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| Aracena
 informacion  Huelva  2006/8/9 10:38
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Aracena is a municipality of the county of Huelva, Andalusia, Spain. With a population of 7.152 inhabitants (2005) and a surface of 184 km², has a density of 37,1 hab / km². The city of Aracena is in Sierra of Aracena that is part of Sierra Moraine. It is head of judicial Party of the same name.
The municipality is compound for the urban main nucleus and the villages of Coal, Castañuelo, Corterrangel, Jabuguillo, Umbria and Valdezufre.
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| Moguer Convent of Santa Clara
informacion Huelva 2006/8/9 10:37
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Moguer is a town of the county of Huelva, Andalusia, Spain. In the year 2005 had 16961 inhabitants. Their superficial extension is of 204 km² and he/she has a density of 83,1 hab / km². Their geographical cordenadas is 37º 16' N, 6º 50' OR. it is located to an altitude of 51 meters and 20 kilometers of the county capital, Huelva..-Convent of Sacred Clara: it was founded in 1337 by Alonso Jofre Tenorio, first gentleman of Moguer, for nuns clarisas. The group of constructions that you/they form the monastery is classified as National Monument from 1931, and he/she is considered the main exponent of the art in the whole privincia onubense.
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| Castle of Loarre
informacion Huesca 2006/8/8 16:29
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The castle of Loarre is a castle románico located on the mountain of Loarre, Spain (to some 35 kilometers of Huesca). From their position one has a control on the whole plain of the Valley of Huesca and in particular on he/she Bowls, Muslim main square of the area and that it controlled the agricultural rich lands of the plain.The castle settles on a promontory of calcareous rock that uses as foundations. This supposed a defensive great advantage, since this way the walls could not be mined (habitual technique in the blockade of strengths that consisted on building a tunnel below the wall stops later to sink it and to make this way a way for the one that to assault). It is also surrounded by a wall with turrets.The castle is in quite good conservation (except for the part of the old castle of Sancho III, a lot but deteriorated) state and it is considered as the conserved strength better románica of Europe. The small chapel that there are to the entrance (with an incredible acoustics) and the majestic church of the castle (of the one that unfortunately the whereabouts of the paintings romanicas is ignored) in which calls the attention the dome (for the not very habitual thing that is in the románico) highlights.It was built in the XI century by the king's order Sancho III, to serve as advance party from the one that to organize the attacks against he/she Bowls. The initial construction was enlarged later on the one that we know nowadays during the reign of Sancho RamÃrez under whose reign you proceeded to the foundation of a monastery in this castle.During the XII century the area stops to be border and the castle loses its initial function of advance party against the Muslim lands.In the XV century, the population that lived to the feet of the castle moves to the current village of Loarre, material reutilizando of the strength.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_Loarre
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| Map of Asturias
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| Coast of Almeria
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