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Data of the Town |
Yecla |
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Town |
Locality: Yecla |
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Municipality |
Yecla / Region: Plateau |
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Province |
Murcia |
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Community |
Murciana |
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Habt. / Ine 2004 |
33553 |
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Town hall |
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Direction |
Major square, s/n |
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ZIP code |
30510 |
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Phone |
968 751135 |
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Fax |
968 790712 |
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Office Tourism |
To contact with telf. quoted |
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Official web |
Yecla |
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Web of Interest |
Yecla history holidays culture tourism |
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E-mail municipality |
comunicacion@ayuntamientoyecla.com |
The municipal Yecla term has one 607,7 km extension ². It is placed in the end N of Region of Murcia, being a neighboring ground with the provinces of Albacete and Alicante. The domineering scenery it saws form of moderate altitude, with predominant directions SW-NE, which constitute the structural extension of the external areas of Andalusian mountain ranges (PreAndalusian), with folded style structures Jurassic and vergencia to the north. The principal Yecla elevations are the following ones:
Saw of Salinas: 1.238 m. (place named Chapel of the Friar).
Monte Arabí: 1.065 m.
Saw of Magdalen: 1.038 m.
Saw of the Pansas: 1.036 m.
Hill Picario: 1.035 m.
The Port: 1.030 m.
Most of mountains, which raise on the level of the soil to islands way, are more or less forestadas and separated for wide vales brokers, where the cultivation is located. principal natural vegetation is constituted by pine groves (Pinus halepensis), more or less dense; bushes form the rest- physiognomy esparto fields arbustiva and extensively extended. Them principal cultivation of the locality is a vine, olive tree, almond tree and cereal.
Yecla from the middle of the XIXth century is consolidated like a municipality agricultural, in particular wine.
To half of the XXth century a new sector signs up to the expansion of Yecla. The craftsmen coopers and carpenters overturn to industry of the furniture It is necessary to emphasize it Fair of the Furniture, first of the sector in Spain.
Monuments:
Basilica of The Purest or New Church
Church of the Asunción or Old Church
Chapel of the Castle
Church of San Francisco
Chapel of San Roque
Church of the Child Jesus
Church of Our Lady of the Pains, "Hospitalico
Town hall
Tower of the clock and Market
Palace of Ortega (House of Culture
Towns: Yecla, Stood out Above, Stood out Below, Raspay