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José Lino Vaamonde
José Lino Vaamonde Valencia (20 April 1900 – 3 October 1986) was a Spanish architect who played a leading role in preserving the nation's artistic treasures during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Following the civil war he went into exile in Venezuela, where he became the head architect of the Shell subsidiary and developed a range of buildings including service stations, oil camps, colleges and office buildings. Early years (1900–1936) José Lino Vaamonde Valencia was born in Alongos, Orense, Spain, on 20 April 1900. He was one of eight brothers born into a well-off family connected with the counts of Torre de Penela. He studied Exact Sciences at the Central University (1921) and Architecture at the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (1927). He qualified as an architect in 1928. He was also secretary of the Real Madrid football club. Vaamonde participated in construction of the Madrid Metro and the Ourense-Santiago railway. He worked at the Cadastre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Ourense
Ourense (in Spanish, ''Orense'') is a Spanish province, in the southeastern part of the autonomous community of Galicia. It is bordered by the provinces of Pontevedra to the west, Lugo to the north, León and Zamora, (which both belong to Castile and León) to the east, and by Portugal to the south. With an area of 7,278 square km., it is the only landlocked province in Galicia. The provincial capital, Ourense, is the largest population centre, with the rest of the province being predominantly rural. Denomination ''Ourense'' (in Galician) is the official name adopted by Parliament in Spain, according to Law 2/1998. Geography Ourense is surrounded by mountains on all sides. These mountains historically isolated the province from the more populated Galician coast. Until a highway was built in recent years linking Ourense with Vigo in the west and Benavente in the east, the only quick way for people to enter or leave the province was by railway. The principal river system is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torres De Serranos
The Serrans Gate or Serranos Gate ( ca-valencia, Porta dels Serrans, ; es, Puerta de Serranos, ), also known as Serrans Towers or Serranos Towers ( ca-valencia, Torres dels Serrans, ; es, Torres de Serranos, ) is one of the twelve gates that formed part of the ancient city wall, the Christian Wall (''Muralla cristiana''), of the city of Valencia, Spain. It was built in Valencian Gothic style at the end of the 14th century (between 1392 and 1398). Its name is probably due to its location in the northeast of the old city centre, making it the entry point for the royal road (''camí ral'') connecting Valencia with the ''comarca'' or district of ''Els Serrans'' (along the road going northwest towards the mountains around Teruel and eventually leading to Saragossa) as well as the entry point for the royal road to Barcelona, or because the majority of settlers near there in the time of James I of Aragon were from the area around Teruel, whose inhabitants were often called ''serrans' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punto Fijo
Punto Fijo is the capital city of the municipality of Carirubana in northern Falcón State, Venezuela. It is located on the southwestern coast of the Paraguaná Peninsula. Its metropolitan area includes the parishes of Norte, Carirubana, Punta Cardón and the parish of Judibana in the municipality of Los Taques. Punto Fijo is the largest city in Falcón State. History Punto Fijo was founded in the early 1940s, on the outskirts of two refinery operations established by Standard Oil and Shell during the 1940s. Despite the name of the 1958 Puntofijo Pact, Punto Fijo is unrelated to the pact (the pact was signed at Puntofijo Residence in Caracas). Punto Fijo has an estimated population of 270,000 (est. 2002 census), mostly in the urban center. Punto Fijo's name is commonly attributed to the late Rafael González Estaba, former city historian, who said that the place where the city now stands was a common stop (the "fixed point") for passers-by and fishermen. Economy Punto Fijo ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maracaibo
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Punta Cardón
Punta Cardón is a town and parish in the Carirubana autonomous municipality of Falcón state, Venezuela. The town was once a poor fishing community on the Gulf of Coro on the northwest coast of Venezuela. Since the mid-1940s the community has become surrounded by the Paraguana- oil-refining complex, which today is run by PDVSA, the state oil company. The Spanish architect José Lino Vaamonde José Lino Vaamonde Valencia (20 April 1900 – 3 October 1986) was a Spanish architect who played a leading role in preserving the nation's artistic treasures during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Following the civil war he went into exile ... built the Club Manaure in Punta Cardón (1953) for Shell Venezuela. Notes Sources * * {{DEFAULTSORT: Cities in Falcón ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lagunillas, Mérida
Lagunillas is the capital city of the municipality of Sucre in the state of Mérida, Venezuela. It is from the city of Mérida. The old town is of interest to tourists. The town is known for the large number of artifacts created with local materials. Lagoon The city is in a semi-arid zone in the middle basin of the Chama River, with a warm, dry climate. It contains the Laguna de Urao, a natural lagoon that helps cool the air, and adds humidity, named after an indigenous word for sodium sesquicarbonate, which is found in the lake. This material was traditionally used to make . This lagoon is full of brackish water. The French chemist Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1801–1887) discovered the mineral Gaylussite in the lagoon in 1826. It is named for the French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (, , ; 6 December 1778 – 9 May 1850) was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cagua
