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Seville Expo '92
The Universal Exhibition of Seville 1992 – Expo '92 (officially: ) was a universal exhibition held from Monday 20 April to Monday 12 October 1992, at the , in Seville, Spain. The theme for the expo was "The Age of Discoveries", celebrating the Columbus Quincentenary, 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus reaching the Americas, and over 100 countries were represented. The site of the exposition covered and the total number of visitors was 41,814,571. The exposition ran at the same time as the smaller and shorter-duration Genoa Expo '92, a Specialized Exhibition, held in memory of Christopher Columbus in Genoa. After the exhibition, the site was divided between the Cartuja 93, Cartuja Science and Technology Park, which uses many of the pavilions and structures built for the fair, and the grounds where the theme park and the water park were later built. Administrative services and city facilities have also moved to some of the buildings and plots left by the fair. Organisa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Olivencia
Manuel Olivencia Ruiz (25 July 1929 – 1 January 2018) was a Spanish lawyer with a career as a professor, economist, and diplomat. He worked at the University of Seville and organized Seville Expo '92. Early life Olivencia was born in Ronda, Province of Málaga, on 25 July 1929 and grew up in Ceuta. Olivencia's father was also a lawyer. His brother was Francisco Olivencia. Olivencia graduated cum laude from the University of Bologna in 1953. Career Olivencia decided from a young age to practice law, though he prioritized teaching. He became an associate professor of commercial law at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1960 he became a professor of commercial law at the University of Seville; one of his students was Felipe González. There, he was dean of the school of law from 1968 to 1971 and dean of the school of economics from 1971 to 1975. He was Undersecretary of Education and Science during the first Transition government, advisor to the Bank of Spain, and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbus Quincentenary
The Columbus Quincentenary (1992) was the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' 1492 arrival in America. Similar to Columbus Day, the annual celebration of Columbus' arrival, the quincentenary was viewed contentiously, as different cultures and peoples had different ways of understanding Columbus' role in history. Certain institutions sought to celebrate this anniversary in commemoration of Columbus' momentous colonial and imperial achievements. Spain's Universal Exposition of Seville (1992) was elaborately planned to highlight Columbus' work and the overall European Age of Discovery. Italy's International Exposition of Genoa (1992) was themed "Christopher Columbus, The Ship and the Sea." In 1984, the United States designated the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Commission to execute a commemoration in honor of Columbus. In total, over 20 countries, including several Latin American countries and Japan, had committees to plan quincentennial celebrations. Alternativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciudad Real Railway Station
Ciudad Real railway station (Spanish: Estación de Ciudad Real) is the main railway station of the Spanish city of Ciudad Real, Castilla–La Mancha. Located on the AVE high-speed rail line from Madrid Atocha to Seville-Santa Justa and Málaga María Zambrano, travel to Madrid can be achieved in under an hour. History The station was built in 1992 with the arrival of the AVE line, over the site of an older station which originally opened in 1880. The arrival of the high-speed line to Ciudad Real has been credited with revitalising the city due to the short travel time to Madrid. Services Along with aforementioned AVE services to Madrid, Seville and Málaga; Alvia trains operate on from Madrid on the high-speed line and continuing on the classic Iberian gauge tracks to Cádiz, stopping at Ciudad Real. Altaria services operate between Madrid Atocha and Algeciras stopping at Ciudad Real, and Media Distancia trains to Alicante, Villena and Alcázar de San Juan Alcázar de San J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seville–Santa Justa Railway Station
Seville–Santa Justa railway station is the major railway station of the Spanish city of Seville, Andalusia. It was opened in 1991La estación Santa Justa cumple 20 años con más de 120 millones usuarios ''Diario de Sevilla''. with the inauguration of the Madrid–Seville high-speed rail line, and serves around 12.7 million passengers a year. History Seville's first main railway station was called , which was situated on the banks of the river as a terminus station for trains heading north of the city. A southern terminus known as the ''Cádiz station'' ser ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid Atocha Railway Station
Madrid Atocha (), also named Madrid Puerta de Atocha–Almudena Grandes, is the oldest major railway station in Madrid. It is the largest station serving commuter trains (Cercanías Madrid, ''Cercanías''), regional trains from the south and southeast, intercity trains from Navarre, Cádiz and Huelva (Andalusia) and La Rioja (Spain), La Rioja, and the AVE high-speed rail, high speed trains from Girona, Tarragona and Barcelona (Catalonia), Huesca and Zaragoza (Aragon), Sevilla, Province of Córdoba (Spain), Córdoba, Málaga and Granada (Andalusia), Valencia, Spain, Valencia, Province of Castellón, Castellón and Alicante (Levante, Spain, Levante Region). These train services are run by Spain's national rail company, Renfe. As of 2019, the station has daily service to Marseille, France. Overview The station is in the Atocha (Madrid), Atocha neighborhood of the district of Arganzuela. The original façade faces Plaza del Emperador Carlos V, a site at which a variety of streets con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renfe
