Spanish Geography and Nature

Geography And Nature

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  1. Which place completes this sentence about Casa Batlló? By the end of the 19th century, the Eixample's Passeig de Gràcia had become ______'s most fashionable boulevard for the wealthiest bourgeois fami…
  2. Which place completes this sentence about Royal Palace of Madrid? The palace is located on Bailén Street in the western part of central ______, east of the Manzanares River, and is accessible from Ópe…
  3. Which place completes this sentence about Royal Palace of Madrid? Philip II made ______ his capital in 1561 and continued the renovations, with new additions.
  4. Which place completes this sentence about Plaza Mayor, Madrid? The Plaza Mayor of ______ traces its origins to the 15th century, when it was known as the Plaza del Arrabal and served as the town’s mai…
  5. Which place completes this sentence about Puerta del Sol? The Puerta del Sol originated as one of the gates in the city wall that surrounded ______ in the 15th century.
  6. Which place completes this sentence about Puerta del Sol? The Puerta del Sol has seen protests against the 2004 ______ bombings on commuter trains, and Spain's involvement in the Iraq War.
  7. Which place completes this sentence about Alcázar of Seville? In the year 712, ______ was conquered by the Umayyad Caliphate.
  8. Which place completes this sentence about Alcázar of Seville? Towards 1150, the Almohad Caliphate began to develop ______ as their capital in al-Andalus.
  9. Which place completes this sentence about Guggenheim Museum Bilbao? Guggenheim Foundation that it would fund a Guggenheim museum to be built in ______'s decrepit port area, once the city's main source…
  10. Which place completes this sentence about City of Arts and Sciences? Ten Ros drew up a first draft, entitled "Vilanova, A City of Science for ______", which was officially presented to the Generalitat…
  11. Which place completes this sentence about Costa Blanca? The Iberians are the oldest people known to have lived in what is now ______ province.
  12. Which place completes this sentence about Costa Blanca? Later, the whole territory became under the control of the Kingdom of ______, which was one of the domains of the Crown of Aragon.
  13. Which place completes this sentence about Costa Blanca? In 2023 ______ province had 12 deputies in the Spanish Parliament and 35 deputies in the Corts Valencianes, the regional parliament of the Valen…
  14. Which place completes this sentence about Catalonia? The capital and largest city, ______, is the second-most populous municipality in Spain and the fifth-most populous urban area in the European Unio…
  15. Which place completes this sentence about Catalonia? In 1137, the County of ______ and the Kingdom of Aragon formed a dynastic union, resulting in a composite monarchy, the Crown of Aragon.
  16. Which place completes this sentence about Galicia? Located in the northwest Iberian Peninsula, it includes the provinces of ______, Lugo, Ourense, and Pontevedra.
  17. Which place completes this sentence about Basque Country? Almost half of the autonomous community's 2,227,684 inhabitants live in the ______ metropolitan area, almost the entirety of the province of B…
  18. Which place completes the sentence? In the Cortes of ______ of 1295, Ferdinand IV is recognized as king.
  19. Which place completes this sentence about Guadalquivir? During the late 18th century, a long series of works was started to again provide ______ with a good connection to the sea.
  20. Which place completes this sentence about Guadalquivir? The construction of the canal known as the Corta de Merlina in 1794 marked the beginning of the modernisation of the port of ______.
  21. Which place completes this sentence about Iberian wolf? Some authors claim that the south-eastern Spanish wolf, last sighted in ______ in the 1930s, was a different subspecies called Canis lupus deita…

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