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Gran Canaria Airport
Gran Canaria Airport, also known as Gando Airport or Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria, is the main airport of Gran Canaria in Spain's Canary Islands, opened in 1930.
Gran Casino
Gran Casino (En el viejo Tampico), 1947 Mexican musical drama, Luis Buñuel's first Mexican feature, produced by Óscar Dancigers, starring Jorge Negrete and Libertad Lamarque; a Tampico oil-industry story that flopped commercially.
Gran Chaco (landform)
Gran Chaco (landform): vast semiarid lowland plain and dry forest, ~1.1 million km² across Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil; South America's second-largest forest and a global deforestation hotspot.
Gran Colombia
Gran Colombia (República de Colombia), 1819–1830: Bolívar's union of New Granada and Venezuela, constituted at Cúcuta in 1821, covering present Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama; dissolved by 1831.
Gran Colombia–Peru War
The Gran Colombia–Peru War (1828–1829): Peru versus Gran Colombia over Tumbes, Jaén, Maynas, and Guayaquil; Peruvian naval victories and Guayaquil's capture versus Sucre's land victory at Tarqui, ending in the 1829 Treaty of Guayaquil.
Gran Hermano (Argentine TV series) season 13
Gran Hermano: Generación Dorada, season 13 of the Argentine Big Brother series (Gran Hermano Argentina), is Telefe's 2026 edition marking the format's 25 years, with 28 contestants, host Santiago del Moro, and finalists Sol, Yipio, and Charlotte Caniggia.
Gran Hotel (TV series)
Gran Hotel (Grand Hotel) is a Spanish period mystery-romance series created by Ramón Campos and Gema R. Neira for Antena 3, airing 2011–2013 in 3 seasons and 39 episodes, starring Yon González and Amaia Salamanca, later remade in Mexico and on ABC.
Gran Humedal del Norte de Ciego de Ávila
Gran Humedal del Norte de Ciego de Ávila, a 226,875-ha coastal wetland in northern Ciego de Ávila province, central Cuba; Ramsar site 1235 (2002), IBA/KBA with 39 qualifying bird species, Lagunas de La Leche and La Redonda, and cays Cayo Coco, Guillermo, and Paredón.
Gran Pajatén Biosphere Reserve
Gran Pajatén Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Gran Pajatén), Peru's largest biosphere reserve at 2,509,698.84 ha, designated by UNESCO in 2016 across Amazonas, La Libertad, and San Martín, with Río Abiseo National Park as core zone and the Chachapoya Gran Pajatén fortress.
Gran Paradiso
Gran Paradiso, 4,061 m, highest peak of the Graian Alps in northwest Italy and the only 4,000 m peak entirely on Italian territory; first climbed in 1860, centerpiece of Italy's oldest national park (1922).
Gran Sasso d'Italia
Gran Sasso d'Italia: limestone massif in the Abruzzo Apennines, central Italy; Corno Grande (2,912 m) is the Apennines' highest peak, with Europe's southernmost glacier, Campo Imperatore plateau, and the LNGS underground lab beneath.
Gran Sasso raid
German glider-borne raid of 12 September 1943, codenamed Unternehmen Eiche (Operation Oak), led by Major Harald Mors under Kurt Student, freeing Benito Mussolini from the Hotel Campo Imperatore on Gran Sasso; Otto Skorzeny took the propaganda credit.
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona opera house on La Rambla founded 1837, inaugurated 1847, burned 1861 and 1994, reopened 1999; 2,292-seat La Scala-inspired hall; 2026/27 season themed (Des)sacralitzar opens with Neshat's Aida.
Gran Teatro de La Habana
Gran Teatro de La Habana, officially the Gran Teatro de La Habana "Alicia Alonso," is Cuba's principal opera house in Centro Habana, maintaining the 1838 Teatro Tacón auditorium.
Gran Telescopio Canarias
The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GranTeCan) is a 10.4 m optical and infrared telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, Spain, the world's largest since 2007.
Gran Tierra Energy Inc
Gran Tierra Energy Inc is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Calgary, with producing assets in Colombia, Canada, and Ecuador.
Gran Torino
Gran Torino is a 2008 American drama film directed by Clint Eastwood, who stars as Walt Kowalski, a prejudiced widowed Korean War veteran whose Hmong neighbors transform him.
Gran Turismo (film)
Gran Turismo is a 2023 biographical sports drama directed by Neill Blomkamp and starring Archie Madekwe, based on gamer Jann Mardenborough's journey from PlayStation to professional racing.
Gran Turismo (series)
Gran Turismo (グランツーリスモ) is Sony's PlayStation-exclusive racing simulation series by Polyphony Digital and Kazunori Yamauchi, first released in 1997, known as "The Real Driving Simulator," with over 50 million copies sold and Gran Turismo 7 as its latest mainline entry.
Gran Turismo 4
Gran Turismo 4 is a sim racing game developed by Polyphony Digital and released for the PlayStation 2 in December 2004, the fourth entry in the Gran Turismo series, with more than 700 cars.
Gran Turismo 5
Gran Turismo 5 (グランツーリスモ５) is Polyphony Digital's 2010 PlayStation 3 racing simulator, the fifth main Gran Turismo entry, with 1,031 cars (about 200 Premium), B-Spec, karts, Course Maker, Metacritic 84, and online service ended May 2014.
Gran Turismo 6
Gran Turismo 6 (GT6) is Polyphony Digital's racing simulator for PlayStation 3, released December 6, 2013, with over 1,200 cars, series-first weather and night-sky systems, and a Metacritic score of 81.
Gran Turismo 7
Gran Turismo 7 (グランツーリスモ７), Polyphony Digital's racing simulation for PS5 and PS4, released March 4, 2022; 420+ cars at launch, always-online controversy, GT Sophy AI, Spec updates, and 100-million-series sales.
Gran Turismo Sophy
Gran Turismo Sophy (GT Sophy) is a deep reinforcement learning racing agent developed by Sony AI, first released in Gran Turismo 7 on PlayStation 5 in 2023.
Gran Turismo Sport
Gran Turismo Sport: Polyphony Digital's 2017 PlayStation 4 racing simulator, the first built for FIA-sanctioned online competition via Sport Mode; 162 cars at launch, online services ended January 31, 2024.
Grana Padano
Grana Padano, Italian PDO hard cooked cheese from raw partly skimmed cow's milk in the Po valley; older sibling of Parmigiano Reggiano, min 9 months aging, lysozyme permitted, silage allowed.
Granada
Granada, Andalusian city in southeastern Spain, capital of its province; last Nasrid Muslim kingdom, fell 2 January 1492. Known for the Alhambra, Albaicín, tourism, and overtourism disputes.
Granada CF
Granada CF, also known as Granada Club de Fútbol, is a Spanish football club based in Granada, Andalusia, founded in 1931 and playing at the Estadio Nuevo Los Cármenes.
Granada massacre of 1066
The Granada massacre of 1066 (مذبحة غرناطة) was a riot in which a Muslim mob killed the Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and much of Granada's Jewish population.
Granada UNESCO Global Geopark
Granada UNESCO Global Geopark (Geoparque de Granada), designated 2020 in Andalusia, Spain: 4,722 km², 47 municipalities, Guadix-Baza basin badlands, Quaternary mammal fossils, cave houses, 73 geological interest sites.