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    Palacio de las Cortes is a building in Madrid where the Spanish Congress of Deputies meets. It is located on the Calle Zorrilla and the Carrera de San...
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    of Deputies meets in the Palacio de las Cortes. The Senate meets in the Palacio del Senado. Both are in Madrid. The Cortes are elected through universal...
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    the Senate. The Congress meets in the Palace of the Parliament (Palacio de las Cortes) in Madrid. Congress has 350 members elected from fifty-two constituencies...
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    the Palacio de las Cortes. With the arrival of the Second Republic, the unicameral parliament established its home at the Palacio de las Cortes and the...
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    Agudo, María Pilar (1989). Cuadernos de Arte e Iconografía. Tomo II. La iconografía del frontón del palacio de las Cortes. p. 4. "Preguntas frecuentes: Historia...
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    Among other works, she was co-designer of the expansion of the Palacio de las Cortes in 1994 and was project director for the Olympic Village on Barcelona's...
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    1820, the Cortes or Spanish Parliament, declared him a hero of Spanish democracy and installed a plaque to his memory in the Palacio de las Cortes, Madrid...
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    Traditionally exhibited at the Palacio de las Cortes in Madrid, the painting was temporarily moved to the seat of the Cortes of Castile and León in Valladolid...
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  • neoclassical façade with colonnade and pediment —Palacio de las Cortes—). There were convocations of Cortes in 1835 and 1836. Given the new political context...
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    Velázquez Bosco. The majority of his works were in Madrid, such as the Palacio de las Cortes (1843–1850). This building is the seat of the Congress of Deputies...
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  • The Cortes republicanas (English: Republican Courts), officially called Cortes – also called the Congreso de los Diputados (English: Congress of Deputies)...
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    During the general elections of 2015, she was reelected in to the Palacio de las Cortes, Madrid as member of congress. She is a member of the Finance and...
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    escorted by the Royal Guard through the streets of Madrid. At the Palacio de las Cortes the royal family received state honors, and the Princess of Asturias...
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    2023. Retrieved 26 August 2023. "Los Reyes abren las puertas de su jardín de verano en el Palacio de Marivent". HOLA (in Spanish). 2 May 2017. Archived...
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    the Government (Presidente del Gobierno de España). Following the General Election of the Cortes Generales (Cortes), and other circumstances provided for...
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    Venezuelan diaspora in Spain to mobilize on 10 September in front of Palacio de las Cortes, Madrid to demand recognition of González as President-elect of...
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    of state and crowned as King of Spain on 22 November 1975 at the Palacio de las Cortes, with the regnal name Juan Carlos I, skipping the natural succession...
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    Christina swore on the 1876 Constitution on 30 December 1885 at the Palacio de las Cortes, before the two legislative bodies. She rejected the title of reina...
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    capital until he was 13 years old, studying in CP Numancia, Infantes de Lara and Las Pedrizas. After his parents separated, he went back to Madrid with...
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  • The 9th Cortes Generales comprised both the lower (Congress) and upper (Senate) houses of the legislature of Spain following the 2008 general election...
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    creation in 1810 as President of the Cortes of Cádiz. The current Speaker, of the 15th Cortes Generales (102nd since the Cortes of Cádiz), is Francina Armengol...
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    Chambers of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales (respectively, the Palacio de las Cortes and the Palacio del Senado), also lie in Madrid. Madrid...
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    Hernán Cortés, since the King worried he was becoming too powerful. As Governor of Pánuco, Guzmán cracked down hard on the supporters of Cortés, stripping...
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    two days later on 22 November the Cortes Españolas proclaimed Juan Carlos King of Spain. In his address to the Cortes, Juan Carlos spoke of three factors:...
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    The Royal Palace of Madrid (Spanish: Palacio Real de Madrid) is the official residence of the Spanish royal family at the city of Madrid, although now...
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    Ricardo Balaca (category Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando alumni)
    displayed in the Palacio de las Cortes, and the Battle of Bailén. He also provided illustrations for a deluxe edition of the Miguel de Cervantes novel...
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    current meeting of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Spanish Cortes Generales, with the membership determined by the results of the general...
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    373/2020, de 18 de febrero, por el que se desarrolla la estructura orgánica básica del Ministerio de la Presidencia, Relaciones con las Cortes y Memoria...
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    Velázquez de Cuéllar, resulted in the recall of the expedition at the last moment, an order which Cortés ignored. Arriving on the continent, Cortés executed...
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    the Cortes are presided by the Speaker of the Congress of Deputies under a common procedure code passed by a majority of each chamber. The Cortes exert...
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