Starting this April 2010, El Adelantado Pedro Menendez de Aviles, founder of Saint Augustine, will visit Florida schools thanks to the Spain Florida Foundation 500 years. Television actor Chaz Mena will portray Menendez in a highly educational representation in which he will interact with the children.
Chaz Mena, who has an MFA Carnegie Mellon UNiversity, has appeared in film and television and is a seasoned, theatrical actor. An award winning performer, Mr. Mena has also written Charla, a chat with Jose Marti, with a grant from FHC.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
In their efforts to conquer and colonize North America, the Spanish brought to the "New World" different customs, values, and traditions from their colonial rivals, the British and the French. Unlike the Pilgrims of ...
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 ...
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 ...