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December 2016 - a female black redstart - common at this time of year - flying quickly overhead and nearly missed! Situated in the north-eastern corner of the Cadiz province and with a population of about 8,500, the beautiful Andalucian town of Olvera is one of the larger "pueblo blancos" (white villages) in the area with white houses, steep and narrow streets leading up to an old Arab fortress at the top of town. Close by is an impressive church, the 'Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación' (the Parish of Our Lady of the Incarnation). There are plenty more photos of Olvera and other Spanish towns/locations if you take a look at my 'Albums' page, www.flickr.com/photos/36623892@N00/sets/ - thank you.
Olvera está situada en el noreste de la provincia de Cádiz, concretamente en la serranía gaditana. Puerta de la ruta de los Pueblos Blancos.
Parroquia de nuestra Señora de la Encarnación, vista desde el Castillo Arabe. Construcción Neoclásica de fines del siglo XVIII fue mandada construir por los Duques de Osuna. Está construida sobre el solar de una antigua mezquita árabe y sustituye a una primitiva iglesia gótica, cuyos restos se conservan en la capilla bautismal.
Easter 2012 - storm clouds gather above this beautiful 'pueblo blanco', which lies in the north-east corner of the Cadiz Province of Andalucia. There are plenty more photos of Olvera if you take a look at the set in www.flickr.com/photos/36623892@N00/sets/ - thank you.
Silhouette of Olvera against a magnificent sunset - February 2011. There are plenty more photos of Olvera if you take a look at the set in www.flickr.com/photos/36623892@N00/sets/ - thank you.
April 2019 - Above the 'Plaza de Andalusia' in the centre of Olvera is the garden of el Peñón del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús (the Rock of the Sacred Heart of Jesus). At the top of the rock, with arms raised is the impressive statue of Christ carved by Jose Even Navas, in 1929. Some photos taken in this attractive haven of peace and tranquility.
Situated in the north-eastern corner of the Cadiz province and with a population of about 8,500, the beautiful Andalucian town of Olvera is one of the larger "pueblo blancos" (white villages) in the area with white houses, steep and narrow streets leading up to an old Arab fortress at the top of town. Close by is an impressive church, the 'Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación' (the Parish of Our Lady of the Incarnation).
There are plenty more photos of Olvera and other Spanish towns/locations if you take a look at my 'Albums' page, www.flickr.com/photos/36623892@N00/sets/ - thank you.
I was torn. I really wanted to go to bed, but I also really wanted to put up my version of this shot before monkeytime got his up.
Situated in the north-eastern corner of the Cadiz province and with a population of about 8,500, the beautiful Andalucian town of Olvera is one of the larger "pueblo blancos" (white villages) in the area with white houses, steep and narrow streets leading up to an old Arab fortress at the top of town. Close by is an impressive church, the 'Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación' (the Parish of Our Lady of the Incarnation). There are plenty more photos of Olvera and other Spanish towns/locations if you take a look at my 'Albums' page, www.flickr.com/photos/36623892@N00/sets/ - thank you.
Wide shot of Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación y Castillo árabe. (the Parish of Our Lady of the Incarnation and the Arabic Castle)
August 2011 - wandering around the town. Situated in the north-eastern corner of the Cadiz province and with a population of about 8,500, the beautiful Andalucian town of Olvera is one of the larger "pueblo blancos" (white villages) in the area with white houses, steep and narrow streets leading up to an old Arab fortress at the top of town. Close by is an impressive church, the 'Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación' (the Parish of Our Lady of the Incarnation). There are plenty more photos of Olvera and other Spanish towns/locations if you take a look at my 'Albums' page, www.flickr.com/photos/36623892@N00/sets/ - thank you.
Looking down onto the town from the Arab fortress. Situated in the north-eastern corner of the Cadiz province and with a population of about 8,500, the beautiful Andalucian town of Olvera is one of the larger "pueblo blancos" (white villages) in the area with white houses, steep and narrow streets leading up to an old Arab fortress at the top of town. Close by is an impressive church, the 'Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación' (the Parish of Our Lady of the Incarnation). There are plenty more photos of OLvera and other Spanish towns/locations if you take a look at my 'Albums' page, www.flickr.com/photos/36623892@N00/sets/ - thank you.
Olvera Street is in the oldest part of Downtown Los Angeles, California, USA, and is part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument. Historically, it abutted the original Chinatown, which was later removed to its modern location to make way for Union Station. There are 27 buildings of various ages still standing on Olvera Street, including the Avila Adobe (1818), the Pelanconi House (1857), and the Sepulveda House (1887).
Los Angeles was founded in 1781 by Spanish pobladores (settlers), on a site southeast of today's Olvera Street near the Los Angeles River. They consisted of 11 families — 44 men, women, and children — and were accompanied by a few Spanish soldiers. They came from nearby Mission San Gabriel Arcángel to establish a secular pueblo on the banks of the Porciúncula River at the Indian village of Yang-na. The new town was named El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora Reina de los Ángeles. Priests from San Gabriel established an asistencia (a sub-mission), the Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles Asistencia, to tend to their religious needs. The pueblo eventually built its own parish church, known today as the "Old Plaza Church." Unpredictable flooding forced the settlers to abandon the original site and move to higher ground in the early 1800s.
