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Chaz Mena to portray Pedro Menendez de Aviles

Date:11-23-2009

Time: 7pm

Scholar/actor Chaz Mena will portray Pedro Menendez de Aviles, St. Augustine's founder and colonial Spanish Florida's first governor in an entertaining and engaging look at the settlement of the "nation's oldest city." Adding to the evening will be internationally-renowned archaeologist Dr. Kathleen Deagan detailing the first settlement--the Menendez landing site--and early colonial life in La Florida.

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (Avilés, February 15, 1519 - Santander, September 17, 1574) was a sixteenth century Spanish admiral and pirate hunter. He is best remembered for his founding of St. Augustine, Florida (the first permanent European settlement and oldest port city in what is now the continental United States) on August 28 1565, and also for his subsequent destruction of the French settlement of Fort Caroline. Menéndez was the first governor of Spanish Florida.

Place: Flagler College Auditorium. 14 Granada St. St. Augustine

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The city of St. Augustine will celebrate its 445 anniversary
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Place:	27 Ocean Avenue, San Agustín, Florida

09-02-2010
St. Augustine's 445th Birthday Commemoration
Starting on Thursday, September 2 and continuing through Saturday, September 4, the events commemorate St. Augustine’s standing as the longest continually inhabited city founded by Europeans in what is now the Unite ...
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Place:	St. Augustine (FL)

07-13-2010
Board of Directors meets with Spain’s ambassador to the United States
Santiago Cabanas, Spain’s consul general in Miami, hosted a July 13 meeting between members of the España-Florida Foundation 500 Years’ board of directors and Jorge Dezcallar, Spain’s ambassad ...
Time:	4pm
Place:	Miami

07-05-2010
Seminar "Between Columbus and Jamestown: Spanish St. Augustine"
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Place:	St. Augustine, Florida

06-18-2010
Meeting of the Board of Directors, the uppermost section of direction within the Foundation.
The Board of Directors of the Spain-Florida Foundation 500 years, the uppermost members of the organization will meet on the 18 of June in their head office in Coral G ...
Time:	11.30am
Place:	Coral Gables

06-14-2010
The Battle of Bloody Mose Conmemoration
On Saturday, June 26, 2010 ST. AUGUSTINE, FL 10AM until 4PM ST. AUGUSTINE, FL - In the early morning hours of June 26, 1740, the village of Gracia Real de Santa Tere ...
Time:	10 AM
Place:	St. Augustine