El Palmar is a village and the most populated district in

Murcia Murcia (, , ) is a city in south-eastern Spain, the capital and most populous city of the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia, and the seventh largest city in the country. It has a population of 460,349 inhabitants in 2021 (about one ...

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. It is part of the municipality of

. 24,266 people resided in the territory in 2020. There are two hypotheses about the district name. According to the first one, the name is due to the presence of palm trees and European fan palms. The other hypothesis consists in ''El Palomar'' phrase, which appears in historic documents of the 16th century, as the origin of the toponym.

Geography

This territory is located in the foothill of the mountain pass Puerto de la Cadena. There is distance of 5 km from El Palmar to the capital of the municipality (the city of Murcia).

History

There is evidence about the Roman presence in this territory in the Roman Hispanian era. The evidence consists in archaeological remains of a Roman hamlet whose date is the 2nd century BC. During the

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...

a castle named La Asomada was built in the 12th century. There was an increase in the population in the 17th century. As a consequence, the locality obtained the status of the ''villa''. As the

Spanish Constitution of 1812 The Political Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy ( es, link=no, Constitución Política de la Monarquía Española), also known as the Constitution of Cádiz ( es, link=no, Constitución de Cádiz) and as ''La Pepa'', was the first Constituti ...

came into effect, the current district obtained the own municipality. When the king

Ferdinand VII , house = Bourbon-Anjou , father = Charles IV of Spain , mother = Maria Luisa of Parma , birth_date = 14 October 1784 , birth_place = El Escorial, Spain , death_date = , death_place = Madrid, Spain , burial_plac ...

recovered the crown, the independence was removed. The district recovered the own municipality during the Trienio Liberal (1820–1823). When the period ended El Palmar started to belong to Murcia again.

Demographics

18.22% inhabitants are foreigners – 1.72% come from another European country, 13.72% are Africans, 2.3% are Americans, and 0.47% are Asians. The table below shows the population trends of the territory. Fachada Teatro Bernal

Main sights

* La Asomada castle: it consists in ruins of a former castle. It was probably built in the 12th century. * Los Bernal modernist building: it was built in the early 20th century. * Bernal Theatre: it was constructed in 1910 and restored in 2003.

Notable people

Carlos Alcaraz Carlos Alcaraz Garfia (born 5 May 2003) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is currently ranked as the world No. 1 singles player by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Alcaraz has won six ATP Tour singles titles, including ...

(b. 2003) – professional

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player

References

Murcia Populated places in the Region of Murcia {{Murcia-geo-stub