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Ramón Chao
Ramón Luís Chao Rego (21 July 1935 – 20 May 2018) was a Spanish journalist and writer. He won the Premio de Virtuosismo for Piano in 1955. The same year he moved to Paris, France to study music with Nadia Boulanger and Lazare Lévy. In 1960 he began his collaboration with the Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française, RTF's Iberian languages Service. He was head of this service ten years later. At the same time he was collaborating with the Spanish weekly ''Triunfo (Spain), Triunfo'', the monthly ''Le Monde Diplomatique'', and the daily newspapers ''Le Monde'' and ''La Voz de Galicia''. Ramón Chao was named ''chevalier de Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' in 1991 and named as an ''officier'' in 2004. In 2003 the Spanish government awarded him the Orden del Mérito Civil. In 1997 he won the prize Premio Galicia de la Comunicación. In 2001, the Liberpress prize in Gerona for his human coherence and his solidarity in the field of journalism: “per la seva coherència humana i soli ...
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Vilalba
Vilalba is a municipality in the province of Province of Lugo, Lugo, in the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain. It belongs to the Comarcas of Galicia, comarca of Terra Chá. It is located on the left bank of the river Ladra, one of the headstreams of the Minho (river), Miño. Pilgrim route Vilalba is located on the old Way of St. James, pilgrim route from western Europe to Santiago de Compostella, which enters from Burgos and Abadin to the east and crosses using the old Bridge of Martiñán in the parish of :es:Goiriz, Goiriz, leaving on the west side of the town towards :es:Santiago de Baamonde, Baamonde, Guitiriz and León, Spain, León. Journalistic tradition During the 20th century Vilalba had a rich journalistic tradition that began in 1902 with the ''Ideal Villalbés'', a newspaper handwritten by the poet and journalist Antonio García Hermida. This was continued, in a more professional form, by the ''El Eco de Villalba'' (1908) under Manuel Mato Vi ...
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