Prado Sentence Examples
Its surrender in 1625, after a ten months' siege, to the Spaniards under Spinola is the subject of the famous picture by Velasquez in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
The city is laid out regularly, with broad streets, a large central plaza and a public garden, or promenade, called the prado.
There is a pretty chapel called the " Rotunda," erected in 1852 at the lower end of the prado by President Belzu, on the spot where an attempt had been made to assassinate him.
The former, the old city, lying close to the harbour front, has streets as narrow as is consistent with wheel traffic. Obispo (Pi y Margall in the new republican nomenclature), O'Reilly and San Rafael are the finest retail business streets, and the Prado and the Cerro the handsomest residential streets in the city proper.
A large municipal gaol (1834-1837), capable of receiving 500 inmates, with barracks for a regiment, is a striking object on the Prado.
In 1907 a hurricane destroyed the greater part of the laurels of the Prado and the royal palms of the Parque de Colon.
The Paseo del Prado, which ranks high among the public gardens of South America, is beautifully situated beyond the suburb of Paso Molino, 3 m.
In the former country General Prado was deposed and Colonel Pierola proclaimed dictator.
Mambo also developed in Cuba as a dance by Perez Prado, a musician who took it to Mexico where it became a favorite dance both in the clubs and in films in the latter part of the 20th century.
The original form developed by Prado was eventually replaced by a more standardized version developed by Puerto Rican dance teacher Eddie Torres in the 1970s.
AdvertisementImitations may be labeled Proda or Prado to fool customers who don't look closely.
On the 2nd of August 1876 General Mariano-Ignacio Prado was elected.