Luz (disambiguation)
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Luz means light in Portuguese and Spanish, and is also used as an abbreviation of Nossa Senhora da Luz (Our Lady of Light). A number of things, places and people can be referred to as simply Luz:
- Brazil
- Luz, Minas Gerais, a municipality
- Luz station, a train and metro station in São Paulo
- France
- Luz-Saint-Sauveur, a town in the Pyrénées
- Saint-Jean de Luz, a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Luz, a river in the Hautes-Pyrénées
- Portugal
- Luz, a parish in the municipality of Lagos
- Luz, a parish in the municipality of Mourão
- Luz, a parish in the municipality of Tavira
- Luz (Santa Cruz da Graciosa), a parish
- Luz, a former parish of Lisbon, presently incorporated into the parishes of Carnide and São Domingos de Benfica. The name still survives in:
- Largo da Luz (Luz Square), site of a large annual fair and the address of Colégio Militar
- Igreja da Luz (Luz Church), located at Largo da Luz
- Estádio da Luz, home stadium of football (soccer) team SL Benfica
- Colégio Militar-Luz, a station of the Lisbon metro
- Spain
- Luz Monastery, in Murcia, Spain
- Venezuela
- LUZ, the University of Zulia.
- People
- Luz Casal (1958—), female pop singer from Spain
- George Luz (1921—1998), an officer of the U.S. Army
- Pre-Incan culture
- Luz culture, a pre-Incan culture of Period IV of the Pre-Ceramic era (6000 BCE—4200 BCE)
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