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Medinaceli Plaza Mayor
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| Medinaceli is a municipality and villa of the Soria province (Spain). It is the historical capital of the region of earth of Medinaceli, that at present has as main regional kernel to arcs of swig. The current |topónimo|, as so much other of the geography it hispanizes, adaptation of the original |topónimo| madī Arab;nat salīm: " the city of Salim " during the age it intercedes Medinaceli went |divisioria| frontier between Christian and |musulmanes|. Your labyrinthine streets are so tight that in some cases can blow your walls with the extended hands.Nail highest quality strategist magnitude during centuries, due to your situation in the confluence of the valley of the swig and the Arbujuelo valley. to your Arab citadel it looks as if wine to die, according to some authors, the great Almanzor caudillo the year 1002 , in path of withdrawal of the Calatañazor battle.Arab constructions live together with the Roman ruins, saline and the Arbujuelo valley.Medinaceli this, from the time of the Roman occupation, on a hill eastwards of the one which occupied the Occilis Celtiberian. During the Roman domination of Hispania, it is begun to exploit the salt mines in the valley ( the extraction of salt continued until 1994 ) and it is built in the villa the interesting Roman arc ( built between the I centuries and III d.c., it is the unique thing in Spain of three arcs ) and the font of the channel, whose excelent waters come of the same canalizations and whses of decanting that built the romen.http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/MedinaceliAutor Fernando laughed |
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