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  1. 3 days ago · One of the grandest is a 30-metre monument to Alfonso XII (who reigned from 1874 to 1885) on horseback, looking out over the lake. A 30m monument dedicated to the 19th-century Spanish king Alfonso ...

  2. 2 days ago · The history of Spain dates to contact between the pre-Roman peoples of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula made with the Greeks and Phoenicians. During Classical Antiquity, the peninsula was the site of multiple successive colonizations of Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans. Native peoples of the peninsula, such as the Tartessos ...

  3. Apr 5, 2024 · son Alfonso XII. Isabella II (born Oct. 10, 1830, Madrid—died April 9, 1904, Paris) was the queen of Spain (1833–68) whose troubled reign was marked by political instability and the rule of military politicians. Isabella’s failure to respond to growing demands for a more progressive regime, her questionable private life, and her political ...

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  4. 4 days ago · Reign of Alfonso XII (1874–1885) Regency of María Cristina (1885–1902) Reign of Alfonso XIII (1886–1931) Spanish–American War (1898) Spain during World War I (1914–1918) Rif War (–1927) Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923–1930) Dictablanda of Dámaso Berenguer (1930–1931)

  5. Apr 18, 2024 · The tiara was originally made for Maria Cristina, a nineteenth century Queen of Spain who was the wife of King Alfonso XII. She bequeathed the tiara to her son, Alfonso XIII, who passed it into the Bourbon-Two Sicilies family, via his son, the Infante Juan.

  6. 4 days ago · In the upper vestibule, we see a typical sixteenth-century chest and several paintings representing Queen Isabel II, Kings Alfonso XII, Fernando VII, Carlos IV, the explorers Christopher Columbus, Pedro Alvarado, Hernán Cortés with his bust, Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano. We also see Antonio de Ulloa, scientist; Antonio de Solís ...

  7. 6 days ago · Queen Letizia adorned the Diamond Loop Tiara, an exquisite diadem with its intricate looped design tracing its origins back to 1879 when it was bestowed as a wedding gift upon Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria upon her marriage to King Alfonso XII of Spain.

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