Logrosán

Logrosán
Municipality
Flag Coat of arms
Logrosán Location in Spain
Coordinates: 39°20′14″N 5°29′32″W
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Extremadura
Province	Cáceres
Comarca	Las Villuercas
Founded	Tartessos
Government
• Alcalde	Juan Carlos Hernández Martinez (2015) (PSOE)
Area
• Total	365.3 km2 (141.0 sq mi)
Elevation	477 m (1,565 ft)
Population  (2018)
• Total	2,007
• Density	5.5/km2 (14/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Logrosano/a, Logrosaniego/a
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	10120
Website	Official website

Logrosán stele.

Logrosán (Spanish pronunciation: [loɣɾoˈsan]) is a municipality within the province of Cáceres in Extremadura, Spain. It is the capital of the administrative and commercial sub-area of Don Benito-Villanueva. Logrosán was an important community in the first half of the 20th century and was once home to over 8,000 inhabitants. Due to its large role in the mining industry during the 19th and 20th centuries, the area experienced a period of significant population growth.

Geography

Geographically, Logrosán is located in the south of the province of Caceres (Extremadura), at the base of Las Villuercas in the Montes de Toledo mountain range. The town sits on the base of a granite batholith called "Cerro de San Cristóbal", currently owned by the City Council of Logrosán, surfaced above the surface in the Quaternary. In addition to the batholith, ancient materials predominate, alternate between quartzites and slates that sometimes emerge above the ground, causing interesting Appalachian landscapes.

The Greenway of Las Vegas del Guadiana ends here.

Economy

Economically, it is a depressed locality, with a low level of productivity and rent is far below the average of the region. The over the primary and tertiary sectors predominate. Farms are extensive, of low productiveness both in profitability and in creation of jobs. Industry does not exist within this sector. The tertiary sector belongs especially to services of the administration, commerce and catering business. In spite of this poor situation, it can be considered to be the head of the region; fundamentally for being provided with certain regional services of the regional and educational administration, not for offering to the zone a point of commercial, sanitary reference not in no other aspect.

Monuments

CHAPEL OF THE VIRGIN OF CONSUELO: Place much venerated by the villagers where his cupulinas finished off with curious lanterns stand out. In them there is venerated the image of the Virgin of Consuelo, boss of the town. The place, in the top of a hill, offers to the visitor magnificent sights of his pasture royal and from where there can be counted more than thirty thousand holy oaks, which sight gets lost in the nearby province of Badajoz.

PARK OF THE ALCORNOCAL: Known as Los Alcornocales National Park is a small forest in the west comprising centenary cork oaks of several dozens of meters of height, since it is possible to observe in the low photo. In the 1970s it was turned into the principal municipal park of the locality. Today it lodges sports facilities, swimming pools, a children's park and the House of the Culture. It is a popular destination during the summer months.

THE GREEN ROUTE: An economic important effort and the passionate illusion of some persons as ancient mayor D. Manuel González, they have made possible the one that is the first tourist attraction of the locality and one of the most important natural footpaths between fields and pastures of Extremadura.

HILL OF ST. KITTS: It is the cradle of the town. There the first logrosanos lived thousands of years ago. There are many traces of the step of diverse cultures for the hill, but they are without excavation, without cataloguing, without investigating.

Other places of interest

The Helechal: The place where elderly women would wash clothing. Despite being a place of deep traditions and singular beauty, it is little appreciated today.

The Well Be quiet: The only local monument to the region's mining past.

The train station: A homage to the improvisation and the waste of the past, and to the abandonment and the apathy of the present (fed by the lack of organization between the Administrations). Today him prevee a promising future with the construction of the GREEN ROUTE, although the buildings of the same one are not going to suffer niguna improves for the time being.

The Roman Bridge: Despite its title, the Roman Bridge is not, in fact, Roman. It is a medieval construction, and this historical origin accurately characterizes the location as a whole.

Stately houses: The town is splashed with them, they are like an indelible memory of the region's past social structure: landowners and workers, of to count. The majority belong to wealthy families formerly, but today come at least. This explains the lamentable situation of ruin of many of these most beautiful houses, of artesonados and decorated roofs, stones staircases of grain, wide brokers and beautiful courts and corrals.

Costanaza mine: Which is part of the Minas de Logrosán project, that allows these spaces to be restored so that we can learn about the richness of mining heritage in this area, which has been mined since prehistoric times.

Notable people

• Mario Roso de Luna, theosophist and atheneites.
• Martín del Barco Centenera, poet and chronicler of the American conquest.

External links

• More information about Logrosán
• Visit Extremadura
• Google Maps Explore
• Long list of (interesting) municipalities in Spain, including Logrosán