Castle of Castellar de la Frontera (Cadiz, Spain), Condal Palace and some villas . The castle is also named Castellar Viejo, where today we have been 9 urban designers of Urban Sketchers del Campo de Gibraltar and a photographer (all record). This castle occupies a privileged position on a hill del Campo of Gibraltar. From there is possible to see the Rock of Gibraltar, the African coast, the most western mountains of Malaga and part of the forest and the people of the Park of Alcoronocales including the new Castellar This caused it to be inhabited since ancient times. The castle has a Muslim origin and it there is an authentic Andalusian village. As the name Frontera (Border) suggests was the subject of fighting between Christians and Muslims and suffered several changes of ownership in the centuries-long struggle. And sometimes the kings of Granada gave him as payment to benimeries or meriníes (Moroccan Berbers) for their support in the war. The family of his Christian conqueror received the title of Count of Castellar and was this the one that built the fabulous fort you see in the picture. Subsequently, the county step as one more title to the Dukes of Medina who came to have private railway halt to his farm in the Almoraima. The construction of a dam in 1960 forced to build a new village and expropriate part of the estate of Almoraima in its time the largest farm in Europe. In 1980 Felipe González (later President of the Spanish Government) intervened directly for the recovery of the estate of El Boyal for the people for which he was named adoptive son. The day of recovery, February 15, is a bank holiday in Castellar.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 23:28:23 +0000
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