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Valls (other)
Valls is a municipality in Catalonia, Spain. Valls may also refer to: * UE Valls, Spanish football club *Battle of Valls, battle of the Peninsular War *Les Valls de Valira, municipality in Catalonia, Spain *De Valls Bluff, Arkansas, town in the United States People *Josep Bargalló i Valls (born 1958), Spanish philologist * Carme Valls (born 1945), Spanish endocrinologist and politician * Carmen Valls (born 1926), Spanish fencer * Clà udia Valls, Spanish and Portuguese mathematician *Dino Valls (born 1959), Spanish painter *Francisco Valls, Spanish composer and music theorist * Jordi Valls i Pozo (born 1970), Spanish poet * Jorge Valls (born 1933), Cuban activist and poet *Manuel Valls (born 1962), French politician *Manuel Valls (composer) (1920–1984), Spanish composer * Oriol Valls (born 1947), American academic and physicist *Rafael Valls Rafael Valls Ferri (born 25 June 1987) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam . Career Born in C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valls
Valls () is a city and municipality in the province of Tarragona in Catalonia, Spain. According to the 2014 census it has a population of 24,570. Valls is known for its calçots – a type of scallion or green onion – and the human towers tradition known as the castells. The town is the birthplace of the composer Robert Gerhard (1896–1970). Geography Valls is the capital of the ''comarca'' of Alt Camp. With a population of 24,570 inhabitants in 2014, it represents more than half of the population of the county. It is located in the area known as Camp de Tarragona next to the River FrancolÃ, near Reus (Baix Camp) and Tarragona (Tarragonès), the capital of the province. Culture Valls is known for its culinary tradition, the feasting on calçots at what is known as a "calçotada". The calçots are a large type of sweet-flavoured spring onion, barbecued over a pit of flaming vines, and eaten piping hot with a sauce. The calçotada continues with a main course of meats and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Valls
Francisco Valls or Francesc Valls (Barcelona 1665/1671 - 2 February 1747) was a Spanish composer, theorist and '' mestre de capella.'' Among his most known works are the mass ''Missa Scala Aretina'' and tract ''Mapa Armónico Práctico''. Life In 1696 Francisco Valls left the Church of Santa Maria del Mar, Barcelona, and took up the post of '' Mestre de capella'' at Barcelona Cathedral. He wrote 10 masses, 17 psalm settings, 30 motets, several other sacred items and 141 secular compositions. Many of these are manuscripts lodged in the Biblioteca de Catalunya in Barcelona. Composition of the ''Missa Scala Aretina'' The ''Missa Scala Aretina'', so called in reference to Guido Aretinus' scale that appears in the cantus firmus (prominently audible in the Kyrie), caused a major musical controversy between 1715 and 1720, initiated by a pamphlet against Valls by the organist and theatre composer JoaquÃn MartÃnez de la Roca. ''Pro'' and ''anti'' groups were roughly equal, the famous com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Valls
Rafael Valls Ferri (born 25 June 1987) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam . Career Born in Cocentaina, Valls left at the end of the 2013 season, and joined for the 2014 season. In 2015, Valls had his biggest victory to date by winning the 2015 Tour of Oman, Tour of Oman and its fourth stage. In September 2015 it was announced that Valls would join from 2016 on a two-year deal. In August 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Tour de France. However, he crashed on the opening stage, and abandoned the race. Major results ;2005 : 3rd Spanish National Time Trial Championships, Time trial, National Junior Road Championships ;2008 : 9th Overall Grand Prix du Portugal ;2009 : 4th Overall Circuito Montañés : 10th Overall Tour de l'Avenir ;2010 : 2nd Vuelta a Mallorca, Trofeo Inca : 3rd Overall 2010 Tour de San Luis, Tour de San Luis ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 2 : 9th Vuelta a Mallorca, Trofeo Deia ;2014 : 8th Ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriol Valls
Oriol Tomas Valls (born 1947 in Barcelona, Spain) is a physics professor at the University of Minnesota. After obtaining his BSc in Physics at the University of Barcelona he earned a PhD at Brown University, in 1976. After a postdoctoral position at the University of Chicago he held a Miller Fellowship at the University of California Berkeley before joining the University of Minnesota faculty. He specializes in Condensed Matter Theory. He is an American Physical Society fellow since 1998 (search on year=1998 and institution=University of Minnesota) and has won the APS Outstanding Referee Award. From 2016 he has also been the Editor of the Newsletter published by the Forum of Physics and Society of the American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Valls (composer)
Manuel Valls i Gorina (; 21 July 1920 – 1984) was a Spanish composer, pianist, music critic, and music educator. Valls was born in Badalona. He was a first cousin of painter Xavier Valls, himself the father of former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls. He studied at the University of Barcelona and the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu. At the Liceu he was mentored by Aita Donostia with whom he studied music theory, music composition, and orchestration. He became a successful composer writing symphonic works, chamber music, choral music, operas, art songs, and songs for solo piano. For many years he taught composition at the University of Barcelona and wrote music reviews for ''El PaÃs''.. He died in Barcelona. Personal papers of Manuel Valls i Gorina are preserved in the Biblioteca de Catalunya. Manuel Valls is the composer of the music of "El Cant del Barça", the official anthem of FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly referred to as Barcelona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Valls
Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti (, , ; born 13 August 1962) is a French-Spanish politician who has served as a Barcelona city councillor from 2019 to 2021. He served as Prime Minister of France from 2014 until 2016 under president François Hollande. Born in Barcelona to a Spanish father and a Swiss mother, Valls was Mayor of Évry from 2001 to 2012 and was first elected to the National Assembly of France for Essonne in 2002. He was regarded as belonging to the Socialist Party's social liberal wing, sharing common orientations with Blairism. He was Minister of the Interior from 2012 to 2014 and Prime Minister from 2014 to 2016. He was a candidate in the Socialist Party primary for the 2017 presidential election, losing the Socialist nomination in the second round to Benoît Hamon. Following his defeat, he endorsed Emmanuel Macron despite having previously pledged to support the Socialist candidate. In the 2017 legislative election, he was re-elected by a narrow margin as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Valls
Jorge Valls Arango (February 2, 1933 – October 22, 2015) was a Cuban activist and poet of who spent more than two decades in prison for his opposition to Fidel Castro. He was born in Mañanan, now part of Havana. He was the son of a Catalan father and Cuban mother, and could read and write Catalan. He was first arrested in 1952 while a student at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Havana, when he demonstrated his opposition to the 1952 Batista ''coup d'état''. Valls was sentenced to a year in prison on July 22, 1955, for possession of a pipe bomb. University of Havana Chancellor Clemente Inclán persuaded Batista to quickly pardon him. In 1956, he joined the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil, a student group fighting the new regime. During the trial of Batista police informant Marcos RodrÃguez in 1964, Valls was denounced for having been "a known anti-Communist" in the University of Havana "who demanded that the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordi Valls I Pozo
Jordi Valls i Pozo (born in Barcelona, January 25, 1970) is a Spanish poet. Biography He has lived in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a city that strongly impressed his poetic trajectory, for the majority of his life. Jordi Valls presided The Associació de Joves Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (Association of Young Catalan Language Writers) from 1994 to 1996, and is a member of The Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana The Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (, "Association of Writers in the Catalan Language", or "Association of Catalan-Language Writers"), also known by the acronym AELC, is a professional organisation of authors, poets, scriptwriters, tra ... (AELC) and The PEN Club Català (Catalan PEN Club). Having won The Jocs Florals de la Llengua Catalana in 2006, he was the first author who holds the office of City Poet. Ernest Farrés, author of the anthology called ''21 poetes del XXI'' (2001), states that "In the hands of Jordi Valls poetry is not only su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dino Valls
Dino Valls is a Spanish painter born in 1959 in Zaragoza. Building on a childhood passion for drawing, Valls taught himself to paint in oils beginning in 1975. After completing his degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1982, Valls devoted himself full-time to the profession of painting. As one of the Spanish representatives of the vanguard of figurative art, Valls' work displays the strong influence of past masters and their studies of the human being. In the early '90s, Valls began studying the use of egg tempera, adapting and customizing the techniques of Italian and Flemish masters from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries to create new works in combinations of tempera and oil. His paintings elaborate and expand upon the methods of past masters, employing formal figurative techniques as the medium through which to explore the human psyche in a conceptual framework laden with profound psychological weight and symbolism. Valls has participated in important international exhibi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UE Valls
Unió Esportiva Valls is a Catalan football team based in Valls, in Tarragona province. Founded in 1980, it plays in Tercera División – Group 5, holding home matches at ''Camp del Vilar'', which has a capacity of 2,500 spectators. History The first football clubs in the history of Valls were Club Sporting Hispà nia FC, Valls FC, Germans Sant Gabriel and Regiment de Cavalleria, that defunct in the 1920s. In 1922 Valls Deportiu and Atlètic Vallenc (in the 1930s Penya Sempre Avant) were founded. Until 1969, there was no football team in Valls. That year, the football section of CB Valls was founded, which became independent in 1972. Unió Esportiva Valls was born in 1980 with the union of Valls CF and CF Quatre Barres. Club background :::::''Valls Club de Futbol'' - ''(1973–1980)'' → ↓ ::::::::::''Unió Esportiva Valls'' - ''(1980–present)'' :::::''Club de Futbol Quatre Barres'' - ''(1972–1980)'' → ↑ Club names * ''Unió Esportiva Valls-Quatre Barres'' (1980†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clà udia Valls
Clà udia Valls Anglés is a mathematician and an expert in dynamical systems. She is an associate professor in the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon in Portugal. Education Valls completed a doctorate at the University of Barcelona The University of Barcelona ( ca, Universitat de Barcelona, UB; ; es, link=no, Universidad de Barcelona) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, in Spain. With 63,000 students, it is one of the biggest universities i ... in 1999. Her dissertation, ''The Classical Arnold Example of Diffusion with Two Equal Parameters'', was supervised by . Books Valls is the co-author of books with LuÃs Barreira and others, including: *''Instability in Hamiltonian systems'' (with Antonio Pumariño, Electronic Journal of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations Monograph Series, Vol. 1, 2005) *''Stability of nonautonomous differential equations'' (with LuÃs Barreira, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 1926, Spri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Valls
MarÃa del Carmen Vall Arquerons (born 17 June 1926) is a Spanish fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held .... References External links * 1926 births Living people Spanish female foil fencers Olympic fencers for Spain Fencers at the 1960 Summer Olympics {{Spain-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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