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| | Historic figures past and present that influenced the Pyrenees and the Costa Brava of today. | |
| |  | “Fantasy abandoned by reason produces monsters, but together with it, it is the mother of the Arts” (Francisco de Goya).Francisco de Goya y Lucientes was born in 1746 in Fuendetodos, a small village in the province of Zaragoza. His beginnings were in master Luzan’s studio. Some ... | |
| |  | In The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway (as Jake Barnes) and his friend Bill Gorton boarded the bus to the Pyrenees village of Burguete in Pamplona’s Plaza del Castillo. That’s where it picked up passengers in 1925, but now you board it at a modern bus station some blocks away from the ... | |
| |  | Easter is the best time to visit Calanda, Teruel. Enjoy the famous celebrations of its Holy Week, with the noisy excitement of its drums. After the "rompida" (the moment when all the drummers begin to play) the continuous drumbeat and the mixing of various rhythms and beats becomes a sort ... | |
| |  | Salvador Dali, the great master of surrealism holds a great appeal for visitors to the Costa Brava. Figueres, Cadaques-Portlligat and Pubol form the three corners of Salvador Dali's Triangle ... | |
| |  | Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906, was born on May 1, 1852, at Petilla in Aragon, Spain. As a boy he was apprenticed first to a barber and then to a cobbler ... | |
| |  | Born in November 1947, in Zaragoza, Spanish comics artist who works mainly in British comics and now he lives in Andorra, he has also worked under de name of L. John Silver. He is best known as the co-creator of Judge Dredd. ... | |
| |  | Segundo de Chomon, Spanish filmmaker and cinematographer. He was born in Teruel (Aragon) in 1871 and died in Paris in 1929. Segundo de Chomon was de creator of outstanding special effects and animations ... | |
| |  | Angel Orensanz, Painter, Sculptor and Performance Artist. Born in Larues, Aragon in 1944, Angel Orensanz has produced a richly nuanced, highly personal art ranging from large and complex abstract sculptures ... | |
| |  | Angel Sanz Briz (Zaragoza, Aragon, September 28, 1910 - June 11, 1980) was a Spanish diplomat during World War II who helped saved many Hungarian Jews from Nazi persecution ... | |
| |  | Luis Royo was born in 1954 in Olalla, a small village in the province of Teruel, Spanish artist, illustrator, known for his sensual paintings of women and mechanical forms of life, he has also started doing sculptures ... | |
| |  | Catherine of Aragon or Catalina de Aragon (1485 – 1536) was queen consort of England as Henry VIII of England's first wife. Henry annulled his twenty-four year marriage to her after only one of their six children, Mary I ... | |
| |  | He was born in Zaragoza, architect, painter, designer and artist and one of the most outstanding figures of Modernism in Zaragoza and Aragon. He did his primary and secondary studies in a municipal school ... | |
| |  | He did his first studies in the Polytechnic Nuestra Señora del Pilar in Zaragoza and his degree in architecture in Madrid, he graduated the 16th of November in 1911. His great humanity led him to work for no ... | |
| |  | The first one in a family of architects which is going to reach very soon it’s 150 years and his fifth generation is on the way. Vitalist, inquirer, progressive, he travelled when hardly anyone was able to. | |
| |  | He was the president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, founder of the newspaper Heraldo de Aragon and senator-for-life. He also helped organize the Hispano-French Exposition of 1908 ... | |
| |  | Peter II of Aragon (1174 - September 12, 1213), surnamed the Catholic, was the king of Aragon (as Pedro II) and count of Barcelona (as Pere I) from 1196 to 1213 and ... | |
| |  | The short, but brilliant career of the Spanish tenor Miguel Fleta lasted for only sixteen years, from his debut in Trieste 1919 until his retirement in 1935. He died three years later at the age of 41 only ... | |
| |  | Javier Sierra Albert (Born August 11th., 1971 in Teruel, Aragon, Spain) is a Journalist, Writer and Researcher who studied Journalism at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. At the moment he is editor consultant of the ... | |
| |  | Marti arrived to Zaragoza in 1873.He studied Law and Philosophy in the University of Zaragoza, graduating on he 30th of June, for his Law Degree and secondly on the 24th of October 1874, for Philosphy. Marti lived ... | |
| |  | Zaha Hadid is a notable Iraqi-British deconstructivist architect. Zaha Hadid won the competition to design the Pavilion Bridge over the Ebro river for the 2008 International Exposition in Zaragoza ... | |
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