San Ildefonso

American  

[sahn eel-de-fawn-saw] / sɑn ˌil dɛˈfɔn sɔ /

noun

1. a town in central Spain, near Segovia: termed the “Spanish Versailles” for its 18th-century palace La Granja; treaty 1800.

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San Ildefonso British  

/ san ildeˈfɔnso /

noun

1. Also called: La Granja. a town in central Spain, near Segovia: site of the 18th-century summer palace of the kings of Spain

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San Ildefonso

Dozens gathered on a recent day at Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City for a meet-and-greet with Mezcal and three more “Xolos”, as these slender dogs are locally known.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023

Residents who evacuated from their flooded homes sit on a roadside after Super Typhoon Noru, in San Ildefonso, Bulacan province, Philippines, September 26, 2022.

From Reuters ● Sep. 27, 2022

In an article that appeared recently in El Palacio, the magazine of the Museum of New Mexico, Hendricks writes that only 85 of the 140 residents at San Ildefonso Pueblo survived the epidemic.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 24, 2020

A more contemporary vision of Mexico appears in this handsomely printed overview of an exhibition I saw this summer at the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2017

She did not understand what he was doing in the garb of a friar, collecting the dead of the plague on the streets of San Ildefonso.

From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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