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The Extremaduran Alburquerque town is placed to the northwest of the province of Badajoz, very next to Portugal, where from grounds of this country are seen. His population current is in approximately 5.600 inhabitants, whom he is called alburquerqueños. It is distant 45 km from the provincial capital. It is nailed in the so called region of The Common lands, being his principal nucleus. His extensive municipal term (72.000 There is). it is formed by mountain areas and others of more flat relief, of big pastures of holm oaks and of moorlands desforestados for the cultivation, of rivers and creeks with variable wealths, according to the seasons. One the so called Common lands are a peculiarity of this municipality of Alburquerque, rich converted into pasture grounds, of communal property, administered by the Town hall
It preserves a rich historical legacy, fundamentally of the Age It comes up, although archaeological studies date his origin in Arab epoch, and even previous, in the years of the Roman domination of Hispania. But the most typical monuments that survive are them raised in the Middle Age: this way, his historical helmet is crowned by the unassailable castle of Moon (the condestable D. Álvaro of Moon was one of his owners); there exists a wall that surrounds in his most the quarter Gothic - Jew, called a Town I penetrate, and in he they survive between his alleys, numerous houses with lintels ogival, some of them with elements that denounce the Jewish origin of his inhabitants before the expulsion of 1492.
The Alburquerque history has always been tied to the wars with Portugal, therefore his population, in the antiquity, was submitted to the swaying of the successive contests, crossing despoblamientos periods, because the grounds were staying devastated, the enlisted males and to a great extent fallen down in you battle. Nevertheless, with the course of the years, on having recovered it calmness, they could get over, and with new repoblamientos it was establishing a strengthened stable community. In the epoch of colonization of America, many alburquerqueños there were, with different luck: them there was that they perished in that company, others, on the other hand, they returned enriched.
The Alburquerque economy is based principally on the cattle, with his big municipal term (as it has been said earlier) that favors it. The cattle, sheep and porcine, in his Iberian race, there are his economic props. The pig, so much in the production as manufacture of his meats, with several factories of treated and sausages, good benefits cause in it to the municipality. In the last ones years, also small-scale enterprises are creating of very varied order (manufacture of the cork, bicycles, jewelry shop, solar energy, etc), which generate important labor.
The principal holidays that are celebrated in Alburquerque they are her Pilgrimage of the Virgin of Carrión, with a massive rural meeting in the evening of September 7, and the mass and procession in the following one tomorrow of 8.
Recalling his medieval past, it is celebrated every year, in the month of I wither, the Medieval Festival Town of Alburquerque, recreating with works of theater, street bands, tournaments, covens, cars of faith, between others, the life of that epoch. |