Renfe (, ), officially Renfe-Operadora, is Spain's national state-owned railway company. It was created in 2005 upon the split of the former Spanish National Railway Network (RENFE) into the Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF), which inherited the infrastructure, and Renfe-Operadora, which inherited the railway service. History The name "Renfe" (acronym of '' Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles'') is derived from that of the former Spanish National Railway Network created on 24 January 1941 with the nationalisation of Spain's railways. As per EU Directive 91/440, Renfe was divided into Renfe Operadora (operations) and ADIF (infrastructure) on 1 January 2005. At the same time, the existing Renfe logo (nicknamed the "galleta", Spanish for biscuit), first introduced in 1971, was replaced by a dark purple lower-case wordmark designed by Interbrand. Separate logos used by the other sectors were also replaced, but the old Renfe logo remains in use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High-speed Rail In Spain
High-speed railways in Spain have been in operation since 1992 when the first line was opened connecting the cities of Madrid, Córdoba, Andalusia, Córdoba and Seville. Unlike the rest of the Iberian gauge, Iberian broad gauge network, the Spanish High-speed network mainly uses standard gauge. This permits direct connections to outside Spain through the link to the French network at the Perthus Tunnel. High-speed trains run on a network of high-speed rail track owned and managed by Adif, ADIF (''Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias''), where the dominant service is AVE while other high speed services such as Avant (train), Avant, Alvia, Avlo, Euromed (train), Euromed, Ouigo España and Iryo, as well as mid-speed (InterCity#Spain, InterCity) services also operate. AVE trains are operated by Renfe, the national passenger high-speed rail operator in Spain, but other companies such as Ouigo España and Iryo compete on the Madrid–Barcelona and other routes in accordance wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid–Seville High-speed Rail Line
The Madrid–Sevilla high-speed line (NAFA or ''Nuevo Acceso Ferroviario a Andalucía'') is a Spanish railway line for high-speed traffic between Madrid and Seville. The first Spanish high-speed rail connection has been in use since 21 April 1992 at speeds up to 300 km/h (186 mph). Travel time between the two end points was reduced by over half. At Córdoba railway station, Córdoba the Madrid–Málaga high-speed rail line leaves the line from Madrid. At Seville the line is extended to Cádiz only for the Alvia service. Routing The line starts at Madrid-Atocha and runs over 31 bridges (total length ) and through 17 tunnels (total length , crossing the plains of the southern half of the Meseta Central, Inner Plateau. It climbs south of Toledo, Spain, Toledo as well as when crossing the Sierra Morena to an altitude of , and then descends to around sea level as it approaches Seville. The terminus of the line is the new railway station Seville-Santa Justa railway stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago 1992 World's Fair
The Chicago 1992 World's Fair was planned to be held in Chicago as the first World's Fair to take place in the United States since the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition in New Orleans. The Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) approved Chicago's bid to host a World's Fair in 1982, but three years later the city withdrew its offer to host the event following the evaporation of political support and concerns that the event would not be able to recoup its expenses. The fair would have been twinned with the coinciding Seville Expo '92. Background Chicago had twice before hosted major worlds fairs, the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 and Century of Progress from 1933 through 1934. The first of these predated the establishment of the Bureau International des Expositions, a sanctioning body for official worlds expositions, while the latter was formally sanctioned by it. Conception Several architects, including Harry Weese, would later claim to have been discussing the idea ever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the county seat, seat of Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents. Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a Chicago Portage, portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isla Mágica
Isla Mágica (, ''Magic Island'') is a theme park at the Isla de La Cartuja, in Seville, Andalusia in Spain. The park has six themed areas and a water park called . The theme was built after the Expo '92 Universal Exhibition on part of the grounds where it was held. Initially called , the theme park was later redesigned and it reopened as on 28 June 1997. On 28 June 2014, the water park was opened. It features a large lake and many other attractions including roller coasters and various other types of rides as well as both live and cinematic shows. The park's slogan is "Diversión sin límites" which translates as "Fun without Limits". Main rides *Jaguar - The first inverted rollercoaster in Spain, with five inversions (2x heartline roll, 1x immelman and 2x in-line twist) and a final helix, and one of the most popular roller coasters in the park. It's an SLC+ (the second in the world and the first in Europe), a special edition with a helix before the brakes, by the Dutch ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
