; August 13: Nationalist under the command of General Dávila start their offensive against Santander, the next big city in their race towards Gijón.

Like most old football clubs, Sporting de Gijón did not initially have any badge displayed on their shirts.

Sporting de Gijón have worn red and white striped jerseys since their inception, being the first spanish actual first division's team to wear red & white, as both Athletic Bilbao and Atlético Madrid wore blue and white until 1909.

* Café Gijón ( Madrid )

* ( mixed high speed-conventional ) Gijón – Alicante, via Valladolid and Madrid.

Cunningham won a 2nd Spanish Cup medal as he played in the final when Real Madrid beat Gijón 2 – 1, but it was a depressing campaign for him.

The loan move wasn't a great success ( 5 appearances, 1 goal ), and Cunningham returned to Real Madrid, where he was promptly loaned out to Sporting Gijón for the 1983 / 4 season.

Notable canteras include those of Athletic Bilbao, Real Sociedad, Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Real Racing Club, Atlético Madrid, RCD Espanyol and Sporting de Gijón.

During his time at Sporting Gijón, Moran roomed with promising youngster and future Real Madrid and Barcelona star Luis Enrique.

* Café Gijón ( Madrid )

* Café Gijón ( Madrid )

On the 13th of February 2012, Clemente signed as the new manager of Sporting de Gijón until the end of the current season.

The most important port and harbours are Algeciras, Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao others: Cádiz, Cartagena, Ceuta, Huelva, A Coruña, Las Palmas, Málaga, Melilla, Gijón, Palma de Mallorca, Saguntum, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Los Cristianos ( Tenerife ), Santander, Tarragona, Vigo, Motril, Almería, Seville, Castellón de la Plana, Alicante, Pasaia, Avilés, and Ferrol.

According to the late tradition, Munuza, the Berber governor of Iegione ( either Gijón or León ), became attracted to Pelagius ' sister and sent word to Tariq ibn Ziyad, who ordered him to capture Pelagius and send him to Córdoba.

According to the descriptions of Strabo, Dio Cassius and other Graeco-Roman geographers, the lands of Asturias were inhabited in the beginning of the Christian era by several peoples, amongst whom the more important were: From the Cantabrians, the Vadinienses, who inhabited the Picos de Europa region and whose settlement gradually expanded southward during the first centuries of the modern era ; the Orgenomesci, who dwelled along the Asturian eastern coast ; and from the Astures, the Saelini, whose settlement extended through the Sella valley ; the Luggones, who had their capital in Lucus Asturum and whose territories stretched between the rivers Sella and Nalón ; the Astures ( in the strictest sense ), who dwelled in inner Asturias, between the current councils of Piloña and Cangas del Narcea ; and the Paesici, who had settled along the coast of Western Asturias, between the mouth of the Navia river and the modern city of Gijón.

The most important cities are the communal capital, Oviedo ( Uviéu ), the seaport and largest city Gijón ( Xixón ), and the industrial town of Avilés.

Gijón (; Asturian: Xixón ), officially Gijón / Xixón, is a coastal industrial city and a municipality in the autonomous community of Asturias in Spain.

* Alfonso Enríquez de Castilla ( 1355-1398 ), a son of Elvira Íñiguez, Count of Noreña and Gijón

* A66 motorway ( Spain ), a road connecting Gijón and Seville

Image: Elogio_chillida_gijon. jpg | Elogio del Horizonte ( Eulogy to the Horizon ), concrete ( 1989 ), Gijón, Spain

Concert at Jovellanos Theatre, Gijón ( Spain ), April 2006

For his films he has received numerous awards from many international festivals, including the American Federation of Arts Experimental Film Award in 1988, the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1996, the main award at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen in 1999, the Ken Burns “ Best of the Festival “ Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2003, the German Short Film Prize for Animation in 2006 ( with Christoph Girardet ), the Prix Canal + du meilleur court métrage at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 ( with Christoph Girardet ), and the Premio Principado de Asturias al Mejorcortometraje at the Gijón International Film Festival in 2011 ( with Christoph Girardet ).

School of Law ( since 1608 ), Teaching and Education ( 1845 ), Chemistry ( 1848 ), Polytechnic School of Mieres ( 1855 ), Jovellanos Faculty of Commerce, Tourism and Social Sciences ( 1866 ), Gijón Polytechnic School of Engineering ( 1888 ), Philosophy and Letters ( 1892 ), Economy and Business ( 1908 ), Teaching and Geology ( 1958 ), Mining Engineering ( 1959 ), Biology ( 1961 ), Medicine and Health Sciences ( 1968 ), Merchant Marine ( 1979 ), School of Computer Engineering ( 1982 ), Sciences ( 1990 ), Psychology ( 1991 )

His career never really got back on track, not even upon a return to Setúbal, which happened after another unassuming spell, in La Liga with Sporting de Gijón ; he successively played with FC Zürich, Club Athlétique Bizertin and Al-Shabab Riyadh, before rejoining Africa Sports.

