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unusual facts about Plaza de toros de San Fernando, Cádiz



A48

Autovía A-48, a motorway under construction connecting Cadiz and Algeciras, Spain.

Adelardo López de Ayala y Herrera

He took part in the revolution of 1868, wrote the Manifesto of Cadiz, took office as colonial minister, favored the candidature of Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, resigned in 1871, returned to his early conservative principles, and was a member of Alfonso XII's first cabinet.

Airén

In 1914, García de los Salmones mentioned the cultivation of Lairén in Madrid, Villacañas (Toledo), Tarancón (Cuenca), Campo de Criptana (Ciudad Real), Frejenal de la Sierra (Badajoz), Montefrío (Granada), Baeza (Jaén), Coin (Málaga), Fiñana (Almería), Cazalla de la Sierra (Sevilla), Espera (Cádiz) and Córdoba.

Alejandro O'Reilly

A street in Cádiz still bears his name, as does one in Old Havana, Cuba, marking the location where this officer came ashore while the English were embarking to leave.

AnimaNaturalis

As an international non-profit organization, it has offices in Madrid (Spain), Cadiz (Spain), Barcelona (Spain), Bogota (Colombia), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Caracas (Venezuela), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Lima (Peru), Logroño (Spain), Mexico Federal District (Mexico), Montevideo (Uruguay) and Santiago de Chile (Chile).

Antonio Cánovas del Castillo

During the final years of Isabel II, he served in a number of posts, including a diplomatic mission to Rome, governor of Cádiz, and director general of local administration.

Audiencias Provinciales of Spain

Examples include the Audiencia Provincial of Alicante, located in Elche rather than Alicante; the fifth section of the Audiencia Provincial of Murcia in Cartagena; the Audiencia Provincial of Pontevedra, with its fifth and sixth sections in Vigo; and the Audiencia Provincial of Cádiz with a section in the exclave of Ceuta.

Bay of Cadiz

Bay of Cádiz, a body of water off the province of Cádiz, Spain

Benedetto Accolti the Younger

He was promoted bishop of Cadiz on 24 July 1521, before reaching canonical age of 27, so he was named administrator after his uncle.Then he was transferred to Cremona on 16 March 1523 again after his uncle and then named Secretary of Pope Clement VII the same year.

Bonanza, Spain

Neal Stephenson named half of his novel The Confusion after the port, and had a character describe it as functioning as a chief treasure port of Spain until 1686, and as losing to Cádiz most of what would earlier have been part of its trade, due to the combined effects of increasing vessel draft and of sedimentation at the mouth the river Guadalquivir.

Cajigal

Juan Manuel Cajigal (born 1754), Spanish Captain General born in Cádiz

Charles Tyler

Tyler was specially requested by Nelson for the Cadiz blockade in 1805, and thus participated in the battle of Trafalgar, although not before he was forced to travel to Naples where his son was under arrest for desertion from the navy (out of love for a ballerina) and crippling debts.

Chiclana

Chiclana de la Frontera, a town and municipality in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain

Curepto

It sailed from the port of Cadiz, bound the port of Callao in the Viceroyalty of Peru, loaded with huge fortunes of silver and gold pieces, stamps, fine cutlery, glassware manufactured by the "Granja de San Ildefonso", and luxurious furniture decorated with gold, costume seeds and precious fabrics.

Edwin Rich

Edwin Rich (1561–1600), of the Rich family, son of Robert Rich, 2nd Baron Rich, knighted on an expedition to Cadiz in 1596

El Bosque

El Bosque, Cádiz, in the province of Cádiz in Andalusia, southern Spain

Fernán Caballero

Born at Morges in Switzerland, she was the daughter of Johann Nikolaus Böhl von Faber, a Hamburg merchant, who lived long in Spain, married a native of Cádiz, and is creditably known to students of Spanish literature as the editor of the Floresta de rimas antiguas castellanas (1821–1825), and the Teatro español anterior a Lope de Vega (1832).

First Battle of Algeciras

As a result, the British Royal Navy became dominant in the Mediterranean Sea and imposed blockades on French and Spanish ports in the region, including the important naval bases of Toulon and Cadiz.

Francisco Espoz y Mina

The national government in Cadiz gave him rank, and by September 7th 1812 he had been promoted to the rank of commander-in-chief in Upper Aragon, on the left bank of the Ebro.

Francisco Tadeo Calomarde y Arría

In 1808, Calomarde followed the central junta of Aranjuez, the leader of which he had become, to Seville and Cádiz; however after the return of Ferdinand VII he was the first to acclaim the absolute monarch, for which he was named first administrator at the Secretaria general de Indias.