Cagua () is a city of Venezuela, capital of the Sucre Municipality of Aragua State. Cagua is part of the metropolitan area of Maracay. History Cagua was established in 1620 as "Cagua La Vieja", a town of original Spaniards. Cagua was rebuilt in its current location in 1622 with the new name of "Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Cagua", which was changed to "San José de Cagua" during the 18th century. The city is now known simply as Cagua. The origin of the name comes from the indigenous Cumanagoto word ''"Cahigua"'', which means snail. Geography Cagua is located at 458 meters above sea level in the valley of Aragua, in the northwestern part of the Aragua State. Its climate is Köppen's Tropical savannah. Cagua is one of the most important cities of Aragua state because it is close to Maracay (about 14 km away), the capital city of Aragua, it is close to Valencia, Carabobo (about 65 km away) and it is also nearby Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 boroughs or ''demarcaciones territoriales'', which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or ''colonias''. The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban agglomeration in the Western Hemisphere (behind São Paulo, Brazil), and the largest Spanish language, Spanish-speaking city (city proper) in the world. Greater Mexico City has a gross domestic product, GDP of $411 billion in 2011, which makes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sede BFC
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Sede may refer to: People * Gérard de Sède * Marc Dion Sédé (born 1987), Ivorian football player Places * Sede, Ethiopia * Sede, district of Santa Maria, Brazil Other * SEDE, the Subcommittee on Security and Defence of the European Parliament See also * Sde (other) * SDE (other) Sde ( he, שְׂדֵה, link=no), also sometimes transliterated Sede, is a Hebrew word meaning ''field'' and may refer to the following places: * Sde Boaz * Sde Boker * Sde David * Sde Eliezer * Sde Eliyahu * Sde Ilan * Sde Moshe * Sde Nahum * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Bernardino, Libertador, Caracas
San Bernardino is a residential neighbourhood of the Venezuelan municipality Libertador of Caracas, and one of its 32 parishes. Although it is mostly a middle class residential neighbourhood, San Bernardino holds some of the most important Venezuelan hospitals and some enterprises within its territory like the headquarters of one of the biggest banks of the country Banco Mercantil, the headquarters of Banco Venezolano de Crédito, Corpoelec the fully integrated state power corporation of Venezuela and the Centro Financiero Confinanzas Centro Financiero Confinanzas (English: Confinanzas Financial Center), also known as Torre de David (the Tower of David), is an unfinished abandoned skyscraper in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. It is the third highest skyscraper in the count .... In this district it's also located one of the most important museums of Caracas, the Museum of Colonial Art "La Quinta de Anauco". Neighbourhoods of Caracas Parishes of Capital District (Ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valencia, Carabobo
Valencia () is the capital city of Carabobo State and the third-largest city in Venezuela. The city is an economic hub that contains Venezuela's top industries and manufacturing companies. It is also the largest city in the Valencia-Maracay metropolitan region, which with a population of about 4.5 million is the country's second largest after that of Caracas. Caracas lies some away to the east. History The area was already inhabited in the fourth millennium BC. The inhabitants were mainly hunters and gatherers who might have already developed some elementary forms of agriculture. Between AD 200 and 1000 an important settlement was formed close to Lake Valencia. Around the year 1000, waves of migration started to come from the Orinoco river area, probably arriving along the Pao river. The fusion of previous settlements with these new populations gave rise to the Vacencioide culture. People in the area belonged mostly to Arawak groups. They were hunters and gatherers who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Kent
Victoria Kent Siano (March 6, 1891 – September 25, 1987) was a Spanish lawyer and republican politician. Biography Born in Málaga, Spain, Kent was affiliated to the Radical Socialist Republican Party and came to fame in 1930 for defending – at a court martial – Álvaro de Albornoz, who shortly afterward would go on to become minister of justice and later the future president of the Republican government in exile (1947 to 1949 and 1949 to 1951). She became a member of the first Parliament of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931. That same year, the President of the Republic, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, appointed her Director General of Prisons, a post she held until 1934, and she actively continued the reforms in the prison service that had been started by Concepción Arenal. Kent was against giving women the right to vote immediately, arguing that, as Spanish women lacked at that moment enough social and political education to vote responsibly, they would be very much influen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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