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Lía Rovira
Lía Rovira (born 17 November 2000) is a former Spanish rhythmic gymnast who competed with the national group of Spain. Personal life Rovira took up gymnastics at the Club Mabel of Benicarló. Her idol is Evgeniya Kanaeva, her ambition was to compete at the 2020 Olympic Games. Outside the gym her hobbies are reading and watching movies. Career Lía's first National Championship was in Benidorm in 2012, participating in the pre junior category with clubs and winning silver. Junior As a junior, in 2013, she was proclaimed national group champion in Granada and was 4th in the team competition at individual nationals in Valladolid. That same year she attended for the first time several trainings held at the CEARD in León. In the individual national championships held in Granada in 2014, she achieved the 5th position in the teams category and was classified among the 10 best gymnasts in the junior category. Junior In September 2014 she was awarded a scholarship by the Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peniscola
Peníscola () or Peñíscola (), anglicised as Peniscola, is a municipality in the Province of Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain. The town is located on the Costa del Azahar, north of the Serra d'Irta along the Mediterranean coast. It is a popular tourist destination. History Peniscola, often called the "Gibraltar of Valencia", and locally as "The City in the Sea", is a fortified seaport, with a lighthouse, built on a rocky headland about 220 feet (67 m) high, and joined to the mainland by only a narrow strip of land (tombolo). ''Peníscola'' is a local evolution of Latin '' peninsula''. The history of the place goes back to the Iberians. Later the town became Phoenician, named ''Tyreche'', then Greek, under the name ''Chersonesos'' (meaning "peninsula"). It was next captured by the Carthaginians under Hamilcar Barca; legend has it that this is the place where he made his son Hannibal swear an oath that he would never be a friend of Rome. The present castle was built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Valentine
Miss Valentine is an international gymnastics tournament in Tartu, Estonia. The event was first held in 1995 and, as of 2020, has been hosted annually. The event hosts rhythmic gymnastics and aesthetic group gymnastics competitions. FIG World Cup In 2013 for the first time Miss Valentine hosted a Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup stage. Grand Prix In 2020, Miss Valentine served as the third stage of the Rhythmic Gymnastics Grand Prix series. It was the first time that the Nordic and Baltic regions received a Grand Prix stage.Miss Valentine Accessed on March 8, 2020. See also * * |
Tarragona
Tarragona (, ; Phoenician: ''Tarqon''; la, Tarraco) is a port city located in northeast Spain on the Costa Daurada by the Mediterranean Sea. Founded before the fifth century BC, it is the capital of the Province of Tarragona, and part of Tarragonès and Catalonia. Geographically, it is bordered on the north by the Province of Barcelona and the Province of Lleida. The city has a population of 201,199 (2014). History Origins One Catalan legend holds that Tarragona was named for ''Tarraho'', eldest son of Tubal in c. 2407 BC; another (derived from Strabo and Megasthenes) attributes the name to ' Tearcon the Ethiopian', a seventh-century BC pharaoh who campaigned in Spain. The real founding date of Tarragona is unknown. The city may have begun as an Iberian town called or , named for the Iberian tribe of the region, the Cossetans, though the identification of Tarragona with Kesse is not certain. William Smith suggests that the city was probably founded by the Phoenicians, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plaza De Colón
Plaza de Colón (''Columbus Square'', in English) is located in the encounter of Chamberí, Centro and Salamanca districts of Madrid, Spain. This plaza and its fountain commemorate the explorer Christopher Columbus, whose name in Spanish was Cristóbal Colón. Monuments The plaza, originally called Plaza de Santiago (''St. James Square''), was renamed Plaza de Colón in 1893 to honor Christopher Columbus. The square contains two monuments. On the Paseo de la Castellana side there is a monument to Columbus whose base was finished in 1885. It is topped by a statue of Columbus. The second monument near the Calle de Serrano consists of a group of concrete macro-sculptures by Joaquín Vaquero Turcios. The concrete blocks are decorated with inscriptions by philosophers and indigenous leaders. Flag Since Spain's National Day in 2001, the world's largest Spanish flag—14m x 21m (46 x 69 ft)—294 square meters (3164 square feet)—has flown from a flagpole in Plaza de Colón ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. These were the fourth Summer Olympic Games, Summer Olympics to be hosted by the United States, and marked the centennial of the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, the inaugural edition of the modern Olympic Games. These were also the first Summer Olympics since 1924 to be held in a different year than the Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics, as part of a new International Olympic Committee, IOC practice implemented in 1994 to hold the Summer and Winter Games in alternating, even-numbered years. The 1996 Games were the first of the two consecutive Summer Olympics to be held in a predominantly English-speaking world, English-speaking country preceding the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. These were also the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba Sárrias
''Alba'' ( , ) is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland. It is also, in English language historiography, used to refer to the polity of Picts and Scottish people, Scots united in the ninth century as the Kingdom of Alba, until it developed into the Scotland in the Late Middle Ages, Kingdom of Scotland of the late Middle Ages following the absorption of Kingdom of Strathclyde, Strathclyde and English-speaking Lothian in the 12th century. It is cognate with the Irish term ' (gen. ', dat. ') and the Manx language, Manx term ', the two other Goidelic languages, Goidelic Insular Celtic languages, as well as contemporary words used in Cornish language, Cornish (') and Welsh language, Welsh ('), both of which are Brythonic languages, Brythonic Insular Celtic languages. The third surviving Brythonic language, Breton language, Breton, instead uses ', meaning 'country of the Scots'. In the past, these terms were names for Great Britain as a whole, related to the Brythonic name Albion. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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