Montijo

Guillermo Gallego Ávila.

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.

Sights

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.

Church of the Apostle St. Peter

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.

Saint Clara´s Convent

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, and 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 ...

  Roman Villa of Torre Águila 

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.

Spain Square

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.

La Puentecilla

The End