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5 unusual facts about Santander


Division of the North

Romana and his men arrived at Santander, Spain, where he was appointed Commander of the Galician Armada.

Geo von Lengerke

His best-known haciendas were "Montebello" and "El Florito", located in what is now the town of Betulia, where he lived in a semi-feudal life of extravagance.

Mayflower High School

A house on site also facilitates the staying of language assistants, natives of either Germany, Spain or France, to assist students with their language studies, and all three subjects are complimented by trips to the relevant country, previous trips having sent students to Santander and Barcelona.

MV Bretagne

Bretagne has previously been used on Spanish routes, operating between Plymouth and Santander.

Santander

Gustavo Santander, Colombian composer and brother of Kike Santander


2009 Italian Grand Prix

The 2009 Italian Grand Prix (formally the LXXX Gran Premio Santander d'Italia) was a Formula One motor race held on September 13, 2009 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy.

2011 German Grand Prix

The 2011 German Grand Prix, formally the Formula 1 Großer Preis Santander von Deutschland 2011, was a Formula One motor race that was held on 24 July 2011, at the Nürburgring in Nürburg, Germany.

Álvaro Pombo

Born in Santander, Cantabria, he studied at the Complutense University of Madrid and received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he lived between 1966 and 1977.

Ana Patricia Botín

In November 2010, Ana Patricia became the successor of António Horta Osório as Chief Executive of Santander's UK Operation.

Basque Auxiliary Navy

They also played a key role in the evacuation of civilians who fled as the rebel armies advanced from coastal cities such as Gijón and Santander.

Capture of Bacharach

Córdoba left a garrison of 300 soldiers in Bacharach and sent most of his troops under the commanders Diego Ruiz and Baltasar de Santander to capture Kaub.

Central Library of Cantabria

In 1900 was built on the sands of Maliaño dock in the port area of Santander, the building now houses the BCC.

Cercanías

There are currently twelve Cercanías systems in Spain: Asturias, Bilbao, Catalonia, Cádiz, Madrid, Málaga, Murcia/Alicante, Santander, San Sebastián, Seville, Valencia, and Zaragoza.

Ernest Lluch

On January 2, 1989, he took up his position as Director of the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Santander.

Fausto Vega Santander

Fausto Vega Santander was born in Tuxpan, Veracruz, his parents were Albino Vega and María Santander.

Francisco de Paula Santander

Santander and his political sympathizers felt that this act betrayed liberalism and the ideology of the Age of Enlightenment, some even comparing Bolívar to Napoleon or Julius Caesar.

General Santander National Police Academy

The General Santander Academy holds strategic alliances primarily with the United States agencies Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) due to the recent War on Drugs and the implementation of the Plan Colombia which has become part of the War on terror and because of its experience on these it has become as one of the most apt educational centers for law enforcement in Latin America.

Giovanni Buscaglione

He designed buildings across many departments of Colombia including Amazonas, Antioquia, Bolívar, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Meta, Santander and Valle del Cauca.

Holly Hagan

Before Geordie Shore, Holly worked for HM Revenue and Customs and in sales at a Santander call centre, in hopes of launching a career as a glamour model.

HSenid Mobile Solutions

Financial institutions belonging to hSenid Mobile’s customer base include Santander Bank (Mexico), TODO 1 (USA), Seylan Bank (Sri Lanka) and HNB (Sri Lanka).

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán

He had a history of job instability and considered that he could get a position worthy of his status as a reincarnation of Santander and Quesada.

José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda

Between December 25, 1748, the date of the foundation of Llera, and 1755, he founded over twenty towns or villages and a number of missions in the colony, including Santander, Soto la Marina, Güemes, Camargo, Reynosa, Mier, and Revilla south of the Rio Grande, and Laredo and Nuestra Señora de los Dolores hacienda north of the Rio Grande.

Luis Enrique Delgado

Luis Enrique Delgado (born October 26, 1980 in Bucaramanga, Santander) is a Colombian football goalkeeper.

National University of Colombia

Some landmarks in the campus are the León de Greiff Auditorium, and the Francisco de Paula Santander Plaza, also known unofficially as the "Central Plaza" or the "Ché Plaza", in honour of Ernesto el Ché Guevara.

Nigel de Gruchy

After graduating, he taught English at the Berlitz Schools at Santander from 1965-6, and Versailles from 1966-7.

Ottery St Mary

The aircraft, an Alidair Vickers Viscount turboprop, flying 62 passengers from Santander to Exeter was eleven miles short of the runway over a wooded area on East Hill, just before the town, when it ran out of fuel and all four engines stopped.

Paola Rey

Paola Andrea Rey Arciniegas (born December 19, 1979 in San Gil, Santander, Colombia) is a Colombian actress and model.

Pasaje Del Terror

Pasaje Del Terror is an interactive walk-through horror attraction with branches in thirty different cities in Spain, including Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, Malaga, Salou, Santander, etc. as well as some of the major cities of the world, such as Rome, Lisbon, Blackpool, Buenos Aires, Bariloche, Cancun, San Salvador and Tokyo.

Pierre Maréchal

Son of the French entrepreneur, film producer and Titanic survivor of the same name, Pierre Maréchal won his first races — at Santander, Cantabria, driving hydroplanes owned by family friend Count Soriano — at the age of 13.

Pierre Raymond

One of the research works he has completed in the Santander department, concerns a traditional cottage industry which was then about to fall in disuse.

Racing Universitaire d'Alger

In the final Queens faced a Racing de Santander side who had just finished 4th in Spain's La Liga notching home and away double victories against both Real Madrid and F.C. Barcelona.

Roger Q. Williams

In July 1929 Williams, with Lewis Yancey, broke the over-water flying record by making a non-stop flight from Old Orchard Beach, Maine to Santander, Spain.

Santander Brasil

Santander is the fifth largest commercial bank in Brazil by assets, after Itaú Unibanco, Banco do Brasil, Bradesco and Caixa Econômica Federal.

Santander Group

On 10 June 2010, Grupo Santander announced an investment of approximately US$270 million (€200 million) in Campinas, Brazil for a technology centre, research and data processing, which will include a next-generation data centre.

In March 2008, Banco Santander sold Interbanca, a subsidiary of Banca Antonveneta, to GE Commercial Finance, receiving in return GE Money businesses in Germany, Finland and Austria, and GE's card and auto-financing businesses in the UK, which it integrated with Santander Consumer Finance.

Sherman Cárdenas

Sherman Andrés Cárdenas Estupiñán (born 7 August 1989 in Bucaramanga, Santander) is a Colombian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Atlético Nacional.

Stanislav Bartůšek

In 2000, his documentary named Za císaře... (For the Emperor...) presenting the life story of Czech cyclist Jan Veselý won the Juan Antonio Samaranch Award at the Santander Sports Movies Festival.

William Tatem, 1st Baron Glanely

On 14 July Molton tried to enter Republican-held Santander but the insurgent cruiser Almirante Cervera captured her and an insurgent armed trawler took Molton to Bilbao, which by then had fallen to Franco's forces.


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