Town hall

Hormigos could mean "porridges" or "them thick parts that stay in the arnero on having sifted the wheat". "Formigos" is so much like "muffled up and sweetened crumbs". Of hormigos concrete comes .

At little distance of the Ist populate of Hormigos located the most ancient of The Fig tree of the Field, called like that for the existence of a leafy wild fig tree or of the field. For being a sickly place one is forming, at the beginning of the XVth century, new nucleus that takes the name of Hormigos. To him little by little the neighbors of The Fig tree go away moving. It is possible that the foundation of Hormigos should to the proximity of an important gully cattle and to two shallows in the Alberche; close to both accidents geographical the new hamlet happens. In the second half of the century XVI the Town is called a Hormigos and The Fig tree of the Field. The set urban is submitted to the ducal Escalona dominion; they depend, in ecclesiastic his two parishes, on the arciprestazgo of this town. It obtains the town title in 1749. At the end of the XVIIIth century it was following the chapel and the fig tree, but already in finished deserted place. the Town keep the sheets as remedy of his illnesses. (Fte.-Texto Delegation to see link)

Nuclei of Hormigos: Sotoalberche Fuenteromero, Sotoalberche, Source Rosemary