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Pignatelli Park - The park was raised to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the construction of the Imperial Channel, which was finished due to decisive promotion by Ramon Pignatelli. The statue of Pignatelli was designed for the Glorieta in Plaza Aragon, where it stayed until 1904, date when it was moved to its ...
Ramon J. Sender - Ramon J. Sender (Ramon Jose Sender) 1902-82, Spanish novelist. Sender was born in Chalamera (Aragon) and made his early studies in Tauste (aaragoza). A journalist, Sender fought on the side of the Loyalists in the Spanish civil war. He left Spain in 1938 and became a U.S. citizen in 1946. Sender's ...
Ramon Pignatelli, Aragon - Ramon Pignatelli (1734-1793). Patron of Zaragoza (Saragossa), who was an engineer and vice-chancellor of the University of Zaragoza. Amongst his works he ordered the construction of the Imperial Canal, the bullring and the Casa Misericordia (Mercy House). He created the Sociedad Económica de ...
Ramon y Cajal, a Nobel Prize in Aragon - Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906, was born on May 1, 1852, at Petilla in Aragon, Spain. As a boy he was apprenticed first to a barber and then to a cobbler. He himself wished to be an artist - his gift for draughtsmanship is evident in his published works. His father, ...