Places to see in ( Cantabria - Spain ) Comillas
Places to see in ( Cantabria - Spain ) Comillas
Comillas is a small township and municipality in the northern reaches of Spain, in the autonomous community of Cantabria. The Marquisate of Comillas, a fiefdom of Spanish nobility, holds ceremonial office in the seat of power at a small castle which overlooks the town.
The Comillas Pontifical University was housed here before it moved to Madrid, and the old university buildings are among the finest examples of architecture in the town. Besides this, there are many notable medieval and baroque buildings. Comillas was the capital of Spain for a day, the 6th of August 1881, following an agreement between king Alfonso XII and the Minister's Council to gather at a formal meeting in town.
Comillas was first inhabited in prehistoric times when the caverns that are plentiful in the area were used as shelters. The Neolithic inhabitants left behind them rock paintings that depicted the animals they hunted. Magdalenian and Bronze Age artefacts have been found in nearby Ruiseñada, and there was an ancient mine at La Molina in which utensils and Roman coins have been found as well as an altar dedicated to the god Jupiter. Arrowheads have also been found here. On the border between Comillas and Ruiloba, heaps of shells have been found showing that the ancient people, besides hunting, specialised in collecting food from the sea.
The remains of the medieval castle of Peña del Castillo are still visible and another castle later occupied the same strategic site. The earliest documents relating to the town date to the eleventh century, although most of them were destroyed later in a fire at the town hall. Garcilaso de la Vega built a tower on the coast to demonstrate the towns dominance in maritime affairs. After the conclusion of the Valles Lawsuit against the Duke of Infantado in 1581, Comillas became part of the Province of Nine Valleys, a judicial and administrative body. Historically, the town was one of four towns making up the Alfoz of Lloredo. The town is sometimes known as the Town of the Bishops, because five priests who were born here went on to become bishops in several different dioceses during the Middle Ages.
Early in the twentieth century, the first marquis Antonio López y López invited King Alfonso XII to his mansion at Comillas and the town became popular with the aristocracy; the architect Joan Martorell built the enormous Palacio de Sobrellano on the instructions of the marquis.
Comillas is situated close to the coast in the autonomous community of Cantabria. To the north lies the Bay of Biscay and to the south the Cantabrian Mountains which run parallel with the coast, the highest point of which is the Torre de Cerredo, 2,648 metres (8,688 ft). Santander lies fifty kilometres to the east. There is a sandy beach and headlands and the town is set a little way back from the sea.
The Plaza del Corro de Campios, in the centre of the oldest part of the town, is surrounded by ancestral mansions with shields on the walls depicting the noble families who lived there. The town hall and the seventeenth century parish church of San Cristóbal are nearby, and there are some interesting mausoleums in the cemetery. The Neo-Gothic university buildings overlook the town. The Art Nouveau buildings are some of the finest in Cantabria and include the Sobrellano Palace Chapel, the Pantheon, and El Capricho, a fantastic creation by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí.
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Places to see in ( Castile La Mancha - Spain ) Riopar
Places to see in ( Castile La Mancha - Spain ) Riopar
Riópar is a Spanish municipality in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula , in the province of Albacete , within the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha . It is located in the region of the Sierra de Alcaraz . It is located 118 km from the provincial capital. In 2016 it had 1,410 inhabitants, according to the official data of the INE . It is integrated into the Sierra de Segura commonwealth of services .
In the vicinity you can find the Chorros del Río Mundo , birthplace of the homonymous river, which in the rainy season forms spectacular waterfalls, true explosions of water and light, known in the area as the blowout . The area is integrated into the Natural Park of the Calares del Río Mundo and the Sima .
Along with the towns of Villapalacios , Bienservida , Villaverde de Guadalimar and Cotillas , it was part of the Señorío de las Cinco Villas , historical sub-county within the extensive Alfoz de Alcaraz , which belonged to the Marquesado de Villena . The marquisate was annexed by the Catholic Monarchs in the Crown of Castile , within the Kingdom of Murcia .
The municipality includes a historic-cultural center, the current hamlet of Riópar Viejo, the old Rivus Oppae (or river of the fox), which was the medieval village, now restored, located a few kilometers west of the modern Riopar. And the current Riópar, with the old name of the Royal Bronze and Brass Factories of San Juan de Riópar , which comes from a colonization project of the eighteenth century , due to the establishment of real mining and factory workers who settled in this place, in the time of Carlos III .
The main economic activity of the municipality is rural tourism , with an elaborate infrastructure of catering establishments, composed of more than 50 of them. About 25 restaurants where you can taste the delicious dishes of the local gastronomy and many rural lodgings, both in the main municipality and in all its municipal area. The hotel offer is completed by a 3 star hotel with spa .
Its main tourist attractions are the Natural Park of the Calares del Río Mundo and the Sima in the same locality, the natural landscape that the mountain range offers and the proximity of the artistic and monumental town of Alcaraz .
The economy was driven in the past by metallurgy, based on a local mining of calamine to obtain zinc and copper for brass and bronze foundries in the El Laminador ironworks. This industry dates from 1772 when, by authorization of King Carlos III to the Austrian engineer (nationalized Spanish) Juan Jorge Graubner , the construction and facilities of a factory for the manufacture of brass, known as the Royal Bronze and Brass Factories of San Juan de Riópar.
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