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Academy.https://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20170625_193100.jpg20170625_193100Witth Big History students at Hana Academy.https://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20170625_190429.jpg20170625_190429Witth Big History students at Hana Academy.https://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20170625_181736.jpg20170625_181736What a view at dinner with Seohyung.https://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20170625_181724.jpg20170625_181724What a view at dinner with Seohyung.https://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20170625_181641.jpg20170625_181641What a view at dinner with Minjeong.https://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20170625_181618_001.jpg20170625_181618_001Dinner with Minjeong.https://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20170624_143957.jpg20170624_143957What cool lockers for a science museum!https://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20170624_135455.jpg20170624_135455Lunch with 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The madroño tree produces a berry used in a liqueur. This has been a symbol of Madrid for centuries.2017-01-21T21:18:54+00:00monthlyhttps://lowellgustafson.net/2017/01/19/day-2/https://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/prado08.jpgprado08Las Meninas, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez Velázquez is the painter to the left. The royal couple whom he is painting are reflected in the mirror at the back of the room. The five year old royal daughter is being attended to. Velázquez is wearing the insignia on his chest of a prestigious group (Order of Santiago) to which he was appointed two years after the painting was completed. Maybe the king himself added this to the painting.https://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/prado07.jpgprado07The crucified Christ; Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez.https://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/prado06.jpgprado06The Recapture of Bahía de Todos los Santos; Fray Juan Bautista Maíno. Another military victory.https://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/prado05.jpgprado05The Surrender of Breda; Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez. The glories of defeating the Dutch.https://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/prado04.jpgprado04The Adoration of the Shepherds, El Grecohttps://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/prado03.jpgprado03The Annunciation, El Grecohttps://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/prado02.jpgprado02The Holy Trinity, El Grecohttps://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/prado01.jpgprado01After lunch, I went to the Prado, where I got through the first 12 rooms. No photographs are allowed, so these images are from their website. https://www.museodelprado.es/ This one is the Altar Piece of Archbishop Sancho de Rojas, by Juan Rodríguez de Toledohttps://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/03_01_iglesiadelosjeronimos.jpg03_01_iglesiadelosjeronimosI passed the San Jerónimo el Real (St. Jerome the Royal) Roman Catholic church from the early 16th-century on my way to lunch with Florentino, the head of the department where I will be teaching, and Guillermo, who taught for us at Villanova University this past fall.https://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/02_10_entrance.jpg02_10_entranceI liked these gates.2025-02-28T03:20:12+00:00monthlyhttps://lowellgustafson.net/2017/01/19/first-day-in-madrid/https://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/01_apartmentkitchen.jpg01_apartmentkitchenhttps://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/01_apartmentliving.jpgLiving RoomLiving Roomhttps://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/01a_apartmentbedroom.jpgBedroomhttps://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/01b_apartmentbath.jpgShowerhttps://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/catedraldelaalmudena8.jpgAlmuneda Cathedralhttps://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/catedraldelaalmudena7.jpgAlmuneda Cathedralhttps://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/catedraldelaalmudena4.jpgAlmuneda Cathedralhttps://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/catedraldelaalmudena3.jpgAlmuneda CathedralThe Almuneda Cathedral opened only in 1993.https://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/05_market2.jpgMarket 2These were rather more tempting.https://lowellgustafson.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/05_market.jpgMarketMercado de San Miguel had lots of exotic foods. 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