Alcalá de Guadaíra

Alcalá de Guadaira is a Spanish city in the province of Seville, Andalusia.

Location

The city is located 15 km south-east of Seville, on the river Guadaira and at the end of Alcores, a survey on the plains of the Guadalquivir. Population: 73 876 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013).

History

Alcalá will probably have been settlement area in prehistoric times. Founded as a Roman fort, the great castle was built under the Almohads, from which the whole town gets its name (al- Qalat = arab. Burg ). As a key position for access to the city of Seville, the plant was expanded gradually become one of the largest in Andalusia. King Ferdinand III. could take the city and castle in 1246 without much fighting. Alcalá was the part of the Christian Reconquest Castile. The strategic importance of Alcalá for Sevilla stepped back behind the economic. Even in Arabic, several mills were operated by the river. The city provided the city with bread and was " Alcalá de los Panaderos " called (Alcalá of the bakers ).

Demographics

The population grew in recent years sharply.

Economy

The municipality of Alcalá is now one of the economically most active zones in Andalusia. One of the traditional olive oil and bread factories came since the 1960s all sorts of things to the way to tank production. Alcalá is the municipality in the province of Seville (maybe even in the whole of Andalucia ) with the highest energy consumption. The municipality has experienced tremendous economic growth over the last 15 years; which had a positive impact on the previously very high levels of unemployment and was accompanied by a systematic renovation and beautification of the old town. In Alcalá also the Albero is degraded, the orange - red sand, which is exported in bullrings around the world.

Life in Alcalá

Compared to the bustling city of Seville is pretty quiet in Alcalá. But it is also much cheaper. A few tapas you get in many bars; good restaurants and pastry shops are also available. With the Parque Oromana the river Guadaira Alcalá has a particularly beautiful recreation area, which already attracted a whole school of painters in the 19th century and is now again very well maintained - although the river is still heavily burdened by the olive oil production.

Attractions

The Castillo arab with his ring of fortifications and towers ( being restored for a short time and partly reconstructed ), the churches of Santa Maria del Àguila ( Castillo ), Santiago, San Sebastian (both 15-16. Century) and the Ermita de San Roque; Arab mills along the river Guadaira; the bridge of Charles III. ; the area Gandul with the necropolis.

Sports

2008, the three-band World Cup, a major carom tournament, held as a conclusion of the tournament series in the city was. The winner was the Dutchman Dick Jaspers, who beat the defending champion Torbjörn Blomdahl of Sweden in the finals 3-1.

Twinning

Emerging from a youth exchange, which began in 1990, a partnership agreement with the municipality in Lower Saxony Stuhr was signed in 1997.

Sons and daughters

• Fernando Pérez Royo ( born 1943 ), politician