Franck Cammas

North Atlantic crossing (east to west) also called the "discovery route" (Cadiz - San Salvador): 7 days 10 hours 58 minutes and 53 secondes (1 May 2007)

Gram flour

It is used in Italian cuisine to make farinata, in French cuisine to make socca and in the cuisine of Cadiz in Southern Spain to make tortillitas de camarones.

Guadalcacín

Embalse de Guadalcacín, a reservoir in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain

Iglesia Mayor de San Pedro y San Pablo

It is near the Salt and Sea Hotel, the Museo Histórico Municipal de San Fernando, the town hall, and the bullfighting ring.

Ignacio Maria de Álava y Sáenz de Navarrete

However, two days later, a squadron under the command of Commodore Cosmao-Kerjulien succeeded in recapturing her and getting her back to Cadiz.

James Pattison Cockburn

They include A Voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar, with 30 coloured plates, published in 1815; Swiss Scenery, with 62 plates, in 1820; The Route of the Simplon, in 1822; The Valley of Aosta, in 1823 and Pompeii Illustrated, in folio, in 1827.

Jazmín López Becker

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Lopez competed in the women's RS:X class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by receiving a berth from the World Championships in Cadiz, Spain.

Karel Lavický

Lavicky competed in the men's RS:X class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by receiving a berth from the World Championships in Cadiz, Spain.

Kiko Veneno

He was brought up in a military home in Figueres, grew up in Cádiz finally settling down in Seville.

Louis Godin

The expedition sailed from Rochelle, May 16, 1735, touched at Cadiz to take two naval lieutenants, whom Philip V had ordered to accompany it, and proceeded to Santo Domingo, where they remained six months to take observations.

Marcia Bell

Among her circle of friends in those days we can cite: María del Carmen Martínez-Bordiú y Franco (Ex Duchess of Cadiz), Adolfo Suárez (former Spanish president), Carmen Cervera (Baroness Tita Thyssen - Bornemisza), Miguel Bosé (singer), Rocío Durcal (singer), Donna Hightower (singer) or Salvador Dalí (painter) to name a few.

Mathieu de Lesseps

Before the birth, in Versailles, of their third child, Ferdinand (1805–1894), they had a son, Théodore, born in Cádiz on 25 September 1802, married in 1828 to Antonia Denois (27 September 1802–29 December 1878), who died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 20 May 1874, and a daughter, Adélaïde (1803–1879), who married Jules Tallien de Cabarrus (1801–1870).

Military career of José de San Martín in Spain

Despite of the Spanish victory at the Battle of Albuera, where San Martín fought next to William Carr Beresford, France prevailed and conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula, with the exception of Cádiz.

Philip Vanbrugh

Philip Vanbrugh married Mary Griffith in Arnold, Nottinghamshire on 24 July 1715 and they had one known child, Philippia, born 1716, la belle consulesse, who married Burrington Goldsworthy of Down House, Dorset, British consul at Leghorn, Italy and later at Cadiz.

Rice, California

The subdivision and siding are still in use, but have since changed hands and currently belong to the Arizona and California Railroad, a short line serving southeastern California from Rice to Cadiz, California and southwestern Arizona at Parker.

Sharpe's Fury

Running from this first encounter, Sharpe and his small band of survivors are driven by Vandal into the fortress city of Cádiz, which is already besieged by a French army led by Marshal Victor.

Spanish colonization of the Americas

In 1500 the city of Nueva Cádiz was founded on the island of Cubagua, Venezuela, and it was followed by the founding by Alonso de Ojeda of Santa Cruz in present day Guajira peninsula.

Tagus

For example, in 1587, Sir Francis Drake briefly approached the river after his successful raid at Cadiz.

Tanya Anne Crosby

Tanya Anne Crosby was born on June 5, 1962 in Rota in Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain.

Thomas Coville

2005 : North Atlantic crossing (east to west) also called the "discovery route" (Cadiz - San Salvador): in 10 days 11 hours, 50 minutes and 46 seconds

Torre dels Escipions

It was built in the middle of the 1st century AD, to six kilometers from the city of Tarraco, capital of the Hispania Citerior, in the course of the Via Augusta, the Roman road that crossed the entire peninsula from the Pyrenees to Gades (Cadiz) and is one of the funerary monuments of the Roman era that still remain most important in the Iberian Peninsula.

Vía de la Plata

After its establishment, the Via Delapidata crossed Hispania from Cádiz, through the Pyrenees, towards Gallia Narbonensis (southern France) and Rome in the Italian Peninsula.

William Johnson Stone

He attended the common schools and Q.M. Tyler’s Collegiate Institute in Cadiz, Trigg County.

WKDZ

WKDZ-FM, a radio station (106.5 FM) located in Cadiz, Kentucky, United States

Zahara

Zahara de los Atunes, a village on the Costa de la Luz in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain.

Zuazo

Puente Zuazo, bridge located in San Fernando in the Province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain


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