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Comarca of Antas de Ulla

Antas de Ulla (Galician pronunciation: [ˈantaz ðe ˈuʎa]), is a municipality in the province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain. It begins in the territory of the Ulla river, which marks the boundaries of the municipality with the neighboring municipalities of Monterroso and Palas de Rey, municipalities with which make up the comarca of Ulloa.

Location[link]

It is 45 kilometers from the capital of the province, connecting it through the national highway (LU-640) that unites Vegadeo with Pontevedra. The municipality of Antas de Ulla is marked by the Sierra del Monte Farelo (to the south) and the Ulla river, which originates in its territory and runs south-north-west. This configuration provides orographic Antas de Ulla a wealth of hunting and fishing of particular importance, while marking a climate of high rainfall with moderate temperatures. This contributes to the fertility of its arable land suitable and simultaneously for its own rich forest of Galicia interior (forests of chestnut, oak, Galician pine, etc.).

Economy[link]

The municipality's economy is mainly based on agriculture and livestock, with an industry closely linked to the primary sector and services primarily concentrated in the capital city. This capital was known until the mid-twentieth century as Seoane, although the present name of the municipality previously had this name.

One of the attractions in the town for summer is the municipal sports complex Castro de Seoane, equipped with various sports facilities among which are modern pools specifically designed for the enjoyment of children.

The 10th of each month marks the fair or market, with a significant recovery in recent years.

Gastronomy[link]

Particularly notable are the Antas breads, made and kneaded by artisans in wood ovens with wheat flour in the country. Derivatives of this bread include the excellent quality of the pies, with different fillings to the tastes of the consumer, fillings that include meat, cod, tuna and the liscos (bacon bits). Also in gastronomy aspect there is the famous quality of meat, both beef and pork, and cheese, with cheese makers more integrated in the Arzúa-Ulloa origin denomination. Nothing negligible brings about horticultural products obtained by traditional agriculture.

Festivals[link]

• San Xoan (June 24)
• San Cristovo (third Sunday in July)
• Os Remedios (September 8)

Civil parishes[link]

• Agüela (San Mamede)
• Alvidrón (Santa María)
• Amoexa (Santiago)
• Antas (San Xoán)
• Arbol (Santalla)
• Arcos (Santa María)
• Areas (Santa Cristina)
• Barreiro (San Cibrao)
• Casa de Naia (Santa María)
• Castro de Amarante (Santo Estevo)
• Cervela (San Miguel)
• Cutián (San Xoán)
• Cibreiro (San Miguel)
• Dorra (Santiago)
• Facha (San Xiao)
• Olveda (Santa María)
• Peibás (San Lourenzo)
• Queixeiro (San Pedro)
• Reboredo (Santiago)
• Rial, O (Santo André)
• San Fiz de Amarante (San Fiz)
• San Martiño de Amarante (San Martiño)
• Santa Mariña de Amarante (Santa Mariña)
• Santiso (Santalla)
• Senande (San Miguel)
• Terra Chá (San Xurxo)
• Vilanuñe (San Salvador)
• Vilapoupre (San Martiño)

v t e Municipalities in the province of Lugo Abadín Alfoz Antas de Ulla Baleira Baralla Barreiros Becerreá Begonte Bóveda Burela Carballedo Castro de Rei Castroverde Cervantes Cervo Chantada O Corgo Cospeito Folgoso do Courel A Fonsagrada Foz Friol Guitiriz Guntín O Incio Láncara Lourenzá Lugo Meira Mondoñedo Monforte de Lemos Monterroso Muras Navia de Suarna Negueira de Muñiz As Nogais Ourol Outeiro de Rei Palas de Rei Pantón Paradela O Páramo A Pastoriza Pedrafita do Cebreiro A Pobra do Brollón Pol A Pontenova Portomarín Quiroga Rábade Ribadeo Ribas de Sil Ribeira de Piquín Riotorto Samos Sarria O Saviñao Sober Taboada Trabada Triacastela O Valadouro O Vicedo Vilalba Viveiro Xermade Xove

Coordinates: 42°46′52″N 7°53′31″W / 42.781°N 7.892°W / 42.781; -7.892

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Antas
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Antas Location in Spain.
Coordinates: 37°14′N 1°55′W / 37.233°N 1.917°W / 37.233; -1.917Coordinates: 37°14′N 1°55′W / 37.233°N 1.917°W / 37.233; -1.917
Country	Spain
Community	Andalusia
province	Almería
Comarca	Levante Almeriense
Government
• Mayor	Isabel Belmonte Soler
Area
• Total	100 km2 (40 sq mi)
Elevation	108 m (354 ft)
Population (2010)
• Total	3,389
• Density	34/km2 (88/sq mi)
Demonym	Antenses
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Website	Official website

Antas is a municipality in the province of Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.

