Placetas (Spanish pronunciation:[plaˈsetas]) is a city in the Villa Clara Province in the center of Cuba; before the change in the country's government in 1959 the province was called Las Villas. The town is also known as La Villa de los Laureles because of its wild laurel trees. Placetas is also a municipio, one of 13 subdivisions of the Villa Clara Province. Cuba's geographical center, Guaracabulla, is located in this municipality.
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co-presenter of Don Francisco Presenta, where he was nicknamed "el Divo de Placetas" by Don Francisco. He has also been a special guest on the television programs...
war. Sabotage, though suspected, has never been proven. Mola was born in Placetas, Cuba, at that time an overseas Spanish province, where his father, an...
capital), Remedios, Sagua La Grande, Camajuani, Caibarién, Ranchuelo, Placetas, and Manicaragua. Prior to 1976, the current provinces of Cienfuegos, Sancti...
November 2012. In January 2013 Joe Strummer had a plaza named in his honour, Placeta Joe Strummer, in the Spanish city of Granada, about 650m south of the Alhambra...
a small hamlet pertaining to the village of Jamamu, in the town of Las Placetas, belonging to the city of San José de las Matas. 107 Albania Moscopole...
and Guayos on 21 December, before moving on to capture the junction at Placetas. By Christmas Day, they had captured most of the province, leaving only...
Jamamucito is a hamlet pertaining to the village of Jamamu, in the town of Las Placetas, belonging to the city of San José de las Matas, in the Santiago province...
former Cuban President Jose Miguel Gomez and almost his entire command in Placetas. Collazo was regarded as a tactical expert and a student of military affairs...
call puerta de los Canónigos door, and perhaps a third was left to the Placeta del Marqués. Years later, the cathedral was small for its function. In...
Don José "Pepin" Garcia is the CEO of El Rey de los Habanos, Inc, a cigar company in Miami, also known as My Father Cigars. He is a noted cigar maker living...
owner. She was a pioneer in the genre of picaresque cuplé. She was born in Placetas, Las Villas, Cuba, to Spanish parents Antonia Audet and Isidro Portella...
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