Eldorado (TV series) Eldorado (TV series) Eldorado was a British soap opera created by Tony Holland from an original idea by John Dark and Verity Lambert that ran for only one year, from 6 July 1992 to 9 July 1993. Set in the fictional town of Los Barcos on the Costa Eldorado in Spain and following the lives of British and European expatriates, the BBC hoped it would be as successful as "EastEnders" and replicate some of the sunshine and glamour of imported Australian soaps such as "Home and Away" and "Neighbours". A co-production between the BBC and independent production company Cinema Verity
Martin de Barcos Martin de Barcos Martin de Barcos (1600–1678), was a French Catholic priest and theologian of the Jansenist School. Barcos was born at Bayonne, a nephew of Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, the commendatory abbot of the Abbey of Saint-Cyran in the Duchy of Berry, who sent him to Belgium to be taught by Cornelius Jansen. When he returned to France he served for a time as tutor to a son of Robert Arnauld d'Andilly and later, in 1644, succeeded his uncle as the owner of the abbey. He did much to improve the abbey; new buildings were erected, and the