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5 unusual facts about San Roque


Barbara Comyns Carr

After living in Barcelona for 16 years, they moved to San Roque in Andalusia.

Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned

San Roque, Cádiz (The original statue of St Mary was moved there in 1704, following the British takeover of Gibraltar)

Jaime Enrique Aymara

Aymara was born in Quito, Ecuador, in the San Roque on June 24, 1968 in the district of San Roque.

Kingdom of Gibraltar

When Gibraltar was captured by an Anglo-Dutch fleet on behalf of the Archduke Charles, claimant to the Spanish throne, in 1704, the city council and most of the population left, founding in 1706 the nearby town of San Roque.

San Roque, Cádiz

Alfonso XI of Castile took control of the territory by defeating a Muslim Merinid army in the 14th century.


Battle of Rodeo de Chacón

The civil war that broke out with the shooting of Manuel Dorrego by order of Juan Lavalle in Buenos Aires mostly took place in Córdoba Province, where the battles of San Roque, La Tablada and Oncativo were fought.

Elena Fortún

Encarna lived mainly in Madrid but also spent time in Tenerife in the Canary Islands, San Roque, Zaragoza, Barcelona, Valencia, France and Argentina.

San Felipe, Zambales

The local parish of the Catholic Church is dedicated to San Roque.


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Battle of San Roque

The Battle of San Roque's field is today under the waters of San Roque Lake, near today's city of Villa Carlos Paz.

Campo de Gibraltar

Following the capture of Gibraltar by Anglo-Dutch troops in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession and its subsequent cession, in 1713, to Great Britain, the former inhabitants of Gibraltar settled down permanently and the first villages were created: Algeciras, San Roque, and Los Barrios, still for many years officially termed the municipality of Gibraltar.

Kalookan Cathedral

In 1900, General Arthur MacArthur invaded Caloocan and the church of San Roque was made caballeriza by the Col. Frederick Funston Regiment.

La Quebrada

La Quebrada, Venezuela, also known as La Quebrada de San Roque, capital of Urdaneta Municipality, Trujillo.

Macabebe, Pampanga

Barangay San Roque celebrates fiesta every 1st Sunday of May in honor of Saint Roch but the Western celebrates his death every August 16 (13)

Pedro Roldán

Altarpiece of the Entombment of Christ, Saint George, Saint Roch, and the Virgin of Charity (Entierro de Cristo, San Jorge, San Roque y Virgen de la Caridad, Hospital de la Caridad, Seville.

Ramon, Isabela

Just recently, Bishop Sergio Utleg, DD, the Ordinary of the Diocese of Ilagan(now the Archbishop of Tuguegarao), offered the Parish of San Roque to remain under the "in perpetuum" care of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette.