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19 unusual facts about Lleida


Ardian Đokaj

Djokaj played for FK Dečić, FK Budućnost Podgorica, FK Mladost Podgorica, Mallorca, Lleida, Obilić, OFK Beograd, Red Star Belgrade, Trabzonspor, Ankaraspor, TuS Koblenz and TSV 1860 München before returning to Montenegro to his former club Budućnost.

Avinguda de Prat de la Riba, Lleida

Avinguda Prat de la Riba, formerly called Avenida del General Mola during the Francoist dictatorship, is one of the main avenues of the city of Lleida.

When created, it was a merely 805 meters long originating at Plaça de Ricard Viñes and ending by Carrer del Príncep de Viana.

Bouches-de-l'Èbre

Its prefecture was in Lleida and its subprefectures were Tortosa, Cervera and Tarragona and its only prefect was Alban de Villeneuve-Bargemont, who had previously been auditor to the Council of State and sub prefect of Zierickzée (a subprefecture of the department of Bouches-de-l'Escaut).

Bram van der Stok

After arriving safely there he was equipped with the paperwork of a Belgian persona, and then traveled by train via Brussels and Paris to Toulouse, where the French Resistance put him with two American lieutenants, two other RAF pilots, a French officer and a Russian, and took the group across the Pyrenees to Lleida in Spain.

Carrer de Lluís Companys, Lleida

It stretches from Avinguda de Catalunya towards Gran Passeig de Ronda, Lleida by Plaça dels Pagesos.

Carrer de Lluís Companys is a partly pedestrianised street in the Instituts-Templers district of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain).

Gran Passeig de Ronda, Lleida

It stretches from Plaça d'Europa towards Avinguda de l'Alcalde Areny on the bank of the river Segre, by the Pont Nou.

Gran Passeig de Ronda (Catalan language official name; Spanish: Gran Paseo de Ronda) is one of the main thoroughfares in the city of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain).

History of telephone service in Catalonia

On 1 July, the phonebox at Mollerussa becomes operational and on 8 August the phonebox at Lleida becomes operational.

Josep Borrell

His very basic education was supplemented by reading, but he was able to complete his secondary education in Lleida.

Josep Ibarz i Gilart

In 2007 he retained his position with an absolute majority and since then also been a member of the Lleida provincial government.

Juan de Agramonte

After the failed attempt in 1500, Agramonte, a sailor and native of Lleida, signed a contract with the daughter of Ferdinand of Aragon on October 29, 1511 to lead an expedition of discovery and exploration to Terra Nova in the years following the voyages of John Cabot.

Marta Roure

She attended first course of guitar and song at the Music School in Lleida and studies of musical theater at Youkali school in Barcelona, with Marc Montserrat, "el Sueco" and Susanna Egea as teachers of interpretation, Emma Reverter as teacher of Dance Jazz, Rosa Mateu in spoken voice technics, Enric Torner as teacher of claque, Josep Maria Borràs teacher of sol-fa and repertoire, and Fulgenci Mestres and Carme Sánchez teachers of song.

Mirabelle plum

It is also naturalized in the Ebro Valley in parts of Zaragoza, Teruel, Lleida and Tarragona, and can be found near rivers, irrigation canals and road ditches.

Rambla d'Aragó, Lleida

Autobusos de Lleida L1 (Interior), L5 (Bordeta), L6 (Magraners), L7 (Secà), L11 (Butsènit-Llívia), L12 (Centre Històric-Universitat), L13 (Cappont) and L14 (Agrònoms).

Roda de Isábena

The removal of the see, first to Lleida and then to the diocese of Barbastro-Montsó reduced the importance of the locality.

The Song of the Sibyl

Today the performer is either a boy or a girl, and increasingly more places in the Catalan-speaking world are taking up the tradition again, such that in 2010, it will be performed not only in the majority of municipalities on Mallorca and in L'Alguer (Sardinia), but also in the following municipalities of Catalonia and the Valencian Country: Barcelona (at 3 different churches), Gandia, Lleida, Ontinyent, Sueca, Vic and others.

