Almagro (Spain)

Almagro municipality
Plaza de Almagro
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile-La Mancha
Province :	Ciudad Real
Coordinates	38 ° 53 '  N , 3 ° 43'  W Coordinates: 38 ° 53 '  N , 3 ° 43'  W
Height :	646  msnm
Area :	249.73 km²
Residents :	8,896 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	35.62 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	13270
Municipality number  ( INE ):	13013
administration
Mayor :	Luis Maldonado Fernández de Tejada ( PP )
Website :	www.almagro.es/index.htm

Almagro , the old capital of Campo de Calatrava, a comarca , is about halfway between Madrid and Córdoba, 25 km east-southeast of Ciudad Real . It belongs to the Spanish province of Ciudad Real in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha .

Almagro is on the Autovia del IV Centenario .

Attractions

• Convento de la Asunción , former convent of the Calatrava order with a Renaissance cloister
• Almacén de los Fúcares , Fugger trading post from the 16th century
• Corral de Comedias , 17th century theater, the scene of regular international theater festivals

The old town of Almagro was classified as a Conjunto histórico-artístico in 1972 .

Military airfield

Outside the town in the northern area of ​​Caserio El Campazo there is a smaller military airfield of the Spanish Army Aviation ( Fuerzas Aeromóviles del Ejército de Tierra , FAMET), the base Almagro . Almagro is the home base of the Spanish Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopters of the Batallón de Helicópteros de Ataque núm. I (BHELA I).

Daughters and sons of the church

• Manuel Sanroma (1977–1999), racing cyclist
• Diego de Almagro (around 1479–1538), adventurer and conquistador

Web links

Commons : Almagro  - collection of images

• City administration website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
2. ↑ http://www.almagromonumental.com/corral-de-comedias.html
3. ^ Database Patrimonio cultural