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| Hellín
 Guest  2006/8/8 16:07
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Hellín is a municipality belonging to the county of Albacete (Spain), with 29.847 inhabitants (01-01 -2005). It is formed by the city of Hellín and the pedanías of Agra, Agramón, Cancarix, Cañada of Agra, Isso, The Mines, Minateda, The Fork, Mingogil, Dale of the Bell and Uchea.The most outstanding tradition is Tamboradas of Week Santa.The city of Hellín lives thinking during the whole year of its more important party. With the arrival of the Lent starting from Ash Wednesday, the population of the city goes increasing her enthusiasm she conforms to Preposition the night of Thursday Saint, moment summit of the Week Santa of Hellín, but you/he/she is not necessary to forget the tamboradas of Dolores' Friday, Wednesday Saint, Saturday Saint and the already mentioned of Thursday Saint.
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| Pozohondo
Guest 2008/11/20 11:23
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pozohondo is a town located 30 km of Albacete, it has a population that oscillates between 1800 and 1500 inhabitants.Their main activity is the agriculture, like one observes in the vast fields that surround it.Among their monuments it is necessary to highlight the church of Saint John the Baptist (in the image) of S.XVIII, the mount calvary with the hermitage and the mill, as well as their back streets full with the typical charm of the ams rural pure environment.
It celebrates their parties at the end of June (20 -25) in honor of Saint John the Baptist with blaze, confinements, races and the drone's dance. |
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| Almansa Castle
Guest 2006/8/8 16:08
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Almansa is a population of remote origins and one can affirm that in Muslim time it was already a town of certain importance. It is probable that toward 1241, year of occupation of Chinchilla, Almansa surrendered to the prince don Alfonso, in time of Fernando III. After diverse circumstances, as the whole area, he/she entered to be part of the infant's don dominion Manuel, and after their son don Juan Manuel who would grant numerous privileges and graces to this village, ratified by Castilian and even continuous different kings by the marquises of Villena, those of Aragon and Pacheco.In 1476, Almansa has already incorporated definitively to Reyes' Catholics Crown as other populations of the marquisate.
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| Caudete Source and Market
Guest 2006/8/8 16:00
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Archaeological locations of the neolithic time exist (vessels, utensils, etc...) and of Iberian time (Lady of Caudete, bull head, cierva of Caudete, funeral trail, etc...) that they are in the museums of Albacete and Villena. In the year 1992 in that that at the moment occupies the Neighborhood of the Real one he/she was a town íbero, near to the Castle. This town íbero is the true antecedent of current Caudete, although the economic bad situation of the town of that time didn't allow to reveal the light the and to maintain it, for that that now in the same place a street gets up of having embedded (Street of Miguel Martínez). Later it was a Roman town and Arabic. During the Muslim domain Caudete was formed to each other by six separate population nucleuses known later on as Als Capdets. The most important town was the one that was located in that that nowadays is the Neighborhood of Villa, where outstanding people of the time resided, and where he/she was the biggest Mosque and the Castle.
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| Town hall of Villarrobledo.
Guest 2006/8/8 16:03
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Villarrobledo is a municipality located to the northwest of the county of Albacete (Spain). It is in the middle of located heart of The Stain, the geographical biggest district in Spain, of some 26.000 km2 of almost perfect plain whose limits are the Mounts of Toledo, Sierra Moraine, Sierra of Alcaraz and Serranía of Cuenca, on the oriental half of the southern submeseta and in bench marks between the 600 and the 800 meters.Very well-known for their wines and cheeses with Denomination of Origin The Stain an important production derived siderometalúrgica of the old ceramic industry of tinajas elaboration also exists in this town. Villarrobledo possessed dozens of ovens potters and era the biggest producer and world exporter, having been able to elaborate the biggest tinaja in the history with a capacity of 750 you enrapture.It is the municipality with bigger surface of cultivated vine of the world (more than 30.000 have. that they house some 48.000.000 of stumps) as well as that of more world production of wine. In Villarrobledo they take place events like the Carnival, the Festival Vineyard Rock or the Week Santa.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villarrobledo |
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