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The French Way is the most well-known and used of the Spanish routes. Measuring 738 km, from the northeastern border with France to Santiago de Compostela.It is the continuation of four routes in France (hence the name) that merge into two after crossing the Pyrenees into Spain at Roncesvalles (Valcarlos Pass) and Canfranc (Somport Pass) and then converge at Puente la Reina south of Pamplona.
It begins in the west on the Bay of Biscay at the French city of Hendaye and the Spanish city of Irun The border continues eastward along the Pyrenees to the sovereign nation of Andorra ( 42°36′13″N 1°26′30″E / 42.60361°N 1.44167°E / 42.60361; 1.44167
The term French Riviera comes by analogy with the term Italian Riviera, which extends east of the French Riviera (from Ventimiglia to La Spezia). [13] As early as the 19th century, the British referred to the region as the Riviera or the French Riviera, usually referring to the eastern part of the coast, between Monaco and the Italian border. [14]
Hidden away in the vines less than an hour’s drive from Cannes, La Commanderie de Peyrassol was a hotspot on the sacred pilgrimage trail during the 13th century, when the Order of Knights of the ...
The Compañia de los Caminos de Hierro del Norte de España (CCHNE), known simply as Norte, was a Spanish railway company founded on December 29, 1858. [1] Its network was one of the most extensive in Spain, until it was nationalized in 1941, and integrated into the Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles (RENFE).
In 1879, the Bilbao brothers, Raimundo and Eusebio Real de Asúa along with the Riojan oenologist Isidro Corcuera del Campo, founded the Compañía Vinícola del Norte de España in the Haro station district, which began wine production with the French know-how. In a short time, they achieved a good product that was awarded in several ...
Northern Catalonia, North Catalonia [a] or French Catalonia is the formerly Catalan-speaking and cultural territory ceded to France by Spain through the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 in exchange of France's effective renunciation on the formal protection that it had given to the recently founded Catalan Republic.
The Toledo last name is a shortening of Álvarez de Toledo.In the 1570s, Pedro de Toledo, 8th son of García Álvarez de Toledo, 1st Duke of Alba, established a primogeniture (Spanish: Mayorazgo) over his estates and the surrounding lands, and became Lord of Mancera, Salmoral, Navarros, San Miguel, Montalbo and Gallegos, in the province of Avila, Castile-La Mancha, Spain.