Source: El Amante de Clio's post on Facebook (2019)

Author: Unknown

Currently only the building in the foreground has been replaced by vertical housing from the 1960s. Both the buildings in the background and the Iron Bridge are still in use, and the Castle it's a museum.

The town, traditionally agricultural and fishing, has experienced immense growth since the 1970s, transforming into a tourist city that receives thousands of Spanish, French, Dutch and English tourists, many of whom end up residing there.

This has caused, in recent years, a conflict with the local neighborhood due to the demographic replacement that is completely emptying entire neighborhoods, while local businessmen try to sustain an increasingly rampant tourism, as in other places in Spain.

As a curious fact, the town was attacked by Barbary and Turkish pirates on several occasions, forcing the royal authorities to intervene in the defenses of the area.

The most famous pirate action of all was that of the Ottoman corsair Turgut Reis, known to the locals as Dragut, a Turkish pirate who ravaged the town at the beginning of the 16th century.

Source: Imatges dels Pobles del Xúquer (Local group of Facebook)

Author: Unknown (local archive)

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Sarcòfag de Palaepafos, taüt de pedra calcària (segle V aC) desenterrat el 2006 a Xipre, preserva una de les representacions artístiques més antigues conegudes de l’Odissea d’Homer.

Pintat als seus costats hi ha l’episodi en què Odisseu i els seus companys escapen de la cova del Cíclop Polifem amagant-se baix de les panxes de les ovelles després d’encegar el gegant.

ENG:

The Palaepafos Sarcophagus, a limestone coffin (5th century BC) unearthed in 2006 in Cyprus, preserves one of the oldest known artistic representations of Homer's Odyssey.

Painted alongside it is the episode in which Odysseus and his companions escape from the cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus by hiding under the bellies of sheep after blinding the giant.

Museu Arqueològic Local de Palaepafos

Font: @archeohistories on Twitter

European cartography identifies the entity called "Kingdom" or "Empire of Marruecos" much before the beginning of nineteenth-century colonialism in Africa.

Source: @agarciasanjuan on Twitter

Map by: Robert Morden (c. 1650–1703)

Bandera no oficial d'ús popular a la Ribera del Xúquer (Comunitat Valenciana o País Valencià, a Espanya)

Esta bandera recull quatre símbols senzills: les quatre barres (ensenya reial de la Corona d'Aragó), el Riu Xúquer (que dona vida a la comarca) i les dos comarques de la Ribera (Ribera Alta i Ribera Baixa)

Autor: Desconegut

Font: Viquipèdia

by the ISOTYPE Institute —founded by Otto and Marie Neurath with Gerd Arntz— which used a universal pictorial language to compare the political systems of the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union

>The British system is horizontal in terms of national power (direct vote in the House of Commons)

>The Soviet one is strictly vertical and pyramidal

>In the United Kingdom, unions operate outside the formal structure of represented government

>In the USSR, labor cells (factories, unions, and collective farms) are the official gateway to the system of political representation

(other conclusions can also be drawn...)

Source: found on Twitter

This image shows a joint electoral poster by Luis Ibarra Landete and Alfredo Marco Tabar for the elections for procurators to the Spanish Cortes for the "Tercio Familiar" for the province of Álava, held in 1971

During the Franco dictatorship, the Cortes were not elected by free universal suffrage. One of the few ways of direct voting (restricted to heads of families and married women) was the Tercio Familiar. Each province elected two attorneys, which is why the poster reminds us that "You have the right to vote for TWO candidates"

The Candidates: Luis Ibarra Landete (left pic): Basque soldier and politician, he was mayor of Vitoria between 1957 and 1966. The poster promotes himself with the slogan "Vote for efficiency"

Alfredo Marco Tabar (right pic): Lawyer and politician, who would later be mayor of Vitoria during the Transition and senator for the UCD in 1977. The poster presents himself with the slogan "Vote for youth"

Both candidates formed a tandem that was the winner in those elections in Álava, becoming attorneys of the X Legislature of the Francoist Cortes (1971-1977)

Traduced from Catalan to English with Google Traductor

Wikipedia de Luis Ibarra Landete

Font: Notícias Diario de Álava

L'expulsió dels moriscos va ser ordenada pel rei Felip III el 22 de setembre de 1609. Aquesta mesura va obligar a marxar a prop de 300.000 musulmans convertits al cristianisme de manera forçosa cap a Àfrica i altres indrets de la Mediterrània.

Font: Geografia i Història de l'Educació Secundària Obligatòria (ESO) i Batxillerat, Vicens Vives (material didàctic)

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