The mountains of the Filabres roll down in undulating slopes at their north eastern end and here, o­n a fertile plain, lies Antas. The river, now usually dry, has carved a ravine through the soft sandstone, where birds nest in the holes in the cliffs. All around Antas there are numerous large orange and lemon groves, and other fruits and vegetables are grown o­n this highly cultivated area. The local market is known in the area for the quality of its produce.

During the 1960s, the male population in Antas far exceeded the female one. Spinsters and widows were brought in from the province of Murcia and duly integrated into the society.

Main sights[link]

Antas was the centre of the El Argar prehistoric culture. The remains of Neolithic and Bronze Age man can be seen in various protected sites around the town. Roman and Medieval remains have also been found here, such as the remains of an aqueduct that lie beside the road o­n the outskirts of the town.

The Hermitage of the “Virgin of the Cabeza” is dedicated to the Patron Saint of Antas and lies outside the town o­n the top of a hill. It dates probably from the 16th century and was built in the shape of a vaulted Latin cross.

Culture[link]

The main celebration of the locality is the fiesta of the Virgin of the same name and o­n 8 September every year her image is taken from the church to the Hermitage where she is offered floral tributes after the pilgrimage. In the middle of Lent, the people of Antas also celebrate Spring with the pagan ritual of “killing the old women”, they gather o­n the nearby hillside called the Ridge of María and animated by the town band, proceed to throw sweets at the local grandmothers!

Another event in the calendar of Antas are the fiestas held around 15 August.

External links[link]

• Antas Tourist information (English)

v t e Municipalities of the province of Almería Abla Abrucena Adra Alboloduy Albox Albanchez Alcolea Alcudia de Monteagud Alcóntar Alhabia Alhama de Almería Alicún Almería Almócita Alsodux Antas Arboleas Armuña de Almanzora Bacares Bayarque Bayárcal Beires Benahadux Benitagla Benizalón Bentarique Berja Bédar Canjáyar Cantoria Carboneras Castro de Filabres Chercos Chirivel Cuevas del Almanzora Cóbdar Dalías El Ejido Enix Felix Fines Fiñana Fondón Garrucha Gádor Gérgal Huécija Huércal de Almería Huércal-Overa Íllar Instinción La Mojonera Laroya Las Tres Villas Los Gallardos Lubrín Lucainena de las Torres Laujar de Andarax Líjar Lúcar Macael María Mojácar Nacimiento Níjar Ohanes Olula de Castro Olula del Río Oria Padules Partaloa Paterna del Río Pechina Pulpí Purchena Rioja Roquetas de Mar Rágol Santa Cruz de Marchena Santa Fe de Mondújar Senés Serón Sierro Somontín Sorbas Suflí Tabernas Taberno Tahal Terque Turre Turrillas Tíjola Uleila del Campo Urrácal Velefique Vera Viator Vélez-Blanco Vélez-Rubio Vícar Zurgena

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Roberto Vidal (7 September 1925, Lima, Peru, died 26 April 1989) was an early leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Peru who was the first stake president in that country.

Vidal was baptized along with his wife Elizabeth in 1959 into the LDS Church, less than two years after LDS Church missionaries first came to Peru.

Vidal was a banker by profession. He would eventually serve as a senior vice president of a major bank in Peru.

In the LDS Church, Vidal served as a branch president, district president and then as a counselor in the presidency of the Andes Mission, which had jurisdiction over Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia.

In February 1970, the first stake in Peru, which had just over 10,000 members, was organized with Vidal as president. The stake was organized by church Apostle Gordon B. Hinckley and A. Theodore Tuttle.

Vidal later served as a Regional Representative of the Twelve starting in 1976.^[1] From 1985 to 1988, Vidal was the president of the Peru Trujillo Mission of the church.^[2] In 1988 he was serving as the recorder for the Lima Peru Temple. Vidal died in 1989.

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Allen Litster, in the Andes,” Liahona, May 1997, p. 41
• Church News, February 6, 1988
• Short History of LDS Church in Peru

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Juan Ruiz (ca. 1283 – ca. 1350), known as the Archpriest of Hita (Arcipreste de Hita), was a medieval Spanish poet. He is best known for his ribald, earthy poem, Libro de buen amor (The Book of Good Love).

Biography[link]

Origins[link]

He was born either in Alcalá de Henares, or perhaps Alcalá la Real, a village of Jaén, then part of al-Andalus, or Muslim Spain. Little is known about him today, save that he was a cleric and probably studied in Toledo. Though his birth name is known to be Juan Ruiz, he is widely referred to by his title of "archpriest of Hita."

Imprisonment[link]

According to his own book, he was imprisoned for years, thought to be between 1337 to 1350, as punishment for some of his deeds (if the poem is any guide, they were quite inconsistent with his position as priest). However, the poem has long been considered as pseudo-autobiography and the verses that mention his imprisonment appear at the end of the book and are generally thought to have been added after the fact. One of his poems states that he was imprisoned on the order of Gil Albornoz, archbishop of Toledo. It is not known whether he was sentenced for his irregularities of conduct, or on account of his satirical reflections on his ecclesiastical superiors. Nor is it possible to fix the precise date of his imprisonment. Albornoz nominally occupied the see of Toledo from 1337 to 1368, but he fell into disgrace in 1351 and fled to Avignon. A consideration of these circumstances points to the probable conclusion that Ruiz was in prison from 1337 to 1350, but this is conjecture. What seems established is that he finished the Libro de buen amor in 1343. Indeed, almost nothing is known about the author(s) of the poem or if he was even named Juan Ruiz. One scholarly study found hundreds of clerics in mid-fourteenth-century Castile named Juan Ruiz.^[1] The name appears to be the equivalent of John Smith and may have been chosen to represent everyman.

Death[link]

It has been estimated that he died around 1350 (presumably in prison); by 1351, he no longer held the title of archpriest of Hita.

The Book of Good Love[link]

Libro de Buen Amor (Book of Good Love) is a massive and episodic work that combines poems to Jesus and Mary; Ruiz's unrequited love, and fables. The poem itself is 1,728 stanzas long). The breadth of the writer's scope, and the exuberance of his style have caused some to term him "the Spanish Chaucer." Speculation regarding whether or not the book was actually an autobiography is incessant.

His language is characterized by its richness and its sermon-like tendency to repeat the same concept in several different ways. Noted for being very creative and alive, his work utilizes colloquial, popular vocabulary. His natural gifts were supplemented by his varied culture; he clearly had a considerable knowledge of the colloquial (and perhaps also of literary) Arabic widely spoken in the Spain of his time; his classical reading was apparently not extensive, but he knew by heart the Disticha of Dionysius Cato, and admits his indebtedness to Ovid and to the De Amore ascribed to Pamphilus; his references to Blanchefleur, to Tristan and to Yseult, indicate an acquaintance with French literature, and he utilizes the fabliaux with remarkable deftness; lastly, he adapts fables and apologues from Aesop, from Pedro Alfonso's Disciplina clericalis, and from medieval bestiaries.

All these heterogeneous materials are fused in the substance of his versified autobiography, into which he intercalates devout songs, parodies of epic or forensic formulae, and lyrical digressions on every aspect of life. He shows a profound knowledge of human emotion and is able to strike a balance between gentleness and brazenness in his shrewd and frequently ironic writing. Ruiz, in fact, offers a complete picture of picaresque society in the most complex and rich cultural geography of Europe during the first half of the 14th century, and his impartial irony lends a deeper tone to his rich coloring. He knows the weaknesses of both clergy and laity, and he dwells with equal complacency on the amorous adventures of great ladies, on the perverse intrigues arranged by demure nuns behind their convent walls, and on the simpler instinctive animalism of country lasses and Moorish dancing-girls.

In addition to the faculty of genial observation Ruiz has the gift of creating characters and presenting types of human nature: from his Don Furón is derived the hungry gentleman in Lazarillo de Tormes, in Don Melón and Doña Endrina he anticipates Calisto and Melibea in the Celestina, and Celestina herself is developed from the Trotaconventos of Ruiz. Moreover, Ruiz was justly proud of his metrical innovations: the Libro de buen amor is mainly written in the cuaderna via modelled on the French alexandrine, but he imparts to the measure a variety and rapidity previously unknown in Spanish, and he experiments by introducing internal rhymes or by shortening the fourth line into an octosyllabic verse; or he boldly recasts the form of the stanza, extending it to six or seven lines with alternate verses of eight and five syllables. But his technical skill never sinks to triviality. All his writing bears the stamp of a unique personality, and, if he never attempts a sublime flight, he conveys with contagious force his enthusiasm for life under any conditions — in town, country, vagabondage or gaol.

