PUEBLA DE GUZMÁN   PUEBLA DE GUZMÁN
 
 

These first inhabitants employed themselves Sta. Barbara with the harvest in the mining how one can recognize it by the ironworks and grassland still nowadays. The left behind wealth of the mine is reduced again from end of the XIX century. The luxuriant occurrence of manganese, copper and Pyrite, evened out the needy profit in the agriculture and provided for the originating of new settlements. With renewed shut down of the mining, one looks for alternatives in the industrial area and in the irrigation of farmland. An important innovation is the plantation of flowers, with which the interest group SCA-Andévalo Flor was established.

   

In the cattle-raising, particularly the sheep and pig breeding accentuates. From the plantations with eucalyptus, as well as for the cosmetic one also like for the pharmaceutical industry, essences from the plants are won. Distilleries to the anise manufacture, desiccation installations for hams, hunt precincts for small - and big game also is represented. The architectural variety is diverse and extensive in the Puebla.

   

In the community of Guzmán, the Catholic church of the sacred cross's Santa Cruz rises, from the beginnings of the XVI - century forth, since she was set on basic remains of the castle Alfayat, with a tower built in the style of the baroque, that were decorated with tiles. In the inside, one cans the spotless of Alonso Cano of the XVII - century admires. Approximately 4 km. remove, on the summit of a rise, the pilgrim place of the Virgen de la peña (saints of the circle of friends) is from the XV - century, that one on rests, through the before prevailing Moslems built fort, established became.

On the eagle hill, a natural overlook, from which one has a view on the superb scene with antique windmills. Completely, there is another overlook in the proximity, from which one in clear weather, as far as to the sea can look.



  
  
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