------------------ #anton. #hailsatan #laveyansatanist #antonlavey #laveyan #socratesphotofilms #zona (en Zona colonial) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8wAhz2Hq5W/?igshid=1y1b5ly17tr10

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Arrivals & Departures 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828 Celebrate Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes Day!

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (/ˈɡɔɪə/; Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko xoˈse ðe ˈɣoʝa i luˈθjentes]; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He was also one of the great portraitists of his time.

Goya was born to a lower-middle-class family in 1746, in Fuendetodos in Aragon. He studied painting from age 14 under José Luzán y Martinez and moved to Madrid to study with Anton Raphael Mengs. He married Josefa Bayeu in 1773; their life was characterised by an almost constant series of pregnancies and miscarriages, and only one child, a son, survived into adulthood. Goya became a court painter to the Spanish Crown in 1786 and this early portion of his career is marked by portraits of the Spanish aristocracy and royalty, and Rococo style tapestry cartoons designed for the royal palace.

He was guarded, and although letters and writings survive, little is known about his thoughts. He suffered a severe and undiagnosed illness in 1793 which left him deaf, after which his work became progressively darker and pessimistic. His later easel and mural paintings, prints and drawings appear to reflect a bleak outlook on personal, social and political levels, and contrast with his social climbing. He was appointed Director of the Royal Academy in 1795, the year Manuel Godoy made an unfavorable treaty with France. In 1799 Goya became Primer Pintor de Cámara, the highest rank for a Spanish court painter. In the late 1790s, commissioned by Godoy, he completed his La maja desnuda, a remarkably daring nude for the time and clearly indebted to Diego Velázquez. In 1801 he painted Charles IV of Spain and His Family, also influenced by Velázquez.

In 1807 Napoleon led the French army into the Peninsular War against Spain. Goya remained in Madrid during the war which seems to have affected him deeply. Although he did not vocalise his thoughts in public, they can be inferred from his Disasters of War series of prints (although published 35 years after his death) and his 1814 paintings The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808. Other works from his mid-period include the Caprichos and Los Disparates etching series, and a wide variety of paintings concerned with insanity, mental asylums, witches, fantastical creatures and religious and political corruption, all of which suggest that he feared for both his country's fate and his own mental and physical health.

His late period culminates with the Black Paintings of 1819–1823, applied on oil on the plaster walls of his house the Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man) where, disillusioned by political and social developments in Spain he lived in near isolation. Goya eventually abandoned Spain in 1824 to retire to the French city of Bordeaux, accompanied by his much younger maid and companion, Leocadia Weiss, who may or may not have been his lover. There he completed his La Tauromaquia series and a number of other, major, canvases. Following a stroke which left him paralyzed on his right side, and suffering failing eyesight and poor access to painting materials, he died and was buried on 16 April 1828 aged 82. His body was later re-interred in the Real Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid. Famously, the skull was missing, a detail the Spanish consul immediately communicated to his superiors in Madrid, who wired back, "Send Goya, with or without head."

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Arrivals & Departures - 30 March 1746 Celebrate Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes Day!

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (/ˈɡɔɪə/; Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko xoˈse ðe ˈɣoʝa i luˈθjentes]; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He was also one of the great contemporary portraitists.

He was born to a modest family in 1746 in the village of Fuendetodos in Aragon. He studied painting from age 14 under José Luzán y Martinez and moved to Madrid to study with Anton Raphael Mengs. He married Josefa Bayeu in 1773; their life was characterised by an almost constant series of pregnancies and miscarriages, and only one child, a son, survived into adulthood. Goya became a court painter to the Spanish Crown in 1786 and this early portion of his career is marked by portraits of the Spanish aristocracy and royalty, and Rococo style tapestry cartoons designed for the royal palace.

Goya was guarded, and although letters and writings survive, little is known about his thoughts. He suffered a severe and undiagnosed illness in 1793 which left him deaf. Sick and disillusioned, after 1793 his work became progressively darker and pessimistic. His later easel and mural paintings, prints and drawings appear to reflect a bleak outlook on personal, social and political levels, and contrast with his social climbing. He was appointed Director of the Royal Academy in 1795, the year Manuel Godoy made an unfavorable treaty with France. In 1799 Goya became Primer Pintor de Cámara, the then-highest rank for a Spanish court painter. In the late 1790s, commissioned by Godoy, he completed his La maja desnuda, a remarkably daring nude for the time and clearly indebted to Diego Velázquez. In 1801 he painted Charles IV of Spain and His Family, also influenced by Velázquez.

In 1807 Napoleon led the French army into the Peninsular War against Spain. Goya remained in Madrid during the war which seems to have affected him deeply. Although he did not vocalise his thoughts in public, they can be inferred from his Disasters of War series of prints (although published 35 years after his death) and his 1814 paintings The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808. Other works from his mid-period include the Caprichos and Los Disparates etching series, and a wide variety of paintings concerned with insanity, mental asylums, witches, fantastical creatures and religious and political corruption, all of which suggest that he feared for both his country's fate and his own mental and physical health.

His late period culminates with the Black Paintings of 1819–1823, applied on oil on the plaster walls of his house the Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man) where, disillusioned by political and social developments in Spain he lived in near isolation. Goya eventually abandoned Spain in 1824 to retire to the French city of Bordeaux, accompanied by his much younger maid and companion, Leocadia Weiss, who may or may not have been his lover. There he completed his La Tauromaquia series and a number of other, major, canvases. Following a stroke which left him paralyzed on his right side, and suffering failing eyesight and poor access to painting materials, he died and was buried on 16 April 1828 aged 82. His body was later re-interred in the Real Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid. Famously, the skull was missing, a detail the Spanish consul immediately communicated to his superiors in Madrid, who wired back, "Send Goya, with or without head."