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Location: Almadén, Montes Sur, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
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JavierCR 🇪🇸
October 25, 2021
Hiking
World Heritage Site since 2012. Also called Plaza Nueva, whose construction was carried out between 1752 and 1754, it has a hexagonal shape and two stories high. It is made up of a single block, made up of twenty-four exterior homes, in whose interior courtyard the square itself was designed.
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•JavierCR 🇪🇸
November 28, 2025
Road cycling
A hexagonal shape, unique in the world.
A complex of 24 two-story houses surrounds the bullring, forming a single block.
Built between 1752 and 1765 at the initiative of Superintendent Francisco Javier de Villegas.
Purpose: to provide employment for miners during forced work stoppages and to raise funds for the Royal Miners' Hospital of San Rafael through bullfights and the rental of houses.
First bullfights: October 1752, with 21 bulls fought.
Declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 1979 and a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2012 as part of the "Mercury Heritage: Almadén and Idrija."
A complex of 24 two-story houses surrounds the bullring, forming a single block.
Built between 1752 and 1765 at the initiative of Superintendent Francisco Javier de Villegas.
Purpose: to provide employment for miners during forced work stoppages and to raise funds for the Royal Miners' Hospital of San Rafael through bullfights and the rental of houses.
First bullfights: October 1752, with 21 bulls fought.
Declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 1979 and a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2012 as part of the "Mercury Heritage: Almadén and Idrija."
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•TenaciousD
April 12, 2023
Road cycling
An old mining town, Almadén is located on the slopes of the Sierra Morena. The Almadén Mining Park has a nearby car park where you can start your cycling route.
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Location: Almadén, Montes Sur, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain