The neighbourhood writers including Queneau, Sartre, Canas and Pichette were soon also regular patrons alongside a host of others.
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The healing properties of sulfur springs that flow into Carratraca caught the attention of the Romans, who left copper and silver coins and statues of Tiberius, Claudius and Caesar at the site known as "La Glorieta", and a late Roman necropolis in Los Maderos near the stream of las Cañas.
From 1858 to 1859 he was also Deputy for San José and was among the opponents of the Cañas-Jerez Treaty, which left Costa Rica without access to Lake Nicaragua and with a limited right of navigation in the lower reaches of the San Juan River.
These three are saints have a strong regional attachment: Aemilian, a Visigothic saint, was patron of the nearby monastery; Dominic, 11th century abbot of Silos and one of the most important saints in thirteenth-century Iberia, was born in the town of Cañas, near to Berceo; and Aurea was an anchoress who lived in the monastery of San Millán during the late eleventh century.
The Juan Agustín Maza University is a private university located in Las Cañas district, Guaymallén department in Mendoza, Argentina.
Many Salvadoran historical figures were born in San Miguel: Captain General Gerado Barrios, writer Francisco Gavidia, and poet Juan J. Cañas.