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Ondarroa
Ondarroa is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Autonomous Community, northern Spain. Main sights *Church of St. Mary, in late Gothic style (late 15th century) *Likona Tower, a typical Basque tower-house. *Itsas Aurre Bridge, designed by Santiago Calatrava File:Ondarroa, torre Likona 2.JPG, Likona Tower File:Ondarro 1.jpg, Church of St. Mary File:Ondarroa - Puente Viejo (Zubi Zaharrra) 2bis.jpg, Old Bridge File:Itsas aurre zubia.JPG, Itsas Aurre Bridge People * Pedro Maria Unanue (1814-1846) * Txomin Agirre (1864-1920) * Agustin Zubikarai (1914-2004) * Karmele Urresti Iturrioz (1916-2010) * Dina Bilbao (1960-1997) - athlete * Ana Urkiza (b. 1969) - writer * Kirmen Uribe (b. 1970) - writer * Kepa Arrizabalaga (b. 1994) - goalkeeper for AFC Bournemouth on loan from Chelsea football club and Spain * Iñigo Martínez - footballer for FC Barcelona Twin towns * Santa Flavia, Italy * Borj, Western Sahara Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iñigo Martínez
Iñigo Martínez Berridi (; ; born 17 May 1991) is a Spanish professional Association football, footballer who plays as a centre-back for La Liga club FC Barcelona, Barcelona. He spent most of his professional career with Real Sociedad, playing 238 matches (17 goals scored) in all competitions after making his debut at the age of 20. In January 2018, he signed with Athletic Bilbao, with whom he won the 2020–21 Supercopa de España as well as reaching two Copa del Rey finals. Martínez won his first Cap (sport), cap for Spain national football team, Spain in 2013. Club career Real Sociedad Born in Ondarroa, Biscay, Martínez joined Real Sociedad's youth ranks from local CD Aurrerá Ondarroa, Aurrerá Ondarroa. He made his senior debut in the 2009–10 Tercera División, 2009–10 season, helping Real Sociedad B, the reserves to promote from Tercera División after one year out by contributing 23 games and one goal; he started out as a left-back. On 27 August 2011, Martínez m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lea-Artibai
Lea-Artibai is an ''eskualdea/comarca'' of the province of Biscay (Bizkaia), in the Basque Country, Spain. Lea-Artibai is the heir of the historical '' merindad'' of Markina, which was one of the ''merindades'' of Biscay. Currently, Lea-Artibai is one of the seven ''comarcas'' that compose the province. Its capital city is Markina-Xemein. Geography Lea-Artibai is located at the northeast extreme of the province. It limits with the ''comarcas'' of Busturialdea at west and Durangaldea at south, while the province of Gipuzkoa is at the east. The Bay of Biscay sits on the north. It occupies the drainage basin of the rivers Lea and Artibai. Municipalities Note: + created from part of Markina-Xemein in 2005. Transport Lea-Artibai is the only ''comarca'' of Biscay that does not have a single kilometer of highway or railway. Its communications are deficient and depend on roads, like the BI-633 that connects Ondarroa with Durango or the BI-2405 which connects Ondarroa with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kepa Arrizabalaga
Kepa Arrizabalaga Revuelta (born 3 October 1994), often referred to simply as Kepa, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for club Chelsea. After progressing through Athletic Bilbao's youth academy, Arrizabalaga began his senior club career with Basconia in 2011. Rejoining Bilbao in 2013, he played for Ponferradina and Real Valladolid on consecutive loans between 2015 and 2016, after which, he became a first-team regular at Bilbao. In 2018, he moved to Chelsea in a transfer worth €80 million (£72 million), a record fee for a goalkeeper. There, he won the UEFA Europa League, the UEFA Champions League, and the UEFA Super Cup. After inconsistent performances, Kepa joined Real Madrid on loan in 2023, where he won La Liga and the Champions League. Arrizabalaga won the 2012 European Under-19 Championship with Spain's under-19 team. He made his senior debut in 2017, and was part of the national squad for the 2018 World Cup, although he did not make ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirmen Uribe
Kirmen Uribe (pronounced ; born October 5, 1970) is a Basque language writer. He won the National Prize for Literature in Spain in 2009 for his first novel ''Bilbao-New York-Bilbao,'' which has been translated into over 15 languages. His poetry collection ''Meanwhile Take My Hand'' (Graywolf, 2007), translated into English by Elizabeth Macklin, was a finalist for the 2008 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. His works have been published in ''The New Yorker, Open City'' and '' Little Star''. Early life Kirmen Uribe was born in Ondarroa, a fishing town about one hour from Bilbao. Uribe's father (who died in 1999) was a trawlerman and his mother was a homemaker. He studied Basque Philology at the University of the Basque Country–Gasteiz, and did his graduate studies in Comparative Literature in Trento, Italy. He won his first literary prize in 1995 while he was in jail for being a conscientious objector and refusing to go to compulsory military service. Career ''Bilbao-New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Flavia
Santa Flavia (known as Solunto until 1880) is a town in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. Overview The town is situated between the Gulf of Palermo and the town and hot springs known as Termini Imerese, on the Tyrrhenian Sea, east of Palermo. Inside the town are the remains of the ancient city of Soluntum. The main agricultural product of Santa Flavia is the grapefruit. The town is known for its variety of fresh fish. The town caters to tourism and has numerous seaside resorts. Archeology There is an archaeological area of the Phoenician and then the Hellenistic city of Solunto. In addition to the ruins of the ancient site, a small museum, the Antiquarium, located at the entrance to the excavations, can be visited; various types of materials are on display: ceramics, fragments of painted plaster, steles, statuettes, votive reliefs, capitals and coins from Solunto and other origins. Monument The town is famous for being one of the favorite places of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava Valls (born 28 July 1951) is a Spaniards, Spanish-Swiss people, Swiss architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculptural forms often resemble living organisms. His best-known works include the Athens Olympic Sports Complex, Olympic Sports Complex of Athens, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Turning Torso tower in Malmö, Sweden, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York City, the Auditorio de Tenerife in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, Texas, and his largest project, the City of Arts and Sciences and Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Opera House in his birthplace, Valencia. His architectural firm has offices in New York City, Doha, and Zurich. Early life Calatrava was born on 28 July 1951, in Benimàmet, an old municipality now part of Valencia, Spain. His Calatrava surname was an old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basque Country (autonomous Community)
