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Fiestas del Pilar

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The Fiestas del Pilar are an annual festival celebrated in the city of Zaragoza, Aragon, in honour of the patron saint of the city, the Virgen del Pilar (Our Lady of the Pillar). [1]

50 relations: Amaral, Andoni Cedrún, Antonio Saura, Aragon, Art, Álvaro Arbeloa, Bigas Luna, Castellón de la Plana, Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, Columbus Day, Concert, Cross of Lorraine, Ebro, Enrique Bunbury, Fair, Fernando Escartín, Festival, Fiesta Nacional de España, Fireworks, Fruit, Gigantes y cabezudos, Imperio Argentina, Javier Moracho, Javier Tomeo, José Antonio Labordeta, José Luis Borau, Juan Antonio San Epifanio, Luisa Gavasa, Marian apparition, Mary, mother of Jesus, Mingote, October 12, Oktoberfest, Our Lady of the Pillar, Parade, Patron saint, Pavilion, Pilar Lorengar, Puppetry, Religiosity, Roller coaster, Sagrada Família, Settlement of the Americas, Soledad Puértolas, Spanish transition to democracy, Teresa Perales, The Guardian, Víctor Fernández, Violadores del Verso, Zaragoza.

Amaral

Amaral may refer to.

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Andoni Cedrún

Andoni Cedrún Ibarra (born 5 June 1960) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Antonio Saura

Antonio Saura (September 22, 1930 – July 22, 1998) was a Spanish artist and writer, one of the major post-war painters to emerge in Spain in the fifties whose work has marked several generations of artists and whose critical voice is often remembered.

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Aragon

Aragon (or, Spanish and Aragón, Aragó or) is an autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon.

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Art

Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative, conceptual idea, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.

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Álvaro Arbeloa

Álvaro Arbeloa Coca (born 17 January 1983) is a retired Spanish professional footballer.

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Bigas Luna

Josep Joan Bigas i Luna (Barcelona, 19th March, 1946 - la Riera de Gaià, Catalonia, 5th April, 2013), known artistically as Bigas Luna, was a Spanish film director, designer and artist.

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Castellón de la Plana

Castellón de la Plana, Castelló de la Plana, or simply Castellón / Castelló, is the capital city of the province of Castellón, in the Valencian Community, Spain, in the east of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Costa del Azahar by the Mediterranean Sea.

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Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar

The Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar (Nuestra Señora del Pilar) is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Zaragoza, Aragon (Spain).

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Columbus Day

Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492.

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Concert

A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience.

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Cross of Lorraine

The Cross of Lorraine (Croix de Lorraine) is a heraldic two-barred cross, consisting of a vertical line crossed by two shorter horizontal bars.

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Ebro

The Ebro in English (also in Spanish, Aragonese and Basque: 'Ebre') is one of the most important rivers on the Iberian Peninsula.

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Enrique Bunbury

Enrique Ortiz de Landázuri Izarduy (a.k.a. Enrique Bunbury), born August 11, 1967, is a Spanish singer-songwriter.

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Fair

A fair (archaic: faire or fayre), also known as funfair, is a gathering of people for a variety of entertainment or commercial activities.

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Fernando Escartín

Fernando Escartín Coti (born April 24, 1968) is a Spanish former road racing cyclist.

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Festival

A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or cultures.

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Fiesta Nacional de España

The Fiesta Nacional de España (Festa Nacional d'Espanya in Catalan/Valencian/Balearic; Festa Nacional de España in Galician; Espainiako Jai Nazionala in Basque) is the national day of Spain.

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Fireworks

Fireworks are a class of low explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

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Gigantes y cabezudos

Many Spanish and Portuguese festivals include costumed figures known as gigantes y cabezudos, roughly, “Giants and Big-Heads”,in portuguese gigantones e cabeçudos, in Valencian, "Gegants i cabuts", in Catalan, gegants i capgrossos, or in Basque, "erraldoi eta buruhandiak".

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Imperio Argentina

María Magdalena Nile del Río (26 December 1910 – 22 August 2003) was an Argentine professional singer and movie actress, better known as Imperio Argentina; she became a citizen of Spain in 1999.

