Today, I should like to talk you about three special abandoned villages, in the Southern Spain: Las Algamitas, La Dehesilla de Algar and El Bercial. They are in the province of Cádiz.
The Algamitas, founded by the Túrdulos, an Iberian tribe based in the province of Cadiz. Although it appears that was initially a hostelry of passage for travelers, during Roman times, and already, in the Muslim period, is when several neighbors settled around, creating a village, calling it “Algameca”.
After the reconquest, King Henry IV granted this land to knight Mr. Rodrigo de Rivera, was later sold by the son, Mr. Pedro de Rivera, the Marquis of Cadiz, to Mr. Rodrigo Ponce de León, on September -23 -1482, for 4,000.000 of maravedíes, until the abolition of the 'jurisdictional lordships' of the nineteenth century, it made the queen Elizabeth II granted the Algámitas the 'title villa', on March - 27 - 1852.
However, in 1855, this amall village was alienated by a disentailment and sold, in 1874, at public auction, with a starting price of 9,215 pesetas, finally sold for 60,035 pesetas, to Mr. Francisco Suarez Márquez, a native of Algeciras and neighbor of Casas Viejas, finishing of pay as it did three times, in 1881. Since then, it is considered a private farm and currently belongs to the municipality of Medina Sidonia.
The second abandoned village is: Dehesilla de Algar. It is a village belonging to the municipality of Jerez de la Frontera and considered one of the rural districts of the city of Jerez. Now, virtually uninhabited, from which are only preserved a few remains of houses and stables for cattle farmers.
The Dehesilla de Algar is very near to the Arroyo de los Alamos (The Stream of Poplar).It is to the north of the village, Algar, although La Dehesilla belongs to Jerez de la Frontera.
Arroyo de los Alamos
The third abandoned village is: El Bercial, in Rota, which is now privately owned, with some simple remains of abandoned houses and warehouses.
I am sorry, but I have not found any image of the abandoned houses. I have onlyfound an image from the road to El Bercial.
Well, I hope that you have liked this article.
Until my next post, kind regards,
Luis.
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