- A
presidio (jail, fortification) was a
fortified base
established by the
Spanish Empire between the 16th and 18th
centuries in
areas under their control...
- The
Presidio of San
Francisco (originally, El
Presidio Real de San
Francisco or The
Royal Fortress of
Saint Francis) is a park and
former U.S. Army post...
- Look up
presidio in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
presidio is a
Spanish fortified base
established in the
early modern era, e.g. in the Mediterranean...
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Presidio County is a
county located in the U.S.
state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its po****tion was 6,131. Its
county seat is Marfa. The
county was...
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Presidio is a city in
Presidio County, Texas,
United States. It is
situated on the Rio
Grande (Río
Bravo del Norte) River, on the
opposite side of the...
- The
Presidio is a 1988
American crime film
directed by
Peter Hyams and
starring Sean
Connery and Mark Harmon.
Hyams also
handled the
cinematography and...
- The
Presidio Modelo was a "model prison" with
panopticon design,
built on the Isla de
Pinos ("Isle of Pines"), now the Isla de la
Juventud ("Isle of Youth")...
- The
Presidio of
Monterey (POM),
located in Monterey, California, is an
active US Army
installation with
historic ties to the
Spanish colonial era. Currently...
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Presidio Terrace is a small,
extremely affluent gated neighborhood in San
Francisco that was the
first of the master-planned
communities built in the western...
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towns and
ranchos around the missions.
Additional Presidios were
established to
counter them. One
Presidio, San Elzeario, was
established near El Porvenir...
