Calatrava field

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The Calatrava Camp Real.

Geomorphologically, it is a region characterized by its hills of volcanic origin and its lagoons.

The story of this region is related to that of the Order of Calatrava that was based in Almagro and its strength was the castle of Calatrava la Nueva. Its origin is in one of the most waric and decisive stages of the low Middle Ages for the Unit of Castile, linked to the foundation of the aforementioned homonymous military order, whose entