What is "coruna"

Usage examples of "coruna".

He had flown to Madrid, then took a connecting flight on Iberian Airlines to La Coruna, in Galicia.

He and another had boarded the helicopter at La Coruna, then made a quick stop at the harbor town of Muros, forty-seven miles southwest, and from there flew the thirteen miles to the ship.

From La Coruna, their route passed through Betanzos, once the capital of the kingdom of Galicia, then Lugo, Astorga, Burgos, and Bilbao.

In mid-August, the eleven-year-old boy sailed on the South Carolina, which, after a troubled voyage, put in at La Coruna, Spain, where eventually he sailed on another American ship, Cicero, a privateer, and after more delays and adventures reached home at the end of January 1782, more than five months after leaving Amsterdam.

Not overtaking him our admiral, Having the coast clear for his purposes, Entered Coruna, and found order there To open the port of Brest and come on hither.

The features of the elevated enclosure of San Carlos can be recognized in dim outline, and also those of the Old Town of Coruna around, though scarcely a lamp is shining.

Bordeaux, San Sebastian, La Coruna, Lisbon, and finally through the Strait of Gibraltar.

I would have died on that bloody field in Coruna, along with most of our regiment.

No guns will be abandoned before Coruna, but what are left at Coruna will be mentioned and re-embarked.

After 1529, in order to facilitate emigration to America, vessels were allowed to sail from certain other ports, notably San Sebastian, Bilboa, Coruna, Cartagena and Malaga.

They travelled to Salamanca, Valladolid, Leon, Astorga, Villafranca, Lugo, Coruna, to Santiago, Vigo, and again to Coruna, to Ferrol, Oviedo, Santander, Burgos, Valladolid, and so back to Madrid in October.

The only sizable harbors are at Coruna and the naval facilities at Ferrol across the bay.

If Charles were the captain of such a ship, he would immediately stand well out to sea to avoid the naval traffic along the Portuguese coast and make a dash into Coruna Bay from the northwest, with the prevailing winds on his quarter.

The Coruna lighthouse was just visible five or six miles away, and soon so would be the forts on either side of the entrance to the bay.

Every eye watched as the Spaniard raced at perilous speed, burying her bow in green water at every crest, now almost level with the Coruna headland.