Rafael de espana biography definition
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Rafael del Riego
Spanish general and politician (1784–1823)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is del Riego and the second or maternal family name is Flórez.
Rafael del Riego y Flórez (7 April 1784 – 7 November 1823) was a Spanish general and liberal politician, who played a key role in the establishment of the Liberal Triennium (Trienio liberal in Spanish).
Early life
[edit]Riego was born on 7 April 1784[1] (according to other sources 24 November 1785) in Tuña, Tineo in Asturias. After graduating from the University of Oviedo in 1807, he moved to Madrid, where he joined the army.
Peninsular War
[edit]In 1808, during the Spanish War of Independence he was taken captive by the French and imprisoned in El Escorial, from where he eventually escaped.
On 10 November he took part in the Battle of Espinosa de los Monteros, after which he once again was taken prisoner. Three days later he was sent to France, and, after he changed his name to "Riego" (without the "del"), was eventually released. He traveled around England and the German states, and in 1814 he returned to Spain, right before the Spanish Constitution of 1812 was abolished by Fernando VII. In Spain, Riego once again joined the army with a rank of lieutenant col
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Science Fiction / Banco de España
Walking down an unassuming side street in Madrid earlier this month, I encountered this slightly threatening yet rather wonderful futuristic medallion on the side of a grand but unmarked building. Diving down the rabbit hole of the internet, this is what I later found out about it.
The medallions (a word that itself required a fair amount of searching/asking to remember!) are on the outside of one corner of the Banco de España (National Bank of Spain) headquarters, while the rest of the building is covered in more conventional architectural ornaments. It turns out that that corner (the one on the right of the photo below – the bank covers the entire block) is an extension (the third of three: 1927, 1969, and 1978-2006) to the original building, which was inaugurated in 1891. The third extension has a slightly more convoluted history, with the idea to take over the entire block originating in the 50s, the original architectural plan being stillborn in the late 70s, with construction finally starting in 2003 and finished in 2006.
[above: image from the Bank of Spain, bde.com.es]
The history of the extension, from the official site of the Bank of Spain:
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