Mourvèdre ( also known as Mataró or Monastrell ) is a red wine grape variety that is grown in many regions around the world including the Rhône and Provence regions of France, the Valencia and Jumilla denominación de origens of Spain, California and Washington State and the Australian regions of South Australia and New South Wales.

Mourvèdre is the name used in France ; Mataró is used in Portugal and parts of the New World ; and Monastrell is used in Spain.

So, he sent Alfonso to the Sandhurst Military Academy in England, where the training Alfonso received was severe but more cosmopolitan than Spain, given the current athmosphere

Alfonso requested support from Braccio da Montone, who was besieging Joan's troops in L ' Aquila, but had to set sail for Spain, where a war had broken out between his brothers and the Kingdom of Castile.

It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and the German-speaking parts of Europe.

Only from Spain did Louis XIV receive any good news where Das Minas and Galway had been forced to retreat from Madrid towards Valencia, allowing Philip V to re-enter his capital on 4 October.

Dilger eventually fled to Madrid, Spain, where he died during the Influenza Pandemic of 1918.

In 2009, transgenic maize was grown commercially in 11 countries, including the United States ( where 85 % of the maize crop was genetically modified ), Argentina ( 83 % GM ), Brazil ( 36 % GM ), South Africa ( 57 % GM ), Canada ( 84 % GM ), the Philippines ( 19 % GM ) and Spain ( 20 % GM ).

The music of Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias ( Spain ) and Portugal are also considered Celtic music, the tradition being particularly strong in Brittany, where Celtic festivals large and small take place throughout the year, and in Wales, where the ancient eisteddfod tradition has been revived and flourishes.

In other countries where liberal conservative movements have entered the political mainstream, such as Italy and Spain, the terms liberal and conservative may be synonymous.

Couscous is also very popular in France, where it is now considered a traditional dish, and has also become popular in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece.

As he was trying to reach either Italy or Spain, Magnentius ' supporters cornered him in a fortification in Vicus Helena ( now Elne ) in the Pyrenees, southwestern Gaul, where he was killed by Magnentius ' assassins after seeking sanctuary in a temple.

Spain has had a number of isolated and endogamous social groups where an individual's mores, culture and worth is set at birth.

Little is known of his life, but he was Venetian ambassador to Spain in 1736, where the famous castrato singer Farinelli heard him sing.

Almost immediately after the order of Kotaka was placed, Fernando Villaamil, second officer of the Ministry of the Navy of Spain where he was put in charge of developing the concept of a new ship designed to combat torpedo boats, placed an order for a large torpedo gunboat in November 1885, with the British builder James and George Thompson, of Clydebank, not far from where the Yarrow shipyards would move from London 20 years later.

Short verse dialogues between Death and each of its victims, which could have been performed as plays, can be found in the direct aftermath of the Black Death in Germany ( where it was known as the Totentanz, and in Spain as la Danza de la Muerte ).

The dagger was very popular as a fencing and personal defense weapon in 17th and 18th century Spain, where it was referred to as the daga or puñal.

On July 24, 1936, the Republican cruiser Méndez Núñez arrived at Santa Isabel ; on its way back to Spain the officers planned to join the rebellion, but the Spanish government, knowing this, ordered the ship to go back to the colony ; on August 14 the Méndez Núñez was back in Fernando Poo, where the sailors took control of her ; on September 21 the ship arrived in Málaga ( Republican Spain ).

Paul, considering his task complete, wanted to preach the gospel in Spain, where he would not " build upon another man ’ s foundation ".

He travelled to Spain in 1826, but returned to Bordeaux, where he died of a stroke in 1828, at the age of 82.

As the foremost saint from Navarre and one of the main Jesuit saints, he is much venerated in Spain and the Hispanic countries where Francisco Javier or Javier are common male given names.

This was the point at which the silver and gold treasure of Peru had to be landed and sent overland to the Caribbean Sea, where galleons from Spain would pick it up at the town of Nombre de Dios.

In Spain, where the use of fans ( called " abanicos ") is still very popular today, ladies used them to communicate with suitors or prospective suitors without their family or chaperon finding out.

He was very active in furthering the accession of the French candidate for the throne of Spain, Philip V. Two years later, Vendôme having died in the interval, Alberoni was appointed consular agent for Parma at Philip's court, where he was the royal favourite, being raised at the same time to the dignity of count.

In Spain, winemakers are petitioning authorities to allow Merlot to be a permitted grape in the red wines of the Rioja region.

It is often used as a blending grape in Spain and Italy as well.

This variety of grape is not very common in Spain and is to be found mainly in Catalonia, where it is an authorized variety in four Denominaciones de Origen: Catalunya ( DO ), Conca de Barberà ( DO ), Penedès and Terra Alta ( DO ).

It's an important grape variety in southeastern Spain, under the local name garnacha tintorera, as it occupies some 3, 000 hectares, mostly in the Almansa, Manchuela and Jumilla appellations.

In Spain the grape is almost non-existent in its ancestral home of Aragon where it was once a secondary component of wine from the Cariñena region after Grenache.

The grape is also planted in various wine-growing regions of the New World, such as California, Washington, and Australia as well as European regions such as Crete, Tuscany and Spain.

Grenache is one of the most widely planted red wine grape varieties in the world with France and Spain being its largest principal wine regions.

In Spain, Grenache is known as Garnacha and given the likely history of the grape this is most likely the grape's original name.

Widely planted in northeastern and central Spain, Garnacha was long considered a " workhorse " grape of low quality suitable for blending.

Today it is the third most widely planted red grape variety in Spain ( behind Tempranillo and Bobal ) with more than and is seen in both varietal wines and blends.

Tempranillo is a variety of black grape widely grown to make full-bodied red wines in its native Spain.

Muscat is widely grown in Portugal and Spain, where the grape and the wines produced from it are known as Moscatel or Muscatel.

Palomino is a white grape widely grown in Spain and South Africa, and best known for its use in the manufacture of sherry.

In Spain, the grape is split into the sub-varieties Palomino Fino, Palomino Basto, and Palomino de Jerez, of which Palomino Fino is by far the most important, being the principal grape used in the manufacture of sherry.

In December 2006 Spanish researchers, using DNA techniques, discovered that the Mission grape of California and Latin America, cultivated by the Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries throughout the New World, is in fact the now rare Listan Prieto or Palomino Negro of Spain.

In 1833 James Busby returned from France and Spain with a serious selection of grape varieties including most classic French grapes and a good selection of grapes for fortified wine production.

California's earliest grape vines were imported from New Spain, or Mexico, which in turn were brought by Spanish explorers and settlers.

This grape is native to Spain where it represents about 30 % of all grapes grown.

As of 2004, Airén was estimated to be the world's most grown grape variety in terms of planted surface, at, although it is almost exclusively found in Spain.

Pedro Ximénez ( also known as PX and many other variations ) is the name of a white grape grown in certain regions of Spain, and also a varietal wine, an intensely sweet, dark, dessert sherry.

Verdelho is also confused with the similarly named Verdelho Feijão and the Gouveio of Portugal, the Italian grape Verduzzo and the Verdejo white grape grown in Spain.

Despite this close association with Murviedro and Mataró, the grape became known in Spain as Monstrell for reasons that are still unknown though Oz Clarke speculates that a " neutral " name may have been chosen so as not to offend the local pride of both regions.