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El Puerto de Santa María

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El Puerto de Santa María ("The Port of Saint Mary"), locally known as El Puerto, is a municipality located on the banks of the Guadalete River in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia. [1]

83 relations: Abraham Paz, Alcalde, Alfonso X of Castile, Amontillado, Ancient Rome, Andalusia, Atlantic Ocean, Autonomous communities of Spain, Ayuntamiento, Bay of Cádiz, Bay of Cádiz (comarca), Brighton, Bullfighter, Bullfighting, Calp, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Castle of San Marcos (El Puerto de Santa María), Cádiz, Christopher Columbus, Comarca, Coral Gables, Florida, Country, Duke of Medinaceli, Egyptian mongoose, Fino, Francisco Franco, Francisco Javier de Burgos y Sarragoiti, Galley, Generation of '27, Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Guadalete, History of Sherry, Holy Week, Homer, Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain), Javier Ruibal, Jerez de la Frontera, Joaquín (footballer), José Manuel Pinto, Joseph Bonaparte, Joseph Cordero, Juan Antonio de Vizarrón y Eguiarreta, Juan de la Cosa, Juan Modesto, La Güera, List of Bienes de Interés Cultural in the Province of Cádiz, List of mayors of El Puerto de Santa María, Mappa mundi, Mary, mother of Jesus, Menestheus, ..., Monasterio de la Victoria, Province of Cadiz, Moors, Motorcycle, Municipality, Museo Arqueológico Municipal de El Puerto de Santa María, Odyssey, Oloroso, Oracle, Pedro Muñoz Seca, Pedro Pérez Fernández, Peninsular War, Phoenicia, Plaza de toros de El Puerto, Priory Church, El Puerto de Santa María, Province, Province of Cádiz, Puerto Real, Rafael Alberti, Romería de El Rocío, Rota, Andalusia, Seville, Sherry, Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park, Sister city, Solera, Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, Texcoco, State of Mexico, Torcuato Benjumeda, Tourism, Trojan War, Valentín Galarza Morante, Western Sahara, Wine. Expand index (33 more) »

Abraham Paz

Abraham Paz Cruz (born 29 June 1979) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Israeli club Bnei Sakhnin F.C. as a central defender.

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Alcalde

Alcalde, or Alcalde ordinario, is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions.

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Alfonso X of Castile

Alfonso X (also occasionally Alphonso, Alphonse, or Alfons, 23 November 1221 – 4 April 1284), called the Wise (el Sabio), was the King of Castile, León and Galicia from 30 May 1252 until his death in 1284.

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Amontillado

Amontillado is a variety of sherry wine characterized by being darker than fino but lighter than oloroso.

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Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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Andalusia

Andalusia (Andalucía) is an autonomous community in southern Spain.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Autonomous communities of Spain

In Spain, an autonomous community (comunidad autónoma, autonomia erkidegoa, comunitat autònoma, comunidade autónoma, comunautat autonòma) is a first-level political and administrative division, created in accordance with the Spanish constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing limited autonomy of the nationalities and regions that make up Spain.

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Ayuntamiento

AyuntamientoIn other languages of Spain.

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Bay of Cádiz

The Bay of Cádiz is a body of water in the province of Cádiz, Spain, adjacent to the southwestern coast of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Bay of Cádiz (comarca)

The Bay of Cádiz (Comarca de la Bahía de Cádiz) is a comarca (county, but with no administrative role) in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia, southern Spain.

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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England which is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, 47 miles (75 km) south of London.

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Bullfighter

A bullfighter is a performer in the sport of bullfighting.

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Bullfighting

Bullfighting is a physical contest that involves humans and animals attempting to publicly subdue, immobilise, or kill a bull, usually according to a set of rules, guidelines, or cultural expectations.

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Calp

Calp (Calpe) is a coastal town located in the ''comarca'' of Marina Alta, in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea.

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Cantigas de Santa Maria

The Cantigas de Santa Maria ("Canticles of Holy Mary"),, are 420 poems with musical notation, written in the medieval Galician-Portuguese language during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile ''El Sabio'' (1221–1284) and often attributed to him.

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Castle of San Marcos (El Puerto de Santa María)

Castle of San Marcos (also Castillo de Alfonso X El Sabio) is a medieval castle located in El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz, Spain.

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Cádiz

Cádiz (see other pronunciations below) is a city and port in southwestern Spain.

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Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus (before 31 October 145120 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer.