Spanish colonial rule, which began with territorial claims to the area as early as the 1500s and saw actual settlement from 1769, lasted until Mexican independence in 1821. This period saw Los Angeles's first streets and adobe buildings. During Mexican rule, which lasted just twenty-six years, the Plaza was the heart of a vibrant ethnic Californio community life in Los Angeles and was the center of an economy based upon farming in the former flood plain, supplemented with cattle ranching.
In the midst of Downtown industrialization, Olvera Street is a quaint, colorized, and non-confrontational environment. The Avila Adobe aside, however, the buildings on the street date from at least seventy years after the founding of the city in 1781, and have little if any authentic association with the city's founding, or with its former status as a Spanish, then Mexican outpost. Olvera is really a named alley, unusual in Los Angeles, rather than a true street. This can be seen from the fact that most of the buildings originally had their main entrances and addresses on the adjacent and parallel Main and Los Angeles Streets. In addition, the frontages along Olvera Street are uneven, as is typical with alleys. Nevertheless, for virtually all of its history it has been named as a street, sometimes also being identified as Wine Street, in reference to a wine cellar once located there, as well as wineries that once stood nearby.
As a tourist attraction, Olvera Street is a living museum paying homage to a romantic vision of old Mexico. The exterior facades of the brick buildings enclosing Olvera Street and on the small vendor stands lining its center are colorful piñatas, hanging puppets in white peasant garb, Mexican pottery, serapes, mounted bull horns, oversized sombreros, and a life-size stuffed donkey. Olvera Street attracts almost two million visitors per year. It has very quickly become a very popular tourist location due to its authenticity and very focused method of preserving Spanish culture.
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"Olvera Street was the old trail down which Governor Felipe de Neve led his colonists when he founded Los Angeles in 1781. In this quaint "Old California" Street, where Mexican craftsmen make and display their wares, is located the Old Avila Adobe where Commodore Stockton had his headquarters during the American conquest."
Sep 8, 1941
(Mailed to Miss Edythe Marshall, 116 Overbrook St., Mt. Vernon, NY...but no message written on card)
July 25, 2021: Olvera Street in Los Angeles . Multi image sequence stacked into layers in Photoshop.
Graciela (Chela), Concha Fernandez, Anselmo Olvera, Rebeca Fernandez, Maria Luisa Olvera, Gloria Overa, Néstor Fernández y Guadalupe Olvera
Declarada Conjunto Histórico Artístico, su casco urbano presenta una exquisita mezcla de herencia andalusí, arquitectura popular y belleza monumental, con casas encaladas y señoriales fachadas palaciegas.
The early morning fog hung on the valleys as the strong sunlight shine providing some unusual views of this beautify part of Andalucia in Southern Spain.
Pueblo Blanco is a Category 1 Campsite , situated on a typical Andalusian Farm Estate, located in the vicinity of the Via Verde de la Sierra and the village of Olvera in the province of Cadiz.
Olvera was a real treat, the camping was great and the town was excellent with a hilltop castle that afforded great views.
In this photo I am wearing my ModCloth Tied Up in Oslo Dress, patterned tights, brown lace up boots, my ModCloth A Stitch In Time Clutch, and my ModCloth Cinnamon Mocha Scarf.
February 2012. Approaching the town from the east on Avenida Julián Besteiro. Situated in the north-eastern corner of the Cadiz province and with a population of about 8,500, the beautiful Andalucian town of Olvera is one of the larger "pueblo blancos" (white villages) in the area with white houses, steep and narrow streets leading up to an old Arab fortress at the top of town. Close by is an impressive church, the 'Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación' (the Parish of Our Lady of the Incarnation). There are plenty more photos of Olvera and other Spanish towns/locations if you take a look at my 'Albums' page, www.flickr.com/photos/36623892@N00/sets/ - thank you.
The early morning fog hung on the valleys as the strong sunlight shine providing some unusual views of this beautify part of Andalucia in Southern Spain.
Pueblo Blanco is a Category 1 Campsite , situated on a typical Andalusian Farm Estate, located in the vicinity of the Via Verde de la Sierra and the village of Olvera in the province of Cadiz.
Olvera was a real treat, the camping was great and the town was excellent with a hilltop castle that afforded great views.
October 2012 - impressive cactus plant in 'el Peñón del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús' (the Rock of the Sacred Heart of Jesus), a beautiful rock garden in the heart of the town. Situated in the north-eastern corner of the Cadiz province and with a population of about 8,500, the beautiful Andalucian town of Olvera is one of the larger "pueblo blancos" (white villages) in the area with white houses, steep and narrow streets leading up to an old Arab fortress at the top of town. Close by is an impressive church, the 'Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación' (the Parish of Our Lady of the Incarnation). There are plenty more photos of Olvera and other Spanish towns/locations if you take a look at my 'Albums' page, www.flickr.com/photos/36623892@N00/sets/ - thank you.