Link profile: Ayuntamiento de Linares

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Linares is the second-largest city in the province of Jaén, a former mining town now given over to car-manufacturing and other industry and the centre of an important agricultural area. It is not a picturesque place, though it has a long and noble history (Carthaginian general Hannibal, the elephant man, married a local princess here - now that's what I call history), but is quite likable and a number of points make it of outstanding interest. To begin with, Linares was the birthplace of classical guitarist Andrés Segovia, and his tomb is now there, in a 17th-century palace converted into the home of the Andres Segovia Foundation (the link is somewhere on this page). Then, Linares hosts the most interesting annual tournament in chess, with the possible exception of the chaotic World Championship (current World Champion Viswanathan Anand won the Linares tournament in 2007 and 2008). And to return to the subject of deaths, Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez, "Manolete", bullfighting's most mythological name, was killed in Linares' bullring in 1947, and I have the feeling that Manolete-pilgrims make up the bulk of the little tourism that Linares receives. The link goes to the website of Linares City Council.
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