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    The Giralda (Spanish: La Giralda [la xiˈɾalda]) is the bell tower of Seville Cathedral in Seville, Spain. It was built as the minaret for the Great Mosque...
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  • Giralda Farms was the estate of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge in Madison, New Jersey. She would hold dog shows at the property. After her death it was converted...
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    in the center of the transept is 42 m (138 ft). The total height of the Giralda tower from the ground to the weather vane is 104.5 m (342 ft 10 in). The...
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  • Alimentos La Giralda is a Venezuelan trading company that imports, produces and distributes foodstuffs such as capers, pickles, olives, canned fruits...
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  • La Giralda may refer to: La Giralda (San Juan, Puerto Rico), listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places Alimentos La Giralda, a food company...
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    protect these civilians from violence. Thus Shed was replaced by Plan Giralda around 23 September 1964. Since the revolution, Zanzibar had merged with...
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    The Giralda is the name of a landmark in Kansas City, Missouri. It stands 138 feet (42 m) tall at the corner of West 47th Street and Mill Creek Parkway...
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    Graciosa (1988) (ex-Dejá vu) A75 Sisargas (1995) (ex-Isabelle 1982) A76 Giralda (1993) (ex-Juan de Borbon's yacht), 1958) A78 Peregrina (2007) A82 Contramaestre...
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    Giralda ou La nouvelle psyché is an opéra comique with music by Adolphe Adam and a text by Eugène Scribe. It had its first performance at the Opéra-Comique...
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  • today owned by Philip Morris, Fosforera Suramericana, C.A., Alimentos La Giralda, and Banco Exterior. Nowadays, Fierro Group in Venezuela (also known as...
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  • Vernoy de Saint-Georges 24 December 1849 Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier Giralda, ou La nouvelle psyché opéra comique 3 acts (135 minutes) Eugène Scribe...
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    his spiritual home under its new director, Émile Perrin. In July 1850 Giralda, ou La nouvelle psyché – one of Adam's best operas in Forbes's view – was...
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    Badajoz (section La Giralda)
    Santiago, the San José and the San Vicente. La Giralda, located near Plaza de la Soledad, is a replica of the Giralda in Sevilla. The structure was completed...
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    architectural firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst & White using the shape of the Giralda tower of Seville's Cathedral combined with French Renaissance details....
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    the city's most prominent landmarks is the cathedral's bell tower, the Giralda, formerly the minaret of the Almohad mosque. The minaret's main shaft is...
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    part of the Biltmore hotel chain. The hotel's tower is inspired by the Giralda, the medieval tower of the cathedral of Seville. When completed in 1926...
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    structure with a Moorish feel, including a minaret-like tower modeled after Giralda, the bell tower of the Cathedral of Seville, soaring 32 stories, the city's...
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    Córdoba and the Alhambra in Granada (mainly 1338–1390), as well as the Giralda in Seville (1184). Other notable examples include the ruined palace city...
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    Her secular name was Bárbara Jurado Antúnez. She was born inside the Giralda, the bell tower of Seville Cathedral, as her father was a bell-ringer who...
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    attack from the mainland of Spain. The bastion was based on the older Giralda tower, built in 1309. The bastion, with a mole that extended into the Bay...
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    the rocks in the canyon were "bigger than the great tower of Seville, Giralda". It is speculated that their Hopi guides likely knew routes to the canyon...
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    is linked to the Giralda is the Patio of Oranges: that is the garden of the Cathedral/former great mosque of Seville, where the Giralda is.) Similarly,...
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    patrons of potters. According to tradition, they are protectors of the Giralda and the Cathedral of Seville, and are said to have protected both during...
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    including its antenna. It is built on the former site of the Confitería La Giralda, renowned for being where Gerardo Matos Rodríguez wrote his tango "La Cumparsita"...
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    in 1937, and the first show was held at Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge's Giralda Farms in New Jersey. Following the Second World War, imports from the United...
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    currently known. "La cumparsita" was first played in public in the old Café La Giralda in Montevideo, Uruguay. The Tango Museum of Montevideo stands currently...
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    of Seville, including the converted minaret of the old Moorish mosque Giralda. Santa Cruz was Seville's old judería (Jewish quarter): when Ferdinand...
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    December 1996 during a Christmas reunion of the royal family at the Villa Giralda, the residence of her cousin and sister-in-law, the Countess of Barcelona...
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    tower may have been the current 16th-century iteration of the 12th-century Giralda bell tower in Seville, Spain. The entire length of the building on both...
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    000 Uruguayan pesos. It was built on the site where the Confiteria La Giralda was once located, a place renowned for being where Gerardo Matos Rodríguez...
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