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| In the left margen of the Guadiana, close to the bridge of the Autonomy and presiding at a rotunda, one finds this sculptural group, one of the beautiful mas of Badajoz. It represents the figures and works of three acquaintances poets of the city. Manuel Pacheco, Jesus Delgado Valhondo and Luís Álvarez Draper, that with his distant looks in the old man Anas, they seem to tack afanosamente new heaps and literary creations. |
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| In April, 1983, the Town hall of Badajoz, in name of his citizens, decided to raise a monument in memory of all the Illustrious Extremaduran, presided by a woman's image (work of the emeritense Juan de Ávalos) that raises a sword, on the keel of a ship. |
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Dos obras de corte moderno, originales de Rufino Mesa, se muestran a la entrada del Puente de la Universidad, frente al grupo que alude a Adelardo Covarsí. Fueron trasladadas a este lugar desde el paseo de San Francisco. |
Pedro de Alvarado was born in Badajoz and died in Guadalajara (New Spain) in 1541. It took part in the conquests of the Island of Cuba and in that of Mexico, to Hernán Cortés's orders. He was the great conqueror of Central America. His differences with Pizarro and I Colour with red ochre they excluded him from other conquests. His physical aspect, of high height and blond hair they cost a legend him between the aborigens. They considered him to be a reincarnation of one of his deities, managing to have descent with indigenous princesses. |
Close to the main face of the Church Salesiana and of the College Ramon Izquierdo, a small bust remembers the celebrated and easy-going figure of San Juan Bosco, founder of the Order Salesiana. |
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| Hernando of Soto was born in Barcarrota in the year 1500, having a life of permanent adventure. In Peru he practised as captain of Francisco Pizarro, lands wherefrom it returned with a considerable fortune. Using of her, it organized an expedition to The Florida, carrying out the conquest of this territory. In search of his individual El Dorado, there strolled for current Florida, the Carolinas and Alabama. The river discovered Mississippi and exceeded it, continuing up to the north of Texas. In 1542, when it was initiating his return to Spain on not having managed to reach his longed goal, it contracted a few malignant fevers that caused the death. His body, according to his desire, lies since then in the bed of the legendary river. |
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Adelardo Covarsí was born in Badajoz in 1885, choosing frequently for his works motives authors of novels of manners, such as the natural landscape of Extremaduran tierras, his peoples, and especially the topics related to the hunt and the hunts. Extensive horizons, intimate prominent figures, with late afternoons where the colors are diluted and intermingle, with a mastery that only he could stamp. His work crossed Spain and fruit of his tenacity, obtained in 1948 Honor de la Academia Nacional's Medal of San Fernando's Fine arts in 1948. His better works can astonish in our Provincial Museum of Fine arts, as well as in the lounges of Gredos's National Inn. |
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| Born in Almendralejo, it initiated his work to the early age of ten years. His sickly character, it did of her a delicate and romantic poetisa. It married in Madrid with an American diplomat. In his house it supported a literary gathering of revolutionary and progressive tone for those dates, reason for which his work was in certain way censured. Nevertheless diaries and magazines managed to publish part of this one. His countryman Jose de Espronceda was admiring her, him dedicating a few beautiful verses. Until 1843 it did not manage to publish his works, which in the successive years were re-edited and extending. Though his contemporary colleagues nicknamed her as " The feminine Becquer ", his work included equally the prose, including several novels and some plays. A sculpture presides at the center of Castelar's park, in a romantic setting, in agreement with his work and personality. |
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| Manuel de Godoy and Alvarez de Faria was born in his house of the current street Saint Lucia of Badajoz, on June 12, 1767 and died exiled in Paris in October, 1851. His career and influence develop of dizzy form: Colonel of Cavalry, Commander of Santiago, Big Field marshall, Duke of Alcudia, of Spain and General Lieutenant of the armies, already the year 1793 Was a prime minister of the king Carlos IV and artícife of the War of the Oranges, for which Spain recovered Olivenza's sobreanía and his demarcation. |
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| The City and the River is a sculptural original group of Juan de Ávalos, composed by two figures: a seated man, that The Guadiana and a woman represents to the river ergida, to the city of Badajoz. The set adorned with several spouts that highlight the figures, evokes the relation between the city of Badajoz and the river, which with his riverbed it kisses, fertilizes and protects the city from immemorial times. This beautiful sculptural group is placed in some of the rotundas of the Avenue Sinforiano Madroñero. |
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| The City of Badajoz sculpture is located at the entrance roundabout to the city from Portugal. It symbolizes the welcome of Badajoz to the Portuguese travelers, welcoming them with open arms, according to the traditional sense of hospitality that distinguishes this city, especially with the Portuguese neighbors. It is the work of Ricardo García, of Villanueva de la Serena. |
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Luis Chamizo, was a native of Guareña, where it came to the world in November, 1894. He graduated in Law in Madrid and moved to his village in some time. The singularity of his work resides in being written in his most in the speech "castúa". His " prime opera " is the Miajón de los Castúos.
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Lawyer, magnificent speaker and politician, Jose Moreno Nieto was born in Siruela in the year 1825 and died in Madrid in 1882. Attorney and Professor of the University of Granada, was a president of the Cultural club of Madrid. Militó in the progressive party, and later in the Liberal Union.In 1874 he was nominated A General manager of Instruction Public and Delegated to Spanish Parliament for Badajoz. Monument in bronze and marble, which is raised in Minayo's Plaza. |
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Ibn Marwan, apodado
"El Gallego", fue el fundó la ciudad en el año 875. Caudillo muladí, obtuvo permiso de Córdoba,
para levantar una nueva ciudad. Esta fué el feudo familiar y durante casi
toda su historia, se mantuvo prácticamente independiente, siendo la capital de la gran
Taifa de Badajoz.
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Thanks to the impulse and tenacity of the Civil Initiative Bastion and the execution of the monument on the part of the Town hall of Badajoz, our city tells from April 21, 2012, with an Obelisk honoring to all the victims so much civil as military men, that they suffered the warlike events of the Sites of Badajoz in the year 1811 and 1812 (War of the Independence).
The obelisk is in a paruqe placed together with the bastion of Santa Maria, just person under where the allies opened one to of the gaps that allowed the conquest of the city. In the base of the same one, paths figure plates with you them teach or distintibvos of Spain, United Kingdom, France and Portugal, in recollection of the armies who fought for the square. |
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On initiative of Carlos II, Juan Marín de Rodezno, inhabitant of La Rioja of origin, was named Bishopric of Badajoz, taking possession of his post in November, 1681. To it is necessary to between other numerous works of patronage, the current aspect of the High Plaza of the city that at the end of the 17th century encontaba in a lamentable condition of conservation. Being like that, Town hall asked for help to the bishopric to proceed to a deep local reform. They collaborated also in the work, besides the Bishopric and the Town hall, the Cathedral Chapter and Jesus' Company. The immediate beginning of the War with the neighboring kingdom of Portugal prevented that this one was remodelled in its entirety, remaining his current configuration from the death of the bishop enel year 1706.
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