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Retiro ( Spanish for Retirement) might refer to the following:
- Retiro, Antioquia, a municipality in the Colombian department of Antioquia
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Retiro, Buenos Aires, a neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Estación Retiro, a large railway station in the aforementioned Buenos Aires neighbourhood
- Retiro, a municipality in Chile
- Retiro, a district in Madrid, Spain
- Parque del Buen Retiro, park in Madrid, Spain
- Retiro (genus), a genus of spiders in the Amaurobiidae
- Retiro Island, an island in Lake Paranoá, in the capital of Brazil
Retiro is a district located at the southeast of the city centre of Madrid, Spain. Its area is of 5.38 km2, the number of houses is 46,512 and the population, as of 2005, was of 126,058.
Retiro is a station on Line C of the Buenos Aires Underground and is the current terminus. The station is a part of the larger Retiro railway station which connects to the Mitre, San Martín and Belrano railways, as well as their corresponding commuter rail lines.
Retiro is a future terminus station on Line E of the Buenos Aires Underground. The station will be part of the larger Retiro railway station which connects to the Mitre, San Martín and Belrano railways, as well as their corresponding commuter rail lines.
Retiro is a metro station which serves the Retiro District and Buen Retiro Park in Madrid, Spain.
Usage examples of "retiro".
He took me to the Castle of Buen Retiro, formerly a royal palace, and now a prison.
I could forsake a drowning relative to help dispute about whether the stopple of a departed Buon Retiro scent-bottle was genuine or spurious.
Buen Retiro, December 28, 1743, and his two letters to the Jesuits of Paraguay.
It is not quite by accident that you are in the gardens of the Retiro every evening, and that a few words are always exchanged with a certain young lady as she passes with her duenna.
The meetings between Gerald Burke and Inez in the Gardens of the Retiro had ceased a day or two afterwards, the duenna having positively refused to allow them to continue, threatening Inez to inform her father of them unless she gave them up.
I was not much better either in 1768, when I was lodged in the prison of Buen Retiro, in Madrid, but I must not anticipate events.
At dinner I told the story of my sufferings at Buen Retiro, and the conversation I had just had with the Count of Aranda, who had returned me my letters.
A KH-12 Keyhole Satellite was moved into geosynchronous orbit over the city of Sao Paulo and began recording phone conversations from the Born Retiro neighborhood.
Joseph fled to the left bank of the Tagus to rally his army between Aranjuez and Toledo, leaving a garrison in the Retiro palace.
The troops found in the Retiro, however, were made prisoners of war on the 14th of August, so that Lord Wellington had complete possession of the Spanish capital.
Castellana and the Retiro, without stopping a moment to sit down, taking a peripatetic lesson in English on the way.
Buen Retiro and here he established fabriques that continued to thrive even up to the time of King Ferdinand in 1780, and would probably have prospered much longer had not the Napoleonic wars come and the French destroyed the factories.
I decide to go for a walk alone in my favourite places, and I end up sitting smoking a cigarette on a bench in the Retiro Park.