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Comparing land- and skyscapes in the three main manorial-conquered lands of the Canary Islands
Maria Florencia Muratore, Alejandro Gangui, Juan Antonio Belmonte +1
This work is a study of the relationship between astronomy and landscape focused on the orientation of Christian churches of the three main Manorial (Señorío) Islands of the Canary…
On the orientation of historic Christian churches of Fuerteventura: conciliating tradition, winds and topography
Maria Florencia Muratore, Alejandro Gangui, Maitane Urrutia-Aparicio +2
We present the results of an analysis of the precise spatial orientation of colonial Christian churches located in the Canary Island of Fuerteventura (Spain). Our sample consists o…
Archaeoastronomy and the orientation of churches in the Jesuit missions of north-western New Spain
Maria Florencia Muratore, Adrian Di Paolo, Alejandro Gangui
We present an extensive archaeoastronomical study of the orientations of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jesuit churches in the lands of the historic viceroyalty of New Spain.…
La orientación de las iglesias coloniales de Fuerteventura
Maria Florencia Muratore, Alejandro Gangui
We use standard tools of Archaeoastronomy to approach the study of orientations, possibly astronomical, of a group of colonial Christian churches. We present preliminary results of…
La orientación de las iglesias jesuíticas en América: resultados preliminares
Adrian Di Paolo, Maria Florencia Muratore, Alejandro Gangui
We study the Jesuit mission churches in America, which for almost two centuries were the most representative constructions in the process of Christian evangelisation on the contine…
Archaeoastronomical study of Christian churches in Fuerteventura
Maria Florencia Muratore, Alejandro Gangui
We present an archaeoastronomical study of the orientations of the colonial Christian churches on the island of Fuerteventura, in the Canary Islands, Spain, mostly built from the p…