THE CITY

With the passage of time, Badajoz spread to both margins of the river. Saint Roque and Saint Fernando were the first born slums outside of the capital. To middle the 20th century the city breaks, of the worst way, the limits of the fortification bastion, devastating glacis, pits, bastions and linens of walls.

His 150.000 habitants, occupy today new spaces, after a controversial urban ordination. The General Plan, being very controversial, is providing them with services and infrastructures, giving an image of modern, dynamic and different city. Your commercial life, the services that it offers and his offers of leisure, are together with the improvement of the communications, the incentives that they attract increasingly, a visitors' wide abundance.

Badajoz is outlined as the capital of the luso-spanish border. It was born with will to fill a geographical and strategic hollow, and along your history, turbulent and uncertain, survived dozens of sieges, muffling the effects that the history had caused in other geographical areas, managing to be reborn repeatedly of his ashes.

It has turned into a modern city, with vocation of service, which extends your influence, to a wide radius of 90 or 100 kilometres. The current and new tracings of highways, the future AVE Madrid - Lisbon, the Logistic International Platform, your Conference hall and your Fairground Enclosure, besides your great Casino, constitute a set of elements that will provide an expansion to him without precedents.

Resting on a wide and varied set of housings, stands out the incentive of your monuments mas representative (Arabic Fort and Fortification bastions), close to your parks, gardens and fountains. The cultural offer is headed by the varied one and you complete network of Museums and ithe complements himself with the meritorious labor of numerous cultural, public and private entities. The sports, both municipal and public facilities are for all the tastes and possibilities. Emphasize in this aspect the Great Casino Estremadura and the  Lusiberia Park, without forgetting your forceful activity in the sport, the leisure and the gastronomy.

  Antonio García Candelas        Suggestions and impressions

BADAJOZ