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unusual facts about Navarra



2010 FIA GT1 Navarra round

The 2010 FIA GT1 Navarra round was an auto racing event held at the Circuito de Navarra, Los Arcos, Spain on 23–24 October 2010, and served as the eighth round of the 2010 FIA GT1 World Championship season.

2010 Navarra Superleague Formula round

The 2010 Navarra Superleague Formula round was a Superleague Formula round held on October 24, 2010, at the Circuito de Navarra circuit, Los Arcos, Spain.

2012 FIA GT1 Navarra round

The 2012 FIA GT1 Navarra round is an auto racing event held at the Circuito de Navarra, Los Arcos, Spain on 26–27 May 2012, and is the third round of the 2012 FIA GT1 World Championship season.

Agustín Pérez Soriano

Agustín Pérez Soriano (Valtierra, Navarra, 28 August 1846 - Madrid, 27 February 1907) was a Spanish composer.

André Navarra

In addition to his position at the Conservatoire de Paris, Navarra taught summer courses at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana Siena from 1954, fall courses in Saint-Jean-de-Luz and accepted an additional professorship at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in 1958.

Navarra also developed friendships with composers Jacques Ibert, Florent Schmitt, and Arthur Honegger.

Arínzano

This Vino de Pago is located in the municipality of Aberin (Merindad de Estella), in the Foral Community of Navarra, Spain).

Bodegas Faustino

other than Faustino itself, the company includes Campillo and Marques de Vitoria also in Rioja; Valcarlos in Navarra; Condesa de Leganza in La Mancha; Bodegas Portia in Ribera del Duero; and Bodegas Victorianas, which offers varietal table wine from across Spain.

Caja Navarra

Caja de Ahorros de Navarra or Caja Navarra or CAN is a medium-sized savings bank based in the Navarra region of northern Spain with headquarters in Pamplona.

Catalonia Offensive

Along the Segre the Nationalists deployed the Muñoz Grandes's Army of Urgel, the Garcia Valiño's Army of Maestrazgo and the Moscardo's Aragon Army; in the confluence of the Segre with the Ebro the Gambara's Italian Cuerpo Legionario Italiano of four divisions (55,000 men) and Solchaga's Army Corps of Navarra; and in the Ebro the Yagüe's Moroccan Corps.

Francisco del Plano

Francisco del Plano (1658 – September 15, 1739) was a Spanish painter who was active in Navarra and the Basque Country.

Grenache

Garnacha plays a major role in the Denominación de Origen Calificada (DOC/DOQ) wines of Rioja and Priorat and the Denominación de Origen (DO) wines of Navarra and all southern Aragonese and southern Catalonian appellations, plus the mountainous areas just southwest of Madrid: Méntrida and Cebreros.

Henry, Count of Montescaglioso

Henry or Enrico di Navarra (before 1144–1173×77), born Rodrigo, was a son of García Ramírez of Navarre and Marguerite de l'Aigle, and brother of Queen Margaret of Sicily, who made him Count of Montescaglioso (1166) and then Count of the Principate (1168).

Jaime del Burgo

Jaime Ignacio del Burgo (Pamplona, Spain 1942) is a Navarrese lawyer and deputy, a historian and opponent of the inclusion of Navarra in the autonomous Basque Country.

Joseph D. Novak

He has received a number of awards and honors including a 1998 Honorary Doctorate from The University of Comahue, Neuquén, Argentina, Honorary Doctorate, Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 2002, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Urbino in 2006, and the first award for contributions to science education from the Council of Scientific Society Presidents.

Juan Núñez III de Lara

Juan Núñez de Lara, Juan Manuel, Pedro Fernández de Castro, Juan Alfonso de la Cerda, lord of Gibraleón, knights of France, England and Germany, and even King Philip III of Navarre, king consort of Navarra, who came accompanied by 100 horsemen and 300 infantry all participated in the siege.

Lekunberri

Lekunberri, Spain - a municipality in the province of Navarre (Navarra), northern Spain.

Lemoniz Nuclear Power Plant

On 3 June 1979, the anti-nuclear activist Gladys del Estal from Donostia died after being hit by a bullet from the police force Guardia Civil during a demonstration in Tudela (Navarra) on the international day of action against nuclear power.

Luis González Torres de Navarra, Marquess of Campoverde

Don Luis González Torres de Navarra, Marquess of Campoverde, was a famous Spanish military leader during the Peninsular War.

Murciélago

Murciélago (Spanish for "bat") was a Navarra fighting bull, whose name became popular after Volkswagen Group AG chose it to name the new Lamborghini model to honor the passion for bull-fighting the founder of the company, Ferruccio Lamborghini, was famous for.

Otazu

This Vino de Pago is located in the municipality of Echauri, a village only 8 km from Pamplona, the capital of the Foral Community of Navarra, Spain).

Pepe el Ferreiro

He participated as lecturer in various conferences about Ethnography, in Canarias, Galicia, Navarra, Asturias; and in the Swiss cities of Zurich and Basel and in Aargau for the Federation of Asturian Societies in Switzerland.

Prado de Irache

This Vino de Pago is located in the municipality of Ayegui, near the town of Estella in the Foral Community of Navarra, Spain).

Rafael Calvo Serer

Rafael Calvo Serer (born 6 October 1916 at Valencia, Spain, died 19 April 1988 at Pamplona, Navarra, Spain) was a Professor of History of Spanish Philosophy, a writer, essayist.

Sancho II of Pamplona

The Historia General de Navarra by Jaime del Burgo says (referencing in turn the Anales del Reino de Navarra of José de Moret) that on the occasion of the donation of the villa of Alastue by Sancho to the monastery of San Juan de la Peña in 987, he titled himself "King of Navarre," the first time that title had been used.

Spanish basketball league system

1ª División (14 groups, one for each autonomous community except Basque Country, La Rioja, and Navarra, who share the same group, like Valencian Community and Region of Murcia); in Catalonia, known as, Copa Catalunya.

Style of the French sovereign

In January 1641, the King of France was chosen by the Catalonians as 'Count of Barcelona, Roussillon, and Cerdagne'; accordingly, official documents relating to the area between 1641 and 1652 described the King as Dei gratia Galliarum et Navarrae Rex, comes Barcinonae, Rossilionis et Ceritaniae ("By the Grace of God King of the Gauls and Navarra, Count of Barcelona, Roussillon and Cerdagne").

Tudela to Bilbao Railway

The Tudela to Bilbao Railway (Spanish: Ferrocarril Tudela de Navarra a Bilbao) is a Spanish railway from Tudela, Navarre to Bilbao.

Victor Navarra

Victor J. Navarra (June 29, 1952 - December 30, 2007) was a retired New York City Fire Department lieutenant who coordinated the starts of the last 26 New York City Marathon races.


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