Johan Ruys (original spelling), arcipreste de la Hita, was imprisoned by the Inquisition for a few years due to his one-sided love affair with a lady of the nobility. In our modern society, he would have been charged with "harassment". He is said to have died 7 or 8 years after his release from the Inquisition's holding facility.

There are today three manuscripts of the Libro de Buen Amor. The Salamanca version, denoted S, resides in Madrid's Biblioteca Real and is considered the best of the three codices. The other two are the Academia Española version, known as Gayoso (G), and the Toledo (T) manuscript.

Legacy[link]

Ruiz's influence is visible in El Corbacho, the work of another jovial goliard, Alphonso Martinez de Toledo, arch-priest of Talavera, who wrote more than half a century before the Libro de buen amor was imitated by the author of the Celestina. Ruiz is mentioned with respect by Santillana, and that his reputation extended beyond Spain is proved by the surviving fragments of a Portuguese version of the Libro de buen amor. By some strange accident he was neglected, and apparently forgotten, till 1790, when an expurgated edition of his poems was published by Tomás Antonio Sanchez; from that date his fame has steadily increased, and by the unanimous verdict of all competent judges he is now ranked as the greatest Spanish poet of his century.

Notes[link]

References[link]

•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ruiz, Juan". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

Further reading[link]

• Abellán, José Luis (1977) Del itinerario literario al histórico de Juan Ruiz. Madrid: Diario Informaciones, 21-VII-1977.
• Brownlee, Marina Scordilis (1985) The Status of the Reading Subject in the Libro de buen amor. Chapel Hill: U.N.C. Dept. of Romance Languages (Distributed by University of North Carolina Press).
• Burkard, Richard W. (1999) The Archpriest of Hita and the Imitators of Ovid: a Study in the Ovidian Background of the "Libro de buen amor". Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta
• Caba, Rubén (1976-IX) Juan Ruiz y sus parodias. Madrid: Diario Informaciones, 23-IX-1976.
• Caba, Rubén (1976) Por la ruta serrana del Arcipreste. Madrid: Libertarias-Prodhufi, 1995, 3ª edición. ISBN 84-7954-239-X. (1ª edición: 1976. 2ª edición: 1977). (El author fija el itinerario serrano del Arcipreste de Hita que él mismo recorrió en la primavera de 1973).
• Dagenais, John (1994) The Ethics of Reading in Manuscript Culture: Glossing the "Libro de buen amor". Princeton: Princeton University Press
• Deyermond, Alan (2004) The "Libro de Buen Amor" in England: a tribute to Gerald Gybbon-Monypenny. Manchester: Dept of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Manchester
• Gybbon-Monypenny, G. B., ed. (1970) Libro de Buen Amor Studies. London: Támesis.
• Haywood, Louise M., and Vasvàri, Louise O., eds. (2004) A Companion to the "Libro de buen amor". Woodbridge: Támesis
• Lecoy, Félix (1938) Recherches sur le "Libro de buen amor", de Juan Ruiz, Archiprêtre de Hita. Paris: E. Droz.
• Marmo, Vittorio (1983) Dalle fonti alle forme: studi sul "Libro de buen amor". Naples: Liguori
• Ruiz, Juan (1992) El libro de buen amor; edited by Alberto Blecua. Madrid: Cátedra.
• Vetterling, Mary-nne. A "Bibliography for Juan Ruiz's Libro de buen amor (A)". http://home.comcast.net/~vetterma A. Retrieved 2009-06-06.  (Continually updated.)
• Wacks, David. "Reading Jaume Roig's Spill and the Libro de buen amor in the Iberian <maqâma'> tradition." '(Bulletin of Spanish Studies,' 83.5 (2006): 597-616". hdl:1794/8227. *Zahareas, Anthony N. (1965) The Art of Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita. Madrid: Estudios de Literatura Española.

External links[link]

• Works by Juan Ruiz at Project Gutenberg