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unusual facts about Rioja



Alto Mayo Protection Forest

It is situated in the departments of San Martín, in the Yorongos, Rioja, Elías Soplín Vargas, Nuevo Cajamarca districts, and in the Rioja and Moyobamba provinces.

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.

CV Haro

Club Voleibol Haro, also known as Haro Rioja Voley is a Spanish volleyball club from Haro in La Rioja.

Elciego

This town lies in the world-famous Rioja wine-production region, and is home to the cutting-edge Hotel Marqués de Riscal, opened in 2006, designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry.

Engracia

Santa Engracia del Jubera, village in the province and autonomous community of La Rioja, Spain

Félix Luna

A grandfather had founded the La Rioja chapter of the newly established centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR) in 1892, and an uncle, Pelagio Luna, had been Vice President of Argentina for President Hipólito Yrigoyen, between 1916 and 1919.

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.

La Rioja Province, Argentina

After the younger Menem was elected governor of La Rioja Province in March 1973, he implemented a number of reforms advocated by activists for the poor, rural majority, particularly those recommended by Bishop Enrique Angelelli.

Luis de Olona

Other works which are worth mentioning are his zarzuelas Galanteos en Venecia (1853), El sargento Federico (1855), El postillón de La Rioja (1856) by Cristóbal Oudrid, with whom he worked from 1851-1856, Casado y soltero (1858), Los circasianos (1860), and Joaquín Gaztambide's El juramento (1863).

War of the Three Sanchos

Castile retook Álava, the Montes de Oca, and Pancorvo, as well as Bureba and Alta Rioja, but the conflict ended in a stalemate 1067 when the death of Sancha of León, Ferdinand's widow, opened the way to war between Ferdinand's sons.


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