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30th Anniversary of the Twinning between Marchena and the French city of Châteaudun

The streets and the entrance to the Coullaut Valera Museum are adorned with French and Spanish flags to welcome the mayor and other members of the municipal council of the French city of Châteaudun, who are visiting these days to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their twinning with Marchena.

UPDATE: Full coverage of the commemorative event by RTVMarchena, concluding with a particularly intriguing montage.

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4 November, 2023

23:36

Long live the couple!

Today, it has been a very special day. My cousin Cristina’s wedding. Of all my cousins, she was the first to have a wedding (my cousin Jorge had gotten married first, but civilly without any type of ceremony or celebration). It was in the church of San Juan Bautista de Marchena:

It has been an incredible wedding. Now it’s time to rest, my body is destroyed after many hours of dancing.

As an anniversary of the day completely unrelated to the above, today marks exactly 530 years since Christopher Columbus landed on a Caribbean island and named it Guadalupe, in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Cáceres (Extremadura, Spain).

All documentation, including the ship’s logs and personal diaries of Christopher Columbus, are preserved in Seville in the Archive of the Indies building. Right next door, in the cathedral, his mortal remains lie in an impressive tomb:

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16 June, 2023

13:34

Coullaut Valera exhibition in San Pedro street, Marchena

Lorenzo Coullaut Valera was a Spanish sculptor and illustrator born in Marchena in 1876, the son of a French engineer. He spent his childhood in Nantes, France, and returned to Spain in 1893. His works are found throughout Spain and Latin-America and he has a museum in his hometown.

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