Talavera la Nueva is an ("administrative territorial entity below municipality") belonging to the municipality of

Talavera de la Reina Talavera de la Reina () is a city and municipality of Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. Its population of 83,303 makes it the second most populated municipality of the province of Toledo and the fourth largest in th ...

, Spain.

History

Located 5 km away from the city proper of Talavera de la Reina, it was founded by the

Instituto Nacional de Colonización The Instituto Nacional de Colonización y Desarrollo Rural, en, National Institute of Rural Development and Colonization, was the administrative entity that was established by the Spanish State in October 1939, shortly after the end of the Span ...

(INC) during the

Francoist dictatorship Francoist Spain ( es, España franquista), or the Francoist dictatorship (), was the period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death in 1975, Sp ...

as a planned settlement oriented to

cattle Cattle (''Bos taurus'') are large, domesticated, cloven-hooved, herbivores. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus ''Bos''. Adult females are referred to as cows and adult mal ...

farming. It was formally inaugurated on 5 October 1956 by the dictator, although colonizers already dwelled in the settlement since at least 2 or 3 years before the ceremony.

Archeological site

The archeological site of the Roman Villa of El Saucedo is located in the area. A largely intact ''

verraco The ''verracos'' ( es, verraco; pt, berrão; literally 'boar'), in the Iberian Peninsula, are the Vettones's granite megalithic monuments, sculptures of animals as found in the west of the Iberian '' meseta'' – the high central plain of the ...

'' was found in the former.

References

Talavera de la Reina Populated places in the Province of Toledo {{CastillaLaMancha-geo-stub