The Basque Country or Basque Autonomous Community (), also officially called Euskadi (), is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in northern Spain. It includes the Basque provinces of Álava, Araba, Biscay, Bizkaia, and Gipuzkoa. It surrounds two enclaves called Treviño enclave, Treviño (Province of Burgos, Burgos) and Valle de Villaverde (Cantabria). The Basque Country was granted the status of ''Nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'', attributed by the Spanish Constitution of 1978. The autonomous community is based on the Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country, a foundational legal document providing the framework for the development of the Basque people on Southern Basque Country. Parallelly, Navarre, which narrowly rejected a joint statute of autonomy in 1932, was granted a separate chartered statute in 1982. Currently there is no official capital in the autonomous community, but the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the province of Álava, is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Spain
The municipality (, , , , , )In other languages of Spain: *Catalan language, Catalan/Valencian (), grammatical number, sing. . *Galician language, Galician () or (), grammatical number, sing. /. *Basque language, Basque (), grammatical number, sing. . *Asturian language, Asturian (), grammatical number, sing. . is one of the two fundamental territorial divisions in Spain, the other being the Provinces of Spain, provinces. Organisation Although provinces of Spain, provinces are groupings of municipality, municipalities, there is no implied hierarchy or primacy of one over the other. Instead the two entities are defined according to the authority or jurisdiction of each (). Some autonomous communities also group municipalities into entities known as ''comarcas of Spain, comarcas'' (districts) or ''mancomunidades'' (commonwealths). The governing body in most municipalities is called ''Ayuntamiento (Spain), ayuntamiento'' (municipal council or municipal corporation, corpora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina Bilbao
DINA may refer to: * Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), the Chilean secret police under the Pinochet regime * DINA S.A., a Mexican truck and bus manufacturer See also * Dina (other) * * DINO Dino may refer to: Prefix * dino-, a common prefix in taxonomy, meaning "terrible", "formidable" **Dinosaur ** Dinosaurus People * Dino (given name), a masculine given name and a nickname * Dino (surname), a surname found in Albania and Turkey ... * DIN (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Urkiza
Ana or ANA may refer to: People * Ana (given name), a list of people with the name * Ana people or Atakpame people, an ethnic group of West Africa * ana (gamer), Anathan Pham, an Australian professional ''Dota 2'' player known as ana Places * Ana, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, village in Iran * Ana or Anah, town in Iraq * Ana, populated place in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea * Ana or Anié, town in Togo * Ana, community in Niue Arts and entertainment * ''Ana'' (1982 film), a Portuguese film * ''Ana'' (2020 film), an American film * ''The Hole'' (1957 film) or ''Ana'', a 1957 Japanese film * ''Ana'' (1984 TV series), a Pakistani drama on PTV * ''Ana'' (2004 TV series), a Pakistani drama on Geo TV * ''Ana'' (2020 TV series), a Mexican comedy show * ''ana'' (2021 TV series), Syrian TV series starring Taim Hasan * "Ana", a song by the Pixies from '' Bossanova'' * ''Ana'' (Ralph Towner album), 1996 * Ana (Ana album), 1987 * Ana (''Overwatch''), a player character in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AFC Bournemouth
AFC Bournemouth ( ) is a professional association football club based in Kings Park, Boscombe, a suburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England. The club compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English football. Formed in 1899 as Boscombe, the club adopted their current name in 1971. Nicknamed "The Cherries", and commonly referred to as Bournemouth, they have played their home games at Dean Court since 1910. The club competed in regional football leagues before going up from the Hampshire League to the Southern Football League, Southern League in 1920. Now known as Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, they were elected into the English Football League, Football League in 1923. They remained in the Football League Third Division South, Third Division South for 35 years, winning the Football League Third Division South Cup, Third Division South Cup in 1946. Placed in the newly reorganised Football League Third Division, Third Division in 1958, they su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goalkeeper (association Football)
The goalkeeper (sometimes written as goal-keeper, abbreviated as GK, keeper, keeps, or goalie) is a association football positions, position in association football. It is the most specialised position in the sport. The goalkeeper's main role is to stop the opposing football team, team from Scoring in association football, scoring a 'Football pitch#Goals, goal' (i.e. putting the football (ball), ball over the Goal_(sports)#Association_football, goal Goal line (association football), line). This is accomplished by having the goalkeeper move into the trajectory of the ball to either catch it or direct it further from the vicinity of the goal line. Within the penalty area, goalkeepers are allowed to use their hands, giving them (outside throw-ins) the sole rights on the field to handle the ball. The goalkeeper is indicated by wearing a different coloured kit (association football), kit from their teammates and opposition. The back-pass rule is a rule that disallows handling passes b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
