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Vista del piedemonte de Llíria desde las alturas del municipio, con la llanura agrícola extendiéndose hacia el Turia.

Llíria turned a hill into a capital and later opened the waterway toward the huerta

From the Tosal de San Miguel, about 500 meters from Llíria’s historic center, the view reaches across a plain that descends toward the Turia. Edeta, the Iberian city that was th...

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What nobody tells you: why you need a ground study before building your home?

Your dream can turn into a nightmare if you ignore what lies beneath your feetYou’ve been saving for years. At last you have that plot of land where you’ll build the house of yo...

Guide to carry out a geotechnical study: Key steps and recommendations

1. What is a geotechnical study and why is it important?The geotechnical study is the process of analysing the physical and mechanical properties of the soil on a specific site....

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Bétera turned the water of its farmland into a Roman villa and later into an olive press

The baths ceased to be baths. In the mid-fifth century, the Roman villa located in Bétera’s farmland was converted by the Visigoths into a farm, and the spaces intended...

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El castillo de Alcañiz, símbolo del recinto amurallado impulsado por la orden de Calatrava.

Alcañiz grew between the reeds of the Guadalope and the walls of Calatrava

The Guadalope encircles Alcañiz with a meander that is not only a feature of the landscape: it also appears in the account of the city’s origin. Along its banks, reeds or...

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Monumento al pozo artesiano de La Pedraja de Portillo, referencia visible de la relación histórica de la localidad con el agua.

La Pedraja de Portillo was born between the waters of the Raso and a subsoil of gravels and sands

The shepherds would come down from the heights of Portillo with the sheep to graze them on the moorlands and pine woods of the Raso de Portillo. When the day’s work was...

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Vista de excavaciones en el Alcázar de Jerez de la Frontera, donde se documentaron fondos de cabañas y huellas de antiguos silos (hallazgos ligados al Calcolítico).

Jerez de la Frontera: the city that learned to store grain and wine because the subsoil never forgot

Between the arcades of the Alcázar, the air seems still. But if you pause to look at the excavated ground, that stillness is deceptive: there are traces of silos and of...

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La Cárcava, en Boadilla del Monte, donde el paisaje residencial convive con espacios abiertos y vegetación.

Boadilla del Monte: when the hill stopped separating the town and urban planning tried to stitch it together

A city that grows where the hillside began There comes a moment, when crossing Boadilla del Monte, when the city changes scale. The streets of the traditional core give...

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Los muros del castillo de El Catllar nacen directamente del afloramiento rocoso del cerro, haciendo casi indistinguible la frontera entre roca natural y piedra trabajada.

El Catllar, where the rock rules from the castle to the church

There is a detail that goes unnoticed by anyone who reaches the old centre of El Catllar for the first time. The walls of the castle do not begin where the ground ends...

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