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Spanish: cartuja

English translation: charterhouse, monastery







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Spanish term or phrase:cartuja
English translation:charterhouse, monastery
Entered by:xxxChutzpahtic
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Art/Literary - Materials (Plastics, Ceramics, etc.)
Spanish term or phrase: cartuja
o piedras blancas de la arena que llevan de la cartuja de Valldecrist ... this article is set in the 1700s about the history of a ceramic factory

A quarry?
Mary Bauer
Spain
charterhouse or monastery
Explanation:
cartuja f charterhouse, monastery

Analecta 2002-2003
... AC 177 La Cartuja de Vall de Crist y su Iglesia Mayor. ... Version of Laurentius
Surius by John PH Clark / The Construction of the Charterhouse of Pesio ...
monsite.wanadoo.fr/AnalectaCartusiana/page8.html - 14k

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\"cartujas\" are typical in Southern Spain. I\'d say \"charterhouse\". It definitely is the most common term for \"cartuja\".

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Charterhouse
... just as each house of that order is known in Spain as cartuja and in Italy
... so in England the corruption of Chartreux took the form of charterhouse. ...
www.newadvent.org/cathen/03634a.htm - 14k -

Seville Museums of Art, Bullfighting and Archaeology
... It is located in the Cartuja (Charterhouse) of the Santa María de las Cuevas.
It has a permanent collection and halls dedicated to temporary exhibitions ...
www.aboutsevilla.com/sevilla/museums.asp - 69k

IVR2005 Presentation
... “La Cartuja” Carthusian Charterhouse, Albayzín and Sacromonte quarters are
three different places of interest but can be included in the same ...
www.ugr.es/~ivr2005/in/programasocial_ing.htm - 25k -
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xxxChutzpahtic
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5 +5charterhouse or monastery
xxxChutzpahtic
3Carthusian monastery
Coral Getino


  

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charterhouse or monastery

Explanation:
cartuja f charterhouse, monastery

Analecta 2002-2003
... AC 177 La Cartuja de Vall de Crist y su Iglesia Mayor. ... Version of Laurentius
Surius by John PH Clark / The Construction of the Charterhouse of Pesio ...
monsite.wanadoo.fr/AnalectaCartusiana/page8.html - 14k

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Note added at 6 mins (2005-03-19 21:29:09 GMT)
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\"cartujas\" are typical in Southern Spain. I\'d say \"charterhouse\". It definitely is the most common term for \"cartuja\".

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Charterhouse
... just as each house of that order is known in Spain as cartuja and in Italy
... so in England the corruption of Chartreux took the form of charterhouse. ...
www.newadvent.org/cathen/03634a.htm - 14k -

Seville Museums of Art, Bullfighting and Archaeology
... It is located in the Cartuja (Charterhouse) of the Santa María de las Cuevas.
It has a permanent collection and halls dedicated to temporary exhibitions ...
www.aboutsevilla.com/sevilla/museums.asp - 69k

IVR2005 Presentation
... “La Cartuja” Carthusian Charterhouse, Albayzín and Sacromonte quarters are
three different places of interest but can be included in the same ...
www.ugr.es/~ivr2005/in/programasocial_ing.htm - 25k -

xxxChutzpahtic
United Kingdom
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agree Yvonne Becker
53 mins
  -> Gracias, Smash :)

agree David Hollywood
2 hrs
  -> Gracias, David :)

agree agoreux
6 hrs

agree bigedsenior
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agree María T. Vargas
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Carthusian monastery

Explanation:
Babylon

cartuja (f)

n. Carthusian monastery, monastery of the Carthusian order of monks which was founded in France by St. Bruno (Catholicism)


Coral Getino
United States
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