Casas Viejas is a city located in the province of

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, Spain. According to the 2005

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, the city has a population of 6,754 inhabitants. Casas Viejas is located in the ''

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''.

Main sights

* Cueva del Tajo de las Figuras *Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Socorro

Economy

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* Rural tourism

Benalup-Casas Viejas revolution

The anarchist movement which spread across Spain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was based on the ideas of Bakunin and propagated by

Giuseppi Fanelli Giuseppe Fanelli (13 October 1827 – 5 January 1877) was an Italian revolutionary anarchist, best known for his tour of Spain 1868, introducing the anarchist ideas of Mikhail Bakunin. Life and revolutionary path Fanelli was born in Naples, I ...

. It urged oppressed workers to unite and organize against their oppressors, namely the State, the

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landowners, and the Church. It quickly took a hold amongst the long-exploited agricultural workers in

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, who joined the CNT union or the more radical FAI and had some limited success in improving wages and working conditions. The establishment's attempts to stamp out such revolutionary zeal came to a tragic head in 1933 at Casas Viejas, now Benalup-Casas Viejas, in the Province of Cadiz. A small group of militants trying to resist arrest after a failed uprising barricaded themselves in a cottage, which was burned down with the anarchists and their families still inside. Soldiers and police then arrested anyone in the village who possessed a gun, marched them to the smoking ashes of the cottage and their dead colleagues, and shot them in the back. The massacre led to national outrage and there was considerable debate about whether the orders to kill had or had not been issued by the President of the

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, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora. This was never proven, but it is believed to have contributed to his defeat in the following general election.

Twin towns

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, Spain

References

External links

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Casas Viejas
- Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía
Municipalities of the Province of Cádiz {{Andalusia-geo-stub