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Comarca

A comarca (or, pl. comarcas; or, pl. comarques) is a traditional region or local administrative division found in Portugal, Spain and some of their former colonies: Panama, Nicaragua, and Brazil.

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Coral Gables, Florida

Coral Gables, officially the City of Coral Gables, is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, located southwest of Downtown Miami.

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Country

A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography.

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Duke of Medinaceli

Duke of Medinaceli is a title of Spanish nobility.

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Egyptian mongoose

The Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon), also known as the ichneumon, is a species of mongoose.

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Fino

Fino ("refined" in Spanish) is the driest and palest of the traditional varieties of Sherry and Montilla-Moriles fortified wine.

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Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator from 1939, after the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War, until his death in 1975.

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Francisco Javier de Burgos y Sarragoiti

Francisco Javier de Burgos y Sarragoiti (born in El Puerto de Santa María 1842 – dead in Madrid 1902) was a Spanish journalist and author of comic theatre.

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Galley

A galley is a type of ship that is propelled mainly by rowing.

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Generation of '27

The Generation of '27 (Generación del 27) was an influential group of poets that arose in Spanish literary circles between 1923 and 1927, essentially out of a shared desire to experience and work with avant-garde forms of art and poetry.

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Grand Prix motorcycle racing

Grand Prix motorcycle racing refers to the premier class of motorcycle racing events held on road circuits sanctioned by FIM.

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Guadalete

The Guadalete River is located almost entirely in the Spanish province of Cádiz, rising in the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park at an elevation of about, and running for into the Bay of Cádiz at El Puerto de Santa Maria, south of the city of Cádiz.

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History of Sherry

The history of Sherry is closely linked with that of Spanish wine production, particularly the political fortunes of the Cádiz region, where it originated with the early Phoenician settlement of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Holy Week

Holy Week (Latin: Hebdomas Sancta or Hebdomas Maior, "Greater Week"; Greek: Ἁγία καὶ Μεγάλη Ἑβδομάς, Hagia kai Megale Hebdomas, "Holy and Great Week") in Christianity is the week just before Easter.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.

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Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain)

The National Institute of Statistics (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, INE) is the official organisation in Spain that collects statistics about demography, economy, and Spanish society.

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Javier Ruibal

Javier Ruibal (full name Francisco Javier Ruibal de Flores Calero) (born May 15, 1955) is a Spanish musician and songwriter.

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Jerez de la Frontera

Jerez de la Frontera, or simply Jerez, is a Spanish city and municipality in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, in southwestern Spain, located midway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Cádiz Mountains.

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Joaquín (footballer)

Joaquín Sánchez Rodríguez (born 21 July 1981), known simply as Joaquín, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Real Betis as a right winger.

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José Manuel Pinto

José Manuel Pinto Colorado (born 8 November 1975) is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Joseph Bonaparte

Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte, born Giuseppe Buonaparte (7 January 1768 – 28 July 1844) was a French diplomat and nobleman, the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him King of Naples and Sicily (1806–1808, as Giuseppe I), and later King of Spain (1808–1813, as José I).

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Joseph Cordero

Joseph Cordero (born in El Puerto de Santa María in 1718 and died in 1797) was a clockmaker who built the clock tower of the Giralda in Seville.

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Juan Antonio de Vizarrón y Eguiarreta

Juan Antonio de Vizarrón y Eguiarreta (September 2, 1682, El Puerto de Santa María, Spain – January 25, 1747, Mexico City, Spain) was archbishop of Mexico from March 21, 1731 to January 25, 1747 and Spanish viceroy of New Spain from March 17, 1734 to August 17, 1740.

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Juan de la Cosa

Juan de la Cosa (c. 1450 – 28 February 1510) was a Spanish navigator and cartographer, known for designing the earliest European world map that incorporated the territories of the Americas that were discovered in the 15th century.

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Juan Modesto

Juan Guilloto León, usually referred to as Modesto or Juan Modesto (24 September 1906 – 16 April 1969), was a Republican army officer during the Spanish Civil War.

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La Güera

La Güera (also known as La Agüera, Lagouira, or El Gouera) (الكويرة) is a ghost town on the Atlantic coast at the southern tip of Western Sahara, on the western side of the Ras Nouadhibou peninsula, west of Nouadhibou.

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List of Bienes de Interés Cultural in the Province of Cádiz

This is a list of Bienes de Interés Cultural landmarks in the Province of Cádiz, Spain.

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List of mayors of El Puerto de Santa María

This is a list of mayors (alcaldes) of El Puerto de Santa María.

