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unusual facts about Alzira


Alzira, Valencia

According to one source, the mutiny at Sucro of 206 BC, squelched by Scipio Africanus, was at or near present-day Alzira, a few kilometers east of the mouth of the Sucro/Jucar River.


Monastery of la Murta

The last part of this heritage of the monastery library, which was a member of the and Juan Vich Manrique de Lara, the archdeacon Pedro Esplugues, Cardinal Vera and the Bishop of Segorbe, Gilabert Martí, all of them born in Alzira.

Salvadore Cammarano

For Verdi he wrote Alzira (1845), La battaglia di Legnano (1849) and Luisa Miller (1849), and finished his libretto for Il trovatore (1853) when he died in July 1852,but it was expanded by Leone Emanuele Bardare.


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