FREGENAL DE LA SIERRA      

Placed in the spurs of Sierra Morena, to approximately 550 meters of altitude in the limits with Andalusia and surrounded with extensive and rich pastures where it grazes the Iberian pork, the population possesses(relies on) approximately 6.000 inhabitants and develops about your castle or fortress, which towers and walls draw the urban environment.

Your surroundings you rely on numerous archaeological deposits that they state the presence of the man from remote times. She formed during a time she departs from the Lusitania and she knew the raids of the commander Viriato.

Some historians identify her with Nertóbriga, which later belonged to the region Baetica with Romans and visigodos. For your situation, she belonged to the kingdom of gang of Seville and later she depended continued depending up to the modern epoch of that capital.

The city was conquered by the king of castilla and León I half-close 1240, being delivered by Alfonso X Wise to the order of the Temperature, depending on the Commission of Valencia - Sherry of the Gentlemen. In 1833 after the administrative reordering that concerned to Estremadura, it(he,she) began to form a part of your territory.

The urban hull has the consideration of historical Artistic Set and is replete with manors, palaces and churches of different epochs and architectural styles. The strength templaria from Fregenal distinguishes physics and monumentally from the urban set, has six towers of which that of the Honoring stands out, modified in the 18th century. The entry to the enclosure is effected by a stout door of chairs of granite, defended in your top part by a fort matacán.

Inside the enclosure, there was enabled at the end of the 18th century the Bullring, which for this circumstance is one of the most original of Spain. Close to the strength one finds the Major Plaza, the Parish of Neogothic style and the Town hall. In one of your sides part of the zone remains porticada that should have made a detour to this beautiful enclosure.

The Parishes of Santa Maria, Holy Catalina and Holy Ana, guard in your interior beautiful artistic exchequers. The Convents of San Francisco and of the Agustinas of the Peace, as well as the College and Church of the Jesuits, complete the rich religious patrimony of the city frexnense. In the surroundings of the villa one finds the Sanctuary of our Lady of the Remedies, where the traditional Gypsy Pilgrimage is celebrated anually.

 A walk rested by his narrow and white streets, they allow to observe a detailed catalogue of noble constructions from the Medievo, until the regional architecture of the XIXth century and beginning of the XXth.

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