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A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.
Pamplona became a Castilian-Spanish outpost at the foot of the western Pyrenees. After the Castilian conquest, king Ferdinand V ordered in 1513 the demolition and removal of the medieval castle and the city's monasteries, as well as the building of a new castle in a very close place. In 1530, with Navarre under Spanish military occupation, the ...
It has gained a measure of fame as it is the longest place name found in any English-speaking country, and possibly the longest place name in the world, according to World Atlas. [2] The name of the hill (with 85 characters) has been listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest place name. Other versions of the name, including longer ...
San Nicolás (Saint Nicolas in English) is one of the three boroughs that merged in 1423 to form the modern city of Pamplona (Iruña in Basque). The others were Navarrería (the original Navarrese town) and San Cernin.
Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI; The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten; The days of the week; e.g., TH for Thursday; Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and ...
Udaletxe Plaza or Plaza Consistorial (City Hall Square) is a town square beside Pamplona-Iruña City Hall in the center of the Pamplona-Iruña Old Town in Pamplona-Iruña, Navarre. It is worldwide known by San Fermin .
Hemingway became a bullfighting aficionado after seeing the Pamplona Festival of San Fermín in the 1920s. He wrote about the tradition in the novel The Sun Also Rises . [ 1 ] In Death in the Afternoon , Hemingway explores the metaphysics of bullfighting—the ritualized, almost religious practice—that he considered analogous to the writer's ...
Sport in Pamplona (4 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Pamplona" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...