Hortensia (disambiguation)

Hortensia is a common name for the Hydrangea genus of flowering plants.

Hortensia may also refer to:

People

  • Hortensia (orator), a Roman woman who successfully repealed a tax imposed by the Second Triumvirate in 42 BC
  • Hortensia Bussi (1914–2009), also known as Hortensia Allende, widow of Chilean president Salvador Allende
  • Hortensia (gens), an ancient plebeian family at Rome

Places

Other

  • Lex Hortensia, an ancient Roman law named after the Roman Republican dictator Quintus Hortensius
  • Hortensia diamond, a peach colored diamond of 20 carats formerly part of the French Crown Jewels, now in the Louvre
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