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Mappa mundi

A mappa mundi (Latin; plural.

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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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Menestheus

Menestheus (Μενεσθεύς), the son of Peteus, son of Orneus, son of Erechtheus, and either Polyxene or Mnesimache, was a legendary King of Athens during the Trojan War.

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Monasterio de la Victoria, Province of Cadiz

Monasterio de la Victoria is a former monastery located in El Puerto de Santa María, province of Cádiz, southern Spain.

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Moors

The term "Moors" refers primarily to the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and Malta during the Middle Ages.

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Motorcycle

A motorcycle, often called a bike, motorbike, or cycle, is a two-> or three-wheeled motor vehicle.

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Municipality

A municipality is usually a single urban or administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and state laws to which it is subordinate.

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Museo Arqueológico Municipal de El Puerto de Santa María

The Museo Arqueológico Municipal de El Puerto de Santa María is a museum located in El Puerto de Santa María, in the province of Cádiz, southern Spain.

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Odyssey

The Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια Odýsseia, in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

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Oloroso

Oloroso ("scented" in Spanish) is a variety of fortified wine (sherry) made in Jerez and Montilla-Moriles and produced by oxidative aging.

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Oracle

In classical antiquity, an oracle was a person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the god.

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Pedro Muñoz Seca

Pedro Muñoz Seca (born February 20, 1879 in El Puerto de Santa María, Spain; died November 28, 1936 in Paracuellos de Jarama, Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish comic playwright.

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Pedro Pérez Fernández

Pedro Pérez Fernández (1885 – 1956) was a Spanish dramatist.

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Peninsular War

The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was a military conflict between Napoleon's empire (as well as the allied powers of the Spanish Empire), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Portugal, for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Phoenicia

Phoenicia (or; from the Φοινίκη, meaning "purple country") was a thalassocratic ancient Semitic civilization that originated in the Eastern Mediterranean and in the west of the Fertile Crescent.

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Plaza de toros de El Puerto

The Real Plaza de Toros de El Puerto de Santa María is a bullring in El Puerto de Santa María, Spain.

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Priory Church, El Puerto de Santa María

The Priory Church (Spanish: Iglesia Mayor Prioral) is a religious building in El Puerto de Santa María, province of Cádiz, Spain.

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Province

A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state.

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Province of Cádiz

Cádiz is a province of southern Spain, in the southwestern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia.

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Puerto Real

Puerto Real is a seaport in Andalusia, in the province of Cádiz.

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Rafael Alberti

Rafael Alberti Merello (16 December 1902 – 28 October 1999) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27.

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Romería de El Rocío

The Romería de El Rocío is a procession/pilgrimage on the second day of the Pentecost to the Hermitage of El Rocío in the countryside of Almonte, Province of Huelva, Andalucia, Spain, in honor of the Virgin of El Rocío.

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Rota, Andalusia

The town of Rota is a Spanish municipality located in the Province of Cádiz, Andalusia.

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Seville

Seville (Sevilla) is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville, Spain.

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Sherry

Sherry (Jerez or) is a fortified wine made from white grapes that are grown near the city of Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia, Spain.

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Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park

The Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park (Parque natural de la Sierra de Grazalema) is a natural park in the northeastern part of the province of Cádiz in southern Spain.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Solera

Solera is a process for aging liquids such as wine, beer, vinegar, and brandy, by fractional blending in such a way that the finished product is a mixture of ages, with the average age gradually increasing as the process continues over many years.

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Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español; PSOE) is a social-democraticThe PSOE is described as a social-democratic party by numerous sources.

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Texcoco, State of Mexico

Texcoco is a city and municipality located in the State of Mexico, 25 km northeast of Mexico City.

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Torcuato Benjumeda

Torcuato José Benjumeda y Laguada (1757, El Puerto de Santa María – 1836, Cádiz) was a Spanish architect.

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Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.

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Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta.

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Valentín Galarza Morante

Colonel Valentín Galarza Morante (1882 in El Puerto de Santa María – 1951 in Madrid) was a Spanish officer and right wing politician.

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Western Sahara

Western Sahara (الصحراء الغربية, Taneẓroft Tutrimt, Spanish and French: Sahara Occidental) is a disputed territory in the Maghreb region of North Africa, partially controlled by the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and partially Moroccan-occupied, bordered by Morocco proper to the north, Algeria to the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.

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Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage made from grapes fermented without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, water, or other nutrients.

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References

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

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