Presentation Welcome Ceremony Montijo Meeting: Montijo

1. Guillermo Gallego Ávila.

2. Montijo is a town and municipality
in the province of Badajoz, in
Extremadura, Spain.
It has a population of 16,236
inhabitants
It's located between Badajoz and
Mérida , near the river Guadiana .
The area of the municipality covers
three differents municipalities :
Lácara, Barbaño, and Montijo, being
the last one the capital.

3. Sights

4. This church is built in
1494 following the
Gothic style and was
finished in 1604, and
restored in the
seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries,
leaving the nave
intact , with the
shape of a Latin
cross. Latter the
transept and the
chapel were added.

5. The convent was
built in 1703 over the
old chapel Nuestra
Señora de los
Remedios. An old
religious order
called “Las Clarisas"
resides in this
convent. Usually
nuns pray, meditate
and prepare
handmade sweets,
whose recipes are a
culinary secret of
this religious order.

6. Torre Águila was made in the first
century B.C .
The villa was built around a
central courtyard (peristyle) with
stately
dependencies, baths, rooms, etc, an
d a second area for farming
use, with tanks, warehouses, etc ...
In another stage a new peristyle
was built with majestic rooms.
There was a wine storehouse
added as well.
The last stage was on the Visigoth
period , with buildings related to
Christian worship:
Baptistry, Church, Cemetery, etc ...

7. The collective life of Montijo is carried out around this square
from 1900. Initially it had some palm trees and a kiosk for musical
performances in the middle. In 1905 El Paseo was built and in 1920
it was cemented. Now Spain Square is a lively place for younger
and older people for meeting, chatting, and so on.

8. This is a small medieval
bridge with a half-point
arch, built with ten
ashlars of granite.
Dimensions of the arch
are 2.50 meters wide and
1.50 meters high.