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4 unusual facts about Alcazar


Alcázar

It was destroyed by fire in 1734, and the present Royal Palace of Madrid was built on the site.

The "Siege of the Alcázar" in the Spanish Civil War refers to this castle, which was held by the Nationalist Colonel José Moscardó Ituarte against Republican forces.

In Portugal there is a city called Alcácer do Sal (Al Qaşr), which was an administrative regional seat for the Moors during the Islamic Al-Andalus era on the Iberian Peninsula.

Ninsun Poli

This soul and R&B artist made her debut at Hultsfred Festival 2004 in Sweden followed by performances at Stockholm's Berns, Lydmar, Alcazar and Nalen and at Malmö Festival in Malmö in summer of 2006.


Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos

Henry's successor, Isabella and her husband Ferdinand used the Alcázar for one of the first permanent tribunals of the Spanish Inquisition and as a headquarters for their campaign against the Nasrid dynasty in Granada, the last remaining Moorish kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula.

Alcazar Hotel

Lightner Museum, listed on the NRHP in Florida as Alcazar Hotel

Alcázar of Segovia

In 1258, parts of the Alcázar had to be rebuilt by King Alfonso X of Castile after a cave-in and soon after the Hall of Kings was built to house Parliament.

Children of General Hospital

Near the birth Skye called her adoptive grandfather, Edward Quartermaine, and the call was traced by Alcazar.

Eve Sussman

Premiered at the 2004 Whitney Biennial, 89 Seconds at Alcázar is a 10-minute, continuously flowing single take that meticulously creates the moments directly before and after the image portrayed by Diego Velásquez in Las Meninas (1656).

Horse head mask

However the horse head mask appears many years before in the musicvideo to Crying at the Discoteque of the band Alcazar.

Not a Sinner Nor a Saint

In spring 2003, Alcazar entered the Swedish pre-selections for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Pepe Carvalho

El laberinto griego (The Greek labyrinth, 1990), by Rafael Alcázar, starring Omero Antonutti (in a character who changed the name Carvalho for Bardón).

Therese Merkel

Merkel herself has participated in Melodifestivalen three times as of 2010: in Melodifestivalen 2003, Melodifestivalen 2005, Melodifestivalen 2009 and in Melodifestivalen 2010, all four times as a member of the popular pop group Alcazar.

Vicente Alcazar

At the recommendation of artist Gray Morrow, then editing then Archie Comics' imprint Red Circle Comics, American publishers began using Alcazar's work in the mid-1970s.


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