Former Irish international Kevin Moran, who would later play for Manchester United, Sporting de Gijón and Blackburn Rovers played in the League of Ireland B and was signed for Manchester United from UCD ’ s graduate team, Pegasus.

The car ferries from Gijón to Nantes / Saint-Nazaire, Portsmouth to Bilbao and from Plymouth, Portsmouth and Poole to Santander provide one of the most convenient ways to see cetaceans in European waters.

The most commonly accepted hypothesis for this battle ( epic as described by Christian chronicles, but a mere skirmish in Muslim texts ) is that the Moorish column was attacked from the cliffs and then fell back through the valleys towards present day Gijón, but was attacked whilst in retreat by the retinue and nearly destroyed.

Together with the Universidad Laboral de Gijón, it is the most prominent example of the original Spanish Neo-Herrerian style, which was intended as a revival of Juan de Herrera's architecture, exemplified in El Escorial.

Most of the secular songs in both manuscripts, including those by Perez de Gijón, are villancicos ; most of them are for three voices, with the tune in the topmost voice.

His 7 goals against Sporting de Gijón remain the record for most goals scored in a single match in La Liga.

Except for a brief two-year stint with Sporting de Gijón, when most key players left the club in support of director of football – later president – Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, he was on all important moments of the rebirth of the club: the 20-year league draught end in 1978 – 79, the first UEFA Cup Winners ' Cup final against Juventus F. C.

After training Spain and especially recently, has largely been chosen to train teams in difficult situation, but most times finished in relegation or failing to qualify in the objective competition: Betis, Marseille, Tenerife, Athletic Bilbao, Serbia, Murcia, Valladolid, Cameroon and Sporting de Gijón.

On 19 December 2009, Soldado took his league tally to ten after scoring twice in a 2 – 1 win at Sevilla FC ; with this achievement, he became Getafe's best ever scorer in the first division, surpassing Manu del Moral and Daniel Güiza ; he missed one month of competition due to injury but, in his return to action, scored from a bicycle kick, earning his side a point in the 1 – 1 home draw against Gijón.

Before the switch from blue and white to red and white, only one other team wore red and white, Sporting de Gijón, since 1905.

Gijón / Xixón city is divided in four big areas ( Centre, West, South and " Rural ") and 45 neighborhoods / parishes:

Nationalists enter Gijón and plunder the city for days ; death sentences over Asturians are so frequently imposed and carried out that the Nationalists themselves call their jurisdiction " the machine gun ".

That Munuza's seat was at Gijón or León is sufficient to demonstrate that the Arabs had established their rule in the Asturias and that Pelagius was not therefore the leader of a local resistance to Arab conquest.

From 1941 until the 1970s, due to a temporary law forbidding the use of foreign words in football club names, the team's official denomination was Real Gijón.

He was the spokesman for the Gijón Council between 1979 and 1986, county councillor and regional adviser of the Pre-Autonomous Body.

Areces was born in Gijón, and prior to his becoming President of Asturias in 1999, he had served as mayor of Gijón between 1987 and 1999.

He was married in Gijón, Spain in August 2006 to journalist and TV newscaster Irma Page.

By the middle of the 20th century emigration started again and strongly, but this time it was directed to different destinations: to the centre of Europe, France, Germany, and also to the main industrial towns and cities of Asturias, especially Gijón and Avilés, etc.

In addition to the songs found in this manuscript, some songs attributed to Perez de Gijón are also in the Cancionero de la Colombina, a late 15th century manuscript from Seville ; this manuscript was part of the library of Ferdinand Columbus, the son of the explorer, by 1534.

Having been defeated in his bid to secure the region of León, he fled from Gijón, but Christian chronicles reported he was killed with all his soldiers in Trubia or La Felguera.

He married four times, firstly to Margarida Martins, without known issue, secondly with Branca Dias, fathering Branca Dias Perestrello, Dame of Queen Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, who was the mistress of Dom Pedro de Noronha ( Castle of Gijón, 1379-August 20, 1452 ), Grandson of King Fernando I of Portugal and of Grandson of King Enrique II of Castile, 4th Archbishop of Lisbon ( 1424 – 1452 ), by whom she had issue, including D. Pedro de Noronha, Lord Chamberlain to King John II of Portugal, his son, D. Martinho de Noronha, was sent by King John II to escort Christopher Columbus from Restelo to Vale do Paraíso, a property belonging to the Order of Santiago located Northeast of Lisbon.

In a career totally connected with Sporting de Gijón and FC Barcelona, he was widely regarded as one of the country's best strikers, having won a total of seven Pichichi Trophy awards, five of those in La Liga.

Melchor de Jovellanos was born at Gijón in Asturias, Spain.

Godoy returned to power in 1798 and Jovellanos was again sent away to Gijón.

Adebayor was heavily criticised for his performance against Sporting Gijón, especially for missing many chances.