Alameda is a town and municipality in the province of
Málaga, part of the autonomous community of
Andalusia
Andalusia (, ; es, Andalucía ) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous community in the country. It is officially recognised as a "historical nationality". The t ...
in southern
Spain
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. The municipality is situated approximately 85 km from the city of Málaga. It has a population of approximately 5,000 and the natives are called Alamedanos or Lametanos. It takes its name from the stream Álamos, which crosses the municipality. The Bandito "El Tempranillo" is buried here.
It is located north of Antequera and 430 meters above sea level. The average annual precipitation is in the 610 L/m
2 and the average temperature is 16 °C.
Almadea has an area of about 65 km
2.
Geography
The municipality of Alameda, the northernmost province of Malaga, lies on a plain in which only a few small hills break the horizontal landscape which is abound with olives. This befits an area close to the countryside of
Cordoba and
Seville
Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...
.
History
The archaeological remains found in this area show that since the Neolithic period the area, now the municipality, has been the basis for many human settlements.
In 208 B.C., during the times of
Carthage
Carthage was the capital city of Ancient Carthage, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the cla ...
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Iberian inhabitants of the area, to be besieged by the Romans, set fire to the village and perished in said fire to remain loyal to the Carthaginians.
During the Roman Empire it is known that Alameda was an enclave of strategic importance because three of the major roads to
Baetica
Hispania Baetica, often abbreviated Baetica, was one of three Roman provinces in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula). Baetica was bordered to the west by Lusitania, and to the northeast by Hispania Tarraconensis. Baetica remained one of the basi ...
passed through the municipality. One, la Real, continues to cross town from the Plaza of Spain to the Plaza de Andalucia.
Little is known about the history of Alameda from then until the sixteenth century. Only a small
Visigoth
The Visigoths (; la, Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were an early Germanic people who, along with the Ostrogoths, constituted the two major political entities of the Goths within the Roman Empire in late antiquity, or what is kn ...
treasure the sixth century indicates that there was a settlement at that time in this location. And once the sixteenth century began, it became part of the Marquess of
Estepa. Give that within the area the roads that connected
Granada,
Málaga and Seville crossed, the Marquis de Estepa, in 1663, decided to build the parish Immaculate Conception, around which the population was established.
Apart from the first half of the nineteenth century, Alameda forms part of the province of Málaga.
In the Plaza de Andalucia, which can be considered today the center of town, is a tombstone of 1994 which reads "The first Republican council, established on June 27, 1931, ordered the bell of the clock with the names of their councilors in relief, being carved during the unfortunate events of 1936. Being unreadable today, in their remembrance this plate is placed.
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Politics and administration
The political administration of the municipality is carried out through a democratically controlled town council whose members are elected every four years by universal suffrage.
References
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Municipalities in the Province of Málaga