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12 unusual facts about Albacete


Almansa Guitarras

The company was founded in 1989, and is located in Almansa, (Albacete).

Asbjørn Sunde

In January 1937 Sunde led a group of four volunteers he had personally recruited from Oslo to the headquarters of the International Brigades in Albacete, Spain.

Cătălin Munteanu

UD Salamanca paid 1,800,000 dollars for Munteanu's transfer from Steaua, where he played until 2001 when he was bought by Atlético Madrid, but he was loaned to Espanyol Barcelona and then Albacete.

Dama del Cerro de los Santos

It was found in 1870 in the sanctuary of Cerro de los Santos in Montealegre del Castillo in Albacete province, Spain.

Eleazar Huerta Valcárcel

Eleazar Huerta Valcárcel (22 December 1903, Tobarra, Albacete – 1974, Santiago de Chile) was a Spanish lawyer, poet and politician.

Fuensanta

Fuensanta, Albacete, a municipality in Albacete, Castile-La Mancha, Spain.

LAPE

Whenever the air battles over Madrid became too difficult to handle for the LAPE pilots, the Madrid-Barcelona line was replaced by Barcelona-Albacete.

Leonardo Polo

When the Republican government urged civilian to leave the capital city of Spain, Polo's family moved to Albacete, where he spent his first two years of secondary education.

Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion

The battalion was formed at Albacete, Spain under the command of Edward Cecil-Smith, a Montreal-based journalist and trade union organizer.

Nicolás Núñez

Then he went to the preseason Spanish club, Albacete, in which that year he was hired by loaner Everton Viña del Mar.

Suma Gestión Tributaria

Also it is working on similar projects with the Majadahonda Town Council (Madrid region), since 2005 and with the Provincial Council of Albacete, since 2012.

Wind power in Spain

Concentrated research is occurring concerning wind measurement in the Albacete region at Higueruela.


Abdallah al-Adil

But Abdallah was soon visited in Murcia by the shadowy figure of Abu Zayd ibn Yujjan, a former high bureaucrat in Marrakesh, who's fall had been engineered some years earlier by al-Jami'i, and was now serving a sentence of exile nearby in Chinchilla (Albacete).

Airbus Helicopters

Today, Airbus Helicopters has six plants in the Europe (Marignane and La Courneuve in France, Donauwörth, Ottobrunn and Kassel in Germany, and Albacete in Spain), plus 30 subsidiaries and participants around the world.

Estadio Rommel Fernández

The original name of the stadium was Estadio Revolución, but in 1993, it changed its name to Estadio Rommel Fernández in honour of Rommel Fernández, a Panamanian soccer player who died in a car accident in the city of Albacete, Spain, on May 6 of that year, At that time the stadium had a capacity of 22,000 spectators.

Jorge Troiteiro

Jorge Troiteiro Carasco (born 9 April 1984 in Almansa, Albacete, Castile-La Mancha) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Doxa Katokopias F.C. in Cyprus, as an attacking midfielder.

Julián Rubio

In late April 1999, following spells with three teams (including Sevilla FC – in which he was one of four managers in 1996–97 and another four in the following season – and Club Bolívar in Bolivia), Rubio returned for the fourth time as Albacete coach, replacing Italian Luigi Maifredi late into the second level season and leading the Castile-La Mancha outfit to the 15th position (out of 22 teams).

Lady of Elche

While it is a bust, there are proposals that it was part of a seated statue like the Lady of Baza or a standing one like the Gran Dama Oferente from Cerro de los Santos (Montealegre del Castillo, Albacete).

Llanos

Albacete Airport, also called Aeropuerta de Albacete-Las Llanos.

Lorenzo Albacete

As Hendrik Hertzberg (The New Yorker) has noted: "Lorenzo Albacete is one of a kind, and so is God at the Ritz. The book, like the monsignor, crackles with humor, warmth, and intellectual excitement. Reading it is like having a stay-up-all-night, jump-out-of-your-chair, have-another-double-espresso marathon conversation with one of the world's most swashbuckling talkers. Conversation, hell-this is a Papal bull session!"