Bellinzona (/ ˌ b ɛ l ɪ n ˈ z oʊ n ə / BEL-in-ZOH-nə, Italian: [bellinˈtsoːna], Ticinese Lombard: [belĩˈtsɔna]; French: Bellinzone [bɛlɛ̃zon]; German: Bellenz [ˈbɛlɛnts]; Romansh: Blizuna [bliˈtsuːnə] ())is a municipality, a historic Swiss town, and the capital of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The town is famous for its three castles (Castelgrande, Montebello, Sasso ...

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spanish: [miˈɣel de θeɾˈβantes saaˈβeðɾa]; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work often cited as both the first modern novel and one of …

Västerås (/ ˌ v ɛ s t ər ˈ oʊ s / VEST-ər-OHSS, US also /-ˈ ɔː s /-⁠ AWSS, Swedish: [vɛstɛrˈoːs] ()) is a city in central Sweden on the shore of Lake Mälaren in the province of Västmanland, 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Stockholm.The city had a population of 127,799 at the end of 2019, out of the municipal total of 154,049. Västerås is the seat of Västerås ...

Las Palmas (UK: / ˌ l æ s ˈ p æ l m ə s,-ˈ p ɑː l-/, US: / ˌ l ɑː s ˈ p ɑː l m ə s,-m ɑː s /; Spanish: [las ˈpalmas]), officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a Spanish city and capital of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, on the Atlantic Ocean.. It is the capital (jointly with Santa Cruz de Tenerife), the most populous city in the autonomous community of the Canary ...

Places Europe. Sala, the historical name of the river IJssel and home of the Salii Franks; Sala (Estonian island), one of the Uhtju islands Sala Baganza, a municipality in Emilia-Romagna, Italy; Sala Bolognese, a municipality in Emilia-Romagna, Italy; Sala Consilina, a municipality in Campania, Italy; Sala Municipality, Latvia, a municipality in Latvia; Sala, Sala Parish, a …

The current administrative division of Latvia came into force on 1 July 2021.. On 10 June 2020, the Saeima approved a municipal reform that would reduce the 110 municipalities and nine republic cities to 43 local government units consisting of 36 municipalities (novadi) and seven state cities (valstspilsētas, plural). On 1 June 2021, the Constitutional Court of Latvia ruled that the ...

Overview. Legally and administratively, the term stad is not used in Sweden since the municipal reform of 1971, when the municipality (kommun) became the only existing form of local government.Before the reform there were 132 urban centres (133 to 1966) that had the title of stad.. The urban centres of these municipalities are still called stad in daily speech and 14 of …

The Palace of Queluz (Portuguese: Palácio de Queluz, Portuguese pronunciation: ) is an 18th-century palace located at Queluz, a city of the Sintra Municipality, in the Lisbon District, on the Portuguese Riviera.One of the last great Rococo buildings to be designed in Europe, the palace was conceived as a summer retreat for Dom Pedro of Braganza, later to become husband and …

A planet symbol (or planetary symbol) is a graphical symbol used in astrology and astronomy to represent a classical planet (including the Sun and the Moon) or one of the modern planets. The symbols were also used in alchemy to represent the metals associated with the planets, and in calendars for their associated days. The use of these symbols derives from Classical Greco …

Uppsala (/ ˈ ʊ p s ɑː l ə, ˈ ʌ p-/, also US: /-s ə l ə, ˈ uː p s ɑː l ə, ʊ p ˈ s ɑː l ə / or all ending in /-s ɑː l ɑː /, Swedish: [ˈɵ̂pːˌsɑːla] (); archaically spelled Upsala) is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö.It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Located 71 km (44 mi) north of the ...