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Monsalud Palace

Monsalud Palace, located in the town of Almendralejo, was built in 1752 and he was born of the Romantic poet Jose de Espronceda. The building occupies a large corner forming solar, has three floors which open several lintels vain. The main door jambs and lintel of marble and above it a balcony decorated with baroque motifs with scrolls, acanthus leaves, an angel, two eagles, two lions rampant and a cross on the top emerging.The building topped by a continuous frieze that runs along the top with metopes and triglyphs and a cornice with modillions marked, in the corners are reinforced with blocks of granite that ennoble the facade, also highlight the railings around the building, but without doubt the most characteristic of this palace are their shields corners.

Church of Our Lady of the Purification

The parish church of Our Lady of the Purification located in the city of Almendralejo began to build on a previous one in 1494 and its construction lasted until 1515, although he must undergo several reforms since then until 1539, which is as it is now.Style Gothic, with a beautiful tower Herrera style and baroque details, Plateresque and Elizabethan and beautiful covers Gothic Renaissance of epigraphic and profuse ornamentation Plateresque in which abound in the public interest, such as the lute carver crown one of them. Filigree brackets enrich the apse.

Parish of San Roque

The hermitage of San Roque was closed to worship due to their poor condition around 1835 and the image of the pattern of the town moved to the chapel of San Cristobal. San Roque was named patron of the town in the sixteenth century because people went through great calamities because of the plague and instructed the attorney for the Santo plague. But the chapel of San Cristobal was also closed to worship in the late nineteenth and the size of San Roque was the chapel of 1945, the Town Council Piedad.Hacia capillaauxiliar projected in Siler of St. Roch and a school group to the new neighborhood that grew in the place.

Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy

A beautiful, landscaped park in which we find also the "Nursing Home" and "Hospital" and extending in front of the chapel causing one of the most interesting and moving lights of the city. The chapel was built in the early sixteenth century and refurbished XVIII.Cabe highlight the magnificent baroque altarpiece of the altar. Of the remaining chapels that existed in the town only endures, in addition to this James. Recently opened and attractive architecture based on traditional models, is San Marcos that has been built to replace another long time ace

Museum of Wine

Sponsored by the Network of Museums of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Junta de Extremadura, in very close collaboration with the Hon. Almendralejo City Council, the Science Museum of wine opened on April 3, 2009 to form part of the "Museums of Identity"
Housed in the old "Alcohol Extremadura" rehabilitation has maintained its original structure, respecting the chimney remains as a silent witness Almendralejo Industrial Heritage.

City Library

On 21 October 1946 a group of outstanding individuals from the cultural, chaired by the Mayor D. Thomas de la Hera, decided to create the Municipal Library of Carr. It opened the following year, naming Mark Suarez Morillo Municipal Library and resuming the tradition established in 1900.

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