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4 unusual facts about Villafranca


Honoré d'Urfé

He died from injuries received by a fall from his horse at Villafranca during a campaign against the Genoese.

Infrared Space Observatory

After early commissioning primary control over ISO was handed over to the Spacecraft Control Centre (SCC) at Villafranca in Spain (VILSPA) for the remainder of the mission.

Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein

The house of Carignano developed two junior branches, those of Soissons and Villafranca.

Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity

The Data Processing Ground Segment (CDTI, Villafranca, Spain) will process SMOS data through the X-band.


A.S.D. Villafranca

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Villafranca is an Italian association football club, based in Villafranca di Verona, Veneto.

Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais

On the Astorga road not far from Villafranca, Colbert's troopers captured 2,000 prisoners and wagon trains carrying rifles, as well as releasing some French troops captured by the English.

Juan Páez Hurtado

Hurtado was born in Villafranca de las Marismas (Villafranca of the Marshes), in Seville (Andalusia, Spain).

Michael Eytzinger

Eytzinger’s method was used by Jerónimo de Sosa, in his work Noticia de la gran casa de los marqueses de Villafranca in 1676, and was popularized by Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz in his Ahnentafel-atlas in 1898.

Raffaello Pontremoli

In 1866 he followed the armies again, and illustrated two events: Prince Umberto at Villafranca amid the quadrato of the 49th infantry and Prince Amedeo wounded at the attack of Cavalchina near Custoza, now found in Palazzo Pitti of Florence.

Second Italian War of Independence

Fear of involvement by the German states led Napoleon to seek a way out of the war, so he signed an armistice with Austria in Villafranca.

Spánverjavígin

Captain Martín de Villafranca of San Sebastián, whose father and grandfather had both been involved in Terra Nova whaling was among those who were killed.

Villafranca del Bierzo

In the Codex Calixtinus Villafranca is mentioned as an intermediate stage between Rabornal and Triacastela.


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