Le Roi du Monde
Plaatsen in Europa.
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Santo Domingo de Silos has a Romanesque cloister at the centre of its monastic life. A medieval room houses museum objects preserved through nineteenth-century confiscation. Its library was created and maintained by the monks and has a history exceeding a thousand years.
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Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park lies in the Pyrenees among mountain peaks and valleys. Its landscape includes sharp peaks, ridges, forests and meadows. Water is a defining element, with lakes together with rivers, ravines and wetlands.
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Excavations in Besalú's historic centre have revealed Iberian remains dating to 350–250 BC. The municipality's historical account records a market in 1027. By the fourteenth century, Besalú was the principal commercial centre of the Garrotxa, drawing people from the surrounding area.
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Cabañeros National Park lies in the Montes de Toledo in Spain. The national park service describes a landscape of open rañas and wooded slopes. Los Navalucillos is one access area. The photograph shows the Arroyo del Chorro valley from the Las Becerras viewpoint.
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Deià is a municipality in a valley on Mallorca. Its history includes terraced cultivation and an irrigation and drainage system developed during Muslim rule. The municipality separated from Valldemossa in 1583 after a lengthy dispute over its administration.
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Doñana National Park includes beaches, dunes and marshes. Its marshes provide passage, breeding and wintering habitat for European and African birds. The Spanish environment ministry identifies the Iberian imperial eagle and Iberian lynx among the endangered species living in the park.
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Getariako Txakolina was recognised as a denomination of origin in 1989. In 2007 its territory expanded to the whole historical territory of Gipuzkoa. Its regulatory council is based in Getaria, and the source describes vineyard renewal preceding the denomination’s recognition.
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The city of Málaga records La Concepción as a nineteenth-century garden created by Amalia Heredia Livermore and Jorge Loring. The municipality acquired the estate in 1990 and opened it to the public in 1994. The site includes a historic garden and later botanical collections.
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Mojácar’s village stands on the last spur of the Sierra de Cabrera and is characterised by white houses and narrow streets. Its surrounding landscape includes ravines, coastal areas and the wetlands of the Aguas river. Local traditions include the Moros y Cristianos festival and the Night of Candles.
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Queen Elisenda de Montcada founded Pedralbes Monastery in 1327 with the support of her husband, King James II. The complex was built on three levels using the sloping terrain: the dormitory above, the church at the middle level and vegetable gardens below.
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Pals’ historic ensemble comprises a castle, village and walls. Its castle was first documented in 889. Following damage during the Catalan civil war, the king permitted its stones to be reused for Saint Peter’s church and the walls; the circular tower survived. Pals became an independent municipality in 1501.
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Picos de Europa National Park extends across Asturias, Cantabria and Castile and León. Its management describes conservation work concerning capercaillie, bearded vultures and inland wetlands. Its website also describes the research functions of national parks.
Cape Trafalgar · Andalusia — Spain
Waters off Cape Trafalgar (Cádiz, Spain), where Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets on 21 October 1805.
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Valderrobres received its settlement charter in 1183. In 1307, a dispute over the lordship ended with its definitive grant as a fief to the archbishop of Zaragoza. The municipal history describes growth in crafts, agriculture and livestock farming during the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.
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Zahara’s municipal history identifies a written reference to the village and fortress in 1282. It records a Christian capture in 1407 and a Nasrid recovery in 1481. The same source treats the settlement’s earlier identification and the origin of its name as uncertain.