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unusual facts about Sevilla



2011 Trophée des Alpilles – Singles

Jerzy Janowicz was the defending champion, but decided to play in Sevilla instead.

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.

Alfredo Javaloyes López

In 1901, he became Music Director to the Sevilla Regiment 33 in Cartagena.

Alonso de Castillo Solórzano

Shortly afterwards he joined the household of the Marquis de los Vélez, Viceroy of Valencia, and published in quick succession three clever picaresque novels: La Niña de los embustes, Teresa de Manzanares (1634), Las Aventuras del Bachiller Trapaza (1637), and a continuation entitled La garduña de Sevilla y anzuelo de las bolsas (1642).

Álvaro Negredo

Negredo was an undisputed first-choice for Sevilla in the 2010–11 campaign – Fabiano also returned to São Paulo FC in March 2011 – scoring 27 official goals, 20 in the league.

Carlos Sevilla

Carlos Edmundo Sevilla Dalgo (born August 26, 1950 in Atuntaqui, Imbabura) in an Ecuadorian former football player and manager of El Nacional.

Elisabete Matos

After all these successes, Elisabete Matos has sung in many major opera houses around the world, like the Gran Teatre del Liceu, La Fenice, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos (Lisbon), Teatro Real, La Scala, Maestranza de Sevilla, Teatro Regio di Torino and the Teatro di San Carlo (Naples).

Enrique García-Máiquez

G. K. Chesterton Lepanto y otros poemas. Poemas escogidos (Renacimiento, Sevilla, 2003).

G. K. Chesterton, La cosa y otros artículos de fe (coedited with Aurora Rice) (Renacimiento, Sevilla 2010).

Francisco Bravo

Of Dr. Bravo it is only known that he was a native of Osuna, and began to practice at Sevilla in 1553.

German Aerospace Center

It has a capacity of eleven megawatt and it is located near Sevilla, in Sanlúcar la Mayor (Spain).

Goiás, Goiás

There is a great resemblance with some traditions that take place in Spain at the same time of year especially in Toledo and Sevilla.

Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom

Though it is unknown at what age he started on his travels, Vroom was born into a family of artists and began his career as a pottery (faience) painter and when his mother remarried, was no older than 19 when he rebelled against his stepfather who insisted he stick to pottery painting, by boarding a ship for Spain (Sevilla) and from thence via Livorno and Florence to Rome.

Hotel Sevilla

The Hotel Sevilla in Havana, Cuba, was built in 1908 as a four-story Moorish structure on Calle Trocadero, next to the Paseo del Prado, between the Malecón, and Parque Central by architects Arellano y Mendoza.

House of Zúñiga

Diego Ortiz de Zúñiga, (1633 - 1680) Historian, writer, author of "Discurso Genealógico de los Ortices de Sevilla" and "Annales Eclesiásticos y Seculares de la Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Sevilla...desde el año de 1246...hasta el de 1671..."

Jean-Paul Sevilla

Now a Canadian citizen as well, for more than twenty years Jean-Paul Sevilla has lived in Ottawa, Canada where he is now Professor Emeritus of the University of Ottawa, after being a full professor of piano, chamber music and piano literature at the University of Ottawa, while continuing his successful career as a concert pianist, lecturer and "clinician".

Jeremías

During 2003, he appeared live in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla, Cordova, Bilbao, Zaragoza, Salamanca, Canary Islands, among others, having received a great acclamation from the Spanish public as well as music critics in Spain.

Jesuli

In his second spell at Sevilla, Jesuli appeared sporadically: he was restricted to Copa del Rey matches in 2006–07 and not registered at all (alongside teammate Fernando Sales) in the following season, while also hampered by several injuries.

John McEntee Bowman

Bowman was responsible for the building of the golfing country club, the Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York and counted the New York Biltmore Hotel in New York City, the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, in Los Angeles, California, the Coral Gables Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Florida, and the Sevilla-Biltmore Hotel in Havana, Cuba as part of his extensive hotel holdings.

Juana la Macarrona

She landed her first regular job at a café cantante in Sevilla, but she earned more in the streets by the equivalent of "passing the hat".

Maestro Armando Ortega

Many of his works were performed by the stars of his age: the tenor Raphael J. Sevilla, the first ballet dancer Luis Mauricio Caracas, the singer Betty Fabila, Maestro Ramón Noble, the Baritone Fernando Vivanco Barceló, and performances from the Maestro himself, who had a wonderful voice too.

Peñate

There is also a relatively high concentration on Peñates in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Huelva, Sevilla, Madrid, and Barcelona.

Rodilla

Between 1993 and 1995 five new establishments were opened, and today it has a total of 72 restaurants; 63 in Madrid, 5 in Valencia, 2 in Barcelona, 2 in Sevilla, 1 in Toledo and 1 in Segovia.

Santo Trafficante, Jr.

As a leading member of the syndicate, it was suspected that he also had behind-the-scenes interests in other syndicate-owned Cuban gambling casinos namely, the Hotel Habana Riviera, the Tropicana Club, the Sevilla-Biltmore, the Capri Hotel Casino, the Commodoro, the Deauville, and the Havana Hilton.

Solucar Complex

The first two power plants to be brought into operation at Sanlúcar la Mayor are the PS10, and Sevilla PV, the largest low concentration system photovoltaic plant in Europe.

William Nixon

After serving a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sevilla, Spain, he graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he attended on a football scholarship, playing center prior to the arrival of National Football League quarterback Randall Cunningham, and was the editor-in-chief of The Rebel Yell, the student newspaper.


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