Fuente Carrasca is a town in the municipality of
Molinicos, Albacete, Spain, within the
Sierra del Segura
Sierra de Segura is a mountain range of the Prebaetic System in the Jaén Province in Spain. It is named after the ancient town of Segura de la Sierra and it gives its name to the Segura River. Its highest point is the 1,993 m high Las Banderil ...
region, and the Autonomous Community of
Castilla-La Mancha. It is located at 1060 meters above sea level, and 6 km from the head of the municipality through a local road, which starts from the provincial highway
AB-510.
The town has a past linked to livestock and agriculture, proof of this are the large fields of almond trees that are located at its feet. Fuente Carrasca is located in an area of steep slopes that tilt in its western area, and decrease from east to west.
Pascual Madoz
Pascual Madoz Ibáñez (May 17, 1806 – December 13, 1870), Spanish politician, statistician, was born at Pamplona.
Biography
In early life Madoz was settled in Barcelona, as a writer and journalist. He envisioned the construction of the ...
cites it in his "Geographical-statistical-historical dictionary of Spain and its overseas possessions" in 1849.
Pascual Madoz already published data on Fuente Carrasca in 1849: "
Cortijada with 4 houses in the province of Albacete, judicial district of
Yeste and jurisdictional term of Aina."The population sits to the east of a very pronounced hill, just at the foot of its slope, where the entrance road serves to distribute the buildings that give it a clear linear shape as a result. One of the streets with south-north direction, acts as the main axis dividing the houses in two. To the east are most of the buildings and to the west some new ones."
Fuente Carrasca has in its vicinity, with one of the largest mounts in the entire municipality, and of which there is already news of its use in the year 1863, when a commission was created for its demarcation.
The town has a small church dedicated to the
Assumption of the Virgin
The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Catholic_Mariology#Dogmatic_teachings, Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII defined it in 1950 in his apostolic constitution ''Munificentissimus Deus'' as follows:
We proclaim and d ...
, patron saint of Fuente Carrasca.
In 1930, the creation of an access road to the town was requested, coming from the Village of
Pinilla to avoid the traditional isolationism of its citizens, and another to communicate it from
Los Alejos, with the neighboring town of Ayna.
References
Populated places in the Province of Albacete
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