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27 unusual facts about Seville


Antonio Castillo Lastrucci

His works can be found in the Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption in Ceuta, several churches of Seville, and in other parts of Spain.

CASA 2.111

There was a need for more modern aircraft, however, so in 1940, CASA negotiated a contract with Heinkel to produce 200 examples of the newer He 111 H-16 in Seville.

Castillo de la Real Fuerza

In 1634, Juan Vitrián de Viamonte added a watchtower with a weathervane sculpted in the form of a woman, by Gerónimo Martín Pinzón, an artist from Havana, and based on the figure crowning La Giralda in Seville.

Dimitri Ivanovich Dolgorukov

He held several diplomatic posts, first in Istanbul, Turkey, and then in the Russian Embassy in Madrid, Spain (1826–1830), in the late 1820s travelling with American diplomat and writer Washington Irving from Seville to Granada and staying at the Alhambra together between May and June 1827.

Donn Pohren

Hailing from Minneapolis, he moved to Seville, married the dancer Luisa Maravilla, had a daughter, and completed a university degree in Madrid.

Ensignbus

Starting in 1998 with an operation in Seville, in 1999 Ensignbus launched the City Sightseeing global sightseeing bus brand with a worldwide franchise model, and proceeded to rapidly expand into several cities.

Fausto Elhuyar

After Mexican Independence, he returned to Spain, where, due to his wide experience in modern minery methods, he was appointed Minister of Minery in 1822, and supervised the modern mining of the mines in Almadén, Guadalcanal, and Río Tinto.

Ferrand Martinez

Ferrand Martinez (fl. 14th century) was a Spanish cleric and archdeacon of Écija most noted for being an antisemitic agitator whom historians cite as the prime mover behind the series of pogroms against the Spanish Jews in 1391 beginning in the city of Seville.

Henschel Hs 123

Instead, the Hs 123s based in Seville were used for ground support, a role in which their range was not such a detriment, and where the ability to accurately place munitions was more important than carrying a large load.

Hispano HA-100

The Hispano HA-100 Triana (named for the district of Seville where the Hispano Aviación plant was located) was a military trainer aircraft developed in Spain in the 1950s.

Illuminés

Illuminés of France is a movement (under the name of Illuminés) which seems to have reached France from Seville in 1623, and attained some following in Picardy when joined (1634) by Pierce Guerin, curé of Saint-Georges de Roye, whose followers, known as Gurinets, were suppressed in 1635.

Jean Rikhoff

During this time she wrote her first novel, Dear Ones All, in Seville.

Keiller's marmalade

The ship had started its journey in Seville but the delay caused by the storm had made the oranges less fresh than they ought to have been.

Kiko Veneno

He was brought up in a military home in Figueres, grew up in Cádiz finally settling down in Seville.

During the 1980s he continued to publish songs but due to lack of commercial success he had to supplement his music working for the council of Seville.

Lodge Obreros de Hiram, no. 29

The Respectable Lodge Obreros de Hiram (Hiram's Workers), no. 29 is a masonic lodge in Seville (Spain), a liberal and adogmatic one, and under the auspices of the Gran Logia Simbólica Española.

Luis Castello Pantoja

Luis Castelló Pantoja (Guadalcanal, Seville, 1881 - Ibid., September 27, 1962), was a Spanish military Infantry General associated with the Spanish Civil War.

Macarena

Macarena, Seville, a neighborhood in Seville, Spain, where "La Macarena" is located

Panton Hill Football Club

In 1990 with former player and coach, Tony Cahir as President, former Seville Premiership player and coach Fritz Eigner, took over as Playing Senior Coach and brought a renewed enthusiasm and professionalism to the Club.

Party of Labour of Spain

The Catalan group unified with small splinter fractions of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), especially from Seville.

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.

RMS Ebro

These were the Portuguese Companhia Nacional de Navegação and Companhia Colonial de Navegação and the Spanish Ybarra, from Seville.

Seville, California

In March 2011, Catarina de Albuquerque of the United Nations visited Seville to evaluate the community's water system.

Sintra National Palace

King Manuel also redecorated most rooms of the Palace with polychromed tiles specially made for him in Seville.

Timeline of Magellan's circumnavigation

It was a Spanish expedition that sailed from Seville in 1519 under the command of Ferdinand Magellan in search of a martime path from the Americas to the Far East across the Pacific Ocean.

Urban park

Some early parks include the la Alameda de Hércules, in Seville, a promenaded public mall, urban garden and park built in 1574, within the historic center of Seville; the City Park, in Budapest, Hungary, which was property of the Batthyány family and was later made public.

Yvetot

Yvetot’s entry in the Dictionnaire des idées reçues by Gustave Flaubert, reads: "YVETOT: Voir Yvetot et mourir ! (See Yvetot and die) (cf. Naples and Seville)".


Abu al-Salt

Upon completing his mathematical education in Seville, and because of the continuing conflicts during the reconquista, he set out with his family to Alexandria and then Cairo in 1096.

Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd Al-Haqq

His father, Alfonso X fled to Seville, his support reduced to the Muslim-heavy districts of Andalusia and Murcia.

Alejo Fernández

Later works include the Virgin of the Rose in the church of St. Anne in Seville, showing Italian influences such as Pinturicchio and Raphael, as well as Lombard masters, and the The Virgin of the Navigators in the Alcázar of Seville.

Alfredo Jaar

His work has been shown extensively around the world, notably in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007), São Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010), Istanbul (1995), Kwangju (1995, 2000), Johannesburg (1997), and Seville (2006).

Alonso Rodriguez

Alphonsus (Alonso) Rodriguez (not to be confused with St. Alphonsus Rodriguez), (Valladolid, Spain, 1526; died at Seville 21 February, 1616)

Álvaro de Bazán, 2nd Marquis of Santa Cruz

The other male of the family, Fernando, became Chancellor, Rector, of the University of Salamanca, and later, after ecclesiastical jobs at Seville and Cordoba, Archbishop of Palermo, Sicily, Italy .

Alvaro Obertos de Valeto

Genoese family of Fíeseos who participated in the capture of Seville and Jerez in the service of Kingdom of Castile Fernando III and Alfonso X. His parents were Francisco de Morla and Francisca Martinez Obertos de Valeto, the daughter of Miguel Vargas Obertos de Valeto and Juana and Martinez Trujillo.

Ángel Pedraza

In the 1986 European Cup Final he was one of four Barça players – the others were José Ramón Alexanko, Pichi Alonso and Marcos – to have their penalty shootout attempts saved by FC Steaua Bucureşti goalkeeper Helmuth Duckadam, as the Catalans lost the decisive match in Seville (0–0 after 120 minutes).

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Murillo began his art studies under Juan del Castillo in Seville, he became familiar with Molanus (Ian van der Meulen or Molano) art rules and Flemish painting; the great commercial importance of Seville at the time ensured that he was also subject to influences from other regions.

Boliden AB

The same year also saw Boliden acquire the Spanish company, Apirsa S.L., which extracted zinc from the Aznalcóllar open pit mine, 45 km west of Seville.

Bolivian War of Independence

On November 11, the representative of the Junta of Seville, José Manuel de Goyeneche, arrived in Chuquisaca, after stopping in Buenos Aires, with instructions to secure Upper Peru's recognition of authority of the Seville Junta.

Colombian art

Another Seville native, Baltasar de Figueroa El Viejo (1629–1667), settled in Bogotá in the early 17th century and set up an artist's workshop.

Dudum siquidem

According to Davenport, no copy of this bull has been found in the records of the Vatican, but in the General Archive of the Indies in Seville two original manuscripts of it survive, both with the papal lead seal attached, although not marked "Registrata", as is usual.

Eduardo Alonso Colmenares

Born in Corella on October 13 1820, after qualifying in law in Madrid he practised law there and in Pamplona after which he became a judge and public prosecutor in the Courts of Seville, Barcelona and Granada until in 1859 when he moved to the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean.

Factotum

Largo al factotum, an aria from The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini

Howell's School Llandaff

In 1537, Thomas Howell, a Welsh merchant trading in Bristol, London and Seville, bequeathed 12,000 gold ducats to the Drapers' Guild to provide dowries “every yere for Maydens for ever.” His “Merchant’s Mark” is still used as a logo for the school.

Instituto Nacional de Colonización

Many of the new villages were given a name related to the nearest river or even a name with an explicit reference to the Caudillo in order to cast a benevolent image of dictator Francisco Franco, like Llanos del Caudillo, Villafranco del Delta, a village in the Montsià comarca nowadays rechristened as El Poblenou del Delta or Isla Mayor near Seville, the former Villafranco del Guadalquivir.

Japanese people in Spain

Instead of returning to Japan in 1617, six samurai remained in Coria del Río, near Seville.

John of Ávila

While waiting in Seville, his unusually great devotion in celebrating Mass, and his skills in catechesis and preaching, attracted the attention of Hernando de Contreras, a local priest, who mentioned him to the Archbishop of Seville and Inquisitor General, Alonso Manrique de Lara.

Joint Research Centre

The JRC has seven scientific institutes, located at six different sites in Belgium (Brussels and Geel), Germany (Karlsruhe), Italy (Ispra), the Netherlands (Petten) and Spain (Seville), with a wide range of laboratories and unique research facilities.

Luis Antonio Ribera

He was one of the artists who contributed in 1668 to the formation of the Seville Academy of painters established by Herrera and Murillo.

Magnetorheological fluid

It made its debut in both Cadillac (Seville STS build date on or after 1/15/2002 with RPO F55) as "Magneride" (or "MR") and Chevrolet passenger vehicles (All Corvettes made since 2003 with the F55 option code) as part of the driver selectable "Magnetic Selective Ride Control (MSRC)" system in model year 2003.

Mediapro

MediaPro is based in Barcelona, with branch offices in Girona, Amsterdam, Budapest, Lisbon, Madeira, Madrid, Miami, Porto, Qatar, Seville and Tenerife.

Mudéjar

Decorative arts of Mudéjar inspiration are also found in the tile patterns of churches and palaces, such as the 16th-century tiles, imported from Seville, that decorate the Royal Palace of Sintra.

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.

Pedro Sanchez Falconete

In 1644, on the foundations of the medieval humanitarian Hospital de la Caridad, Seville, a new church was erected to plans of Falconete, altered in the long, slow course of construction by Leonardo de Figueroa.

Pilar Bardem

Born María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz to performers Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro in Seville, Bardem began her screen career in 1965.

Pitch shift

Alvin and the Chipmunks recordings with David Seville (aka Ross Bagdasarian) were created by recording vocal tracks at slow speeds, then playing them back at normal speeds.

Puerto Rican Spanish

People from working class areas of Seville can sometimes sound almost indistinguishable from Puerto Ricans (Zatu, the singer of the band SFDK from the Pino Montano district of Seville being an example).

Rafael Merry del Val

The del Vals were an Aragonese family originally from Zaragoza, claiming descent from a twelfth-century Breton crusader; the surname Merry came from a line of Irish merchants from County Waterford, Ireland, who settled in the late eighteenth century in Seville, Spain.

Sania Ramel Airport

The Tetouan airport continued to be relevant for the new regime and despite fuel supply restrictions two routes continued to make stopovers at Sania Ramel during the early post-war period: Madrid-Seville-Tetouan-Melilla and Seville-Tetouan-Canary Islands.

Sara Baras

In July 1999, on the Patio of the Casa Pilatos in Seville, she was filmed for Mission: Impossible II.

Sierro

Francisco Jimenez Ontiveros, engineer and lawyer, belonged to Sierro's most prominent family, which included his brother, Federico Jimenez Ontiveros, a medical doctor, hospital director in Seville, and General in the Spanish Air Force.

Sisco Gomez

His father, who originates from Seville, Spain, was a draughtsman at the Seville shipyard and moved to England around 1954; his mother is from Cali, Colombia, es Vallecaucano.

Son de Sol

Son de Sol (in English, Sound of the Sun) is a Spanish flamenco-pop band, made up of three sisters (Sole, Esperanza and Lola) from Écija, Seville, Andalusia.

Spanish maravedí

By 1531 these coins were still being minted, by now in both Seville and Burgos, and subsequent shipments have been confirmed to other areas such as: Mexico, Panama and Puerto Rico.

Tesfayohannes Mesfin

His personal best times are 13:27.06 minutes in the 5000 metres (Seville, 2006); 28:19.88 minutes in the 10,000 metres (Bambous, 2006); 1:03:08 hours in the half marathon (Edmonton, 2005) and 2:12:17 hours in the marathon (Hamburg Marathon, 2008).

The Joker of Seville

The Joker of Seville is an epithet for Don Juan.

Warfhuizen

The church is especially known for its statue of the Mother of Sorrows, sculpted by one of the renowned procession-sculptors of Seville, Miguel Bejarano Moreno.