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Javier Moracho

Javier Moracho Torrente (born August 18, 1957 in Monzón, Huesca) is a retired hurdler from Spain.

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Javier Tomeo

Javier Tomeo (September 9, 1932 – June 22, 2013) was a Spanish (Aragonese) essayist, dramatist, and novelist.

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José Antonio Labordeta

José Antonio Labordeta Subías (Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain; 10 March 1935 – Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain; 19 September 2010), described by The Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa 2000 (Great Aragonese Encyclopedia) as “The most important Aragonese singer-songwriter”, began singing in an attempt to give more relevance to his poetry.

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José Luis Borau

José Luis Borau Moradell (8 August 1929 – 23 November 2012) was a Spanish producer, screenwriter, writer, and film director.

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Juan Antonio San Epifanio

Juan Antonio San Epifanio Ruiz (born 12 June 1959), most commonly known as either J.A. San Epifanio ("Epi"), or simply "Epi", is a retired Spanish professional basketball player.

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Luisa Gavasa

Luisa Gavasa Moragón (born 8 April 1951) is a Spanish actress.

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Marian apparition

A Marian apparition is a reported supernatural appearance by the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran.

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Mingote

Don Antonio Mingote Barrachina, 1st Marquis of Daroca (17 January 19193 April 2012), also simply known as Mingote, was a Spanish cartoonist, writer, and journalist.

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October 12

No description.

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Oktoberfest

Oktoberfest is the world's largest Volksfest (beer festival and travelling funfair).

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Our Lady of the Pillar

Our Lady of the Pillar (Nuestra Señora del Pilar) is the name given to the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with the claim of Marian apparition to Apostle James the Greater as he was praying by the banks of the Ebro at Caesaraugusta (Zaragoza), Hispania, in AD 40.

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Parade

A parade (also called march or marchpast) is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, floats or sometimes large balloons.

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Patron saint

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, or particular branches of Islam, is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family or person.

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Pavilion

In architecture, a pavilion (from French pavillon, from Latin papilio) has several meanings.

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Pilar Lorengar

Lorenza Pilar García Seta (January 16, 1928June 2, 1996) was a Spanish (Aragonese) soprano who used the professional name Pilar Lorengar.

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Puppetry

Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer.

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Religiosity

Religiosity is difficult to define, but different scholars have seen this concept as broadly about religious orientations and involvement.

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Roller coaster

A roller coaster is a type of amusement ride that employs a form of elevated railroad track designed with tight turns, steep slopes, and sometimes inversions.

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Sagrada Família

The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família (Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia; Expiatory Church of the Holy Family) is a large unfinished Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926).

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Settlement of the Americas

Paleolithic hunter-gatherers first entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the Last Glacial Maximum.

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Soledad Puértolas

Soledad Puértolas Villanueva (born Saragossa, 3 February 1947) is a Spanish writer, and on 28 January 2010 was named an inmortal or member of the Real Academia Española.

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Spanish transition to democracy

The Spanish transition to democracy (Transición española a la democracia), known in Spain as the Transition (La Transición), or the Spanish transition (Transición española) is a period of modern Spanish history, that started on 20 November 1975, the date of death of Francisco Franco, who had established a military dictatorship after the victory of the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.

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Teresa Perales

Teresa Perales Fernández (born 29 December 1975) is an S5, SB4, SM5 classified Spanish swimmer, politician and motivational speaker who has won a total of 26 Paralympic medals at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, 2004 Summer Paralympics, 2008 Summer Paralympics, 2012 Summer Paralympics and 2016 Summer Paralympics, with six of those medals earned at the 2012 London Games.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Víctor Fernández

Víctor Fernández Braulio (born 28 November 1960) is a Spanish football coach.

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Violadores del Verso

Violadores del Verso (Lyrical Molesters or Verse Rapists), also known as Doble V, are a rap music crew from Zaragoza, Spain.

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Zaragoza

Zaragoza, also called Saragossa in English, is the capital city of the Zaragoza province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiestas_del_Pilar

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