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Encyclopedia Britannica



VALENCIA DE ALCANTARA

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 846 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TUM-VAN
VALENCIA DE ALCANTARA , a town of western Spain, in the province of Caceres; on the Madrid-Caceres-Lisbon railway, near the right bank of the Sever, a small stream which here divides Spain from Portugal. Pop. (1900) 9417. Valencia de Alcantara is the most important custom-
house
  for direct
traffic
  between the Peninsular kingdoms except Badajoz, and has a flourishing trade in farm produce of all kinds, and in phosphates from the neighbouring mines. The town is occupied by a garrison, and retains its old-fashioned loopholed walls and dismantled citadel. A Roman aqueduct still brings water to the main
street
 , and there are other Roman remains in the
district
 ; the courtyards and windows of many houses are Moorish in style. The interesting church of Roqueamador
dates
  from the 14th century, the church of Encarnacion, the town
hall
  and a fine convent, from the 16th. From the 16th century to the 18th Valencia was a celebrated border fortress; it was captured by the Portuguese in 1664 and 1688.


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