2. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a famous
Spanish writer.
He studied in Alcalá de Henares and he lived in Seville
too.
His most famous book is “Don Quixote”.
He travelled to Italy and he was in the battle of Lepanto
too.
He was in prison in Argel.
He died in Madrid in 1616.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
3. Diego Velázquez was a famous Spanish painter.
He lived in Seville and Madrid.
He travelled to Italy to learn from the italian painters.
He painted a lot of paintings.
“Las Meninas” is one of his best paintings.
DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ
4. Josephine Cochrane was a rich woman from Chicago.
She was a very creative woman.
She invented the dishwasher.
JOSEPHINE COCHRANE
5. Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a famous
Spanish doctor.
He studied the nerve cells.
He received the Nobel Prize for medicine
in 1906.
He died in Madrid in 1934.
SANTIAGO RAMÓN Y CAJAL
6. Juan Sebastián Elcano was a famous
Spanish sailor.
He was the first man to go around the world
on a ship called “Victoria”.
JUAN SEBASTIÁN ELCANO
7. Marie Curie was a scientist from Poland.
She studied in Paris.
She married the scientist Pierre Curie.
She discovered a chemical element , the
radium.
She received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1904.
MARIE CURIE
8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a great musician
and composer.
He was from Austria.
He lived in Salzburg, Prague and Wien.
He played the piano brilliantly.
He composed a lot of symphonies and operas.
One of his most famous operas is “The Magic Flute”
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART