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unusual facts about Province of Granada


Roman Catholic Diocese of Guadix

The diocese of Guadix comprises the greater part of the Province of Granada and a portion of the Province of Almería.


Alonso Verdugo, 3rd Count of Torrepalma

His mother was one of the daughters of Sancho de Castilla y Lasso de Castilla, 9th Señor de Gor, province of Granada, señor de Alboloduy, province of Almeria, and Herrera de Valdecañas, province of Palencia, an illegitimate descent of King Pedro I of Castile, (assassinated by his bastard brother Enrique, afterwards King Enrique II of Castile in Montiel in March 1369).

Hacho Bridge

In 1889, the Southern Spanish Railway company began building a line from Guadix, in the province of Granada in Spain.

Lady of Baza

It is a limestone female figure with traces of painted detail in a stuccoed surface that was found on July 22, 1971 by Francisco José Presedo Velo, at Baza, in the altiplano, the high tableland in the northeast of the province of Granada.

Paquillo Fernández

Francisco Javier Fernández Peláez, more known as Paquillo Fernández, (born on 6 March 1977 in Guadix, Province of Granada, Andalusia) is a Spanish race walker.

Solar power in Spain

The Andasol 1 solar power station is Europe’s first parabolic trough commercial power plant (50 MWe), located near Guadix in the province of Granada, also in Andalusia (the plant is named after the region).


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Cascamorras

The Fiesta de Cascamorras is a festival that takes place in the towns of Guadix and Baza in the province of Granada, Spain, annually on September 6.

Costa de Almería

Poniente Almeriense is in the southwest of the province, adjacent to the province of Granada, and includes the coastal municipalities of Adra, Berja, El Ejido (including Almerimar), Roquetas de Mar, and Enix.

Pinar

Píñar, municipality located in the province of Granada, Spain