Una noche con Sabrina Love

Later the film was screened a few film festivals, including: the Miami Hispanic Film Festival, Miami, Florida; the Latin America Film Festival, Poland; and the Bergen International Film Festival, Norway; the Huelva Latin American Film Festival, Huelva, Spain; and the Lleida Latin-American Film Festival, Lleida, Spain.


Autovia C-13

The C-13, also known as Eix del Pallars (Pallars Axis), is a highway in Catalonia, Spain, that connects Lleida with Balaguer and the eastern Noguera Pallaresa river valley.

Camp de Tarragona

As of October 2008, whereas the final boundaries of the new vegueries have yet to be formally approved, they are expected to incorporate largely historical boundaries: Àmbit metropolità de Barcelona, Alt Pirineu i Aran, Camp de Tarragona, Comarques Centrals, Comarques Gironines, Ponent or Lleida, Terres de l'Ebre.

Citizens – Party of the Citizenry

Everywhere else, it remained under 4%, with the worst results in the provinces of Girona (1.69%) and Lleida (1.79%).

Gavet

Gavet de la Conca, a village in the province of Lleida and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain

Joaquín Ibarra

Ibarra's printing used various foundries of his time, highlighting games Gerónimo Gil, the Smelter Rangel (used by the Gazette, and they really are a game of Garamond), types of Lleida Eudald Pradell with casting Madrid, a game of Garamond, and the celebrated and reviled italic cast which composed the Sallust, abierta open by the academic and writer Murcia Espinosa de los Monteros, who owned a foundry in Madrid.

La Llotja de Lleida

The original plan of Lleida's city council was hiring renowned architect Rafael Moneo, who finally declined the offer, and a total of 7 different architect studios presented their proposals in 2004: Mecanoo, Foreign Office Architects headed by Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Josep Llinás, Elías Torres & Martínez Lapeña, Carlos Ferrater, Ramon Artigues, Ramon Sanabria, Ramon Maria Puig and Juan Navarro Baldeweg.

La Seu Vella, Lleida

In 1193, however, the Lleida cathedral chapter ordered the construction of a new edifice, following the contemporary Romanesque architectural canons, to master Pere de Coma.

Lleida Latin-American Film Festival

It is organised by the Latin American Centre of Lleida and is sponsored by the city council (La Paeria), the University of Lleida and La Caixa.

Lleida Pirineus railway station

Although Lleida is not located in the Pyrenees mountain range, a part of the Catalan Pyrenees is located within the province of Lleida, and Lleida Pirineus station is the terminal station of FGC Lleida - La Pobla de Segur line that connects the city of Lleida with those mountains.

Lleida Pirineus railway station (Lleida Pyrenees) is a regional railway station in the city of Lleida, Catalonia, between the neighbourhoods of Pardinyes and Rambla de Ferran.

Maria Rúbies i Garrofé

Maria Rúbies i Garrofé (Camarasa, Noguera, November 21, 1932 – Lleida, January 14, 1993) was a teacher of Catalan politics.

Parliament of Catalonia

The Commonwealth of Catalonia (1914–25) was an assembly of the provincial delegations of Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona, abolished by Primo de Rivera.

Ponent

It is located in the westernmost part of Catalonia, around the city of Lleida, its administrative capital and most populated municipality, and will be formed by five existing comarques: Segrià, Noguera, Pla d'Urgell, Urgell, Segarra and Garrigues.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Lleida

The decree and the ensuing controversies were perceived as anti-Catalan measures by many in Lleida and in the concerned parishes, as they were not previously consulted, and part of a strategy to assimilate the La Franja people into the Spanish-speaking mainstream congregation by cutting them off from their cultural roots.

The city of Lleida was conquered from the Moors by the Count Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona in 1149, and the see was again transferred to its original seat.

The city of Lleida was conquered from the Moors by the Count Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona in 1149, and the episcopal see was again transferred to its original seat.

Vegueria

8th region, the capital was Lleida and the comarques: les Garrigues, la Noguera, l'Urgell, la Segarra and el Segrià (el Pla d'Urgell, newly created in 1987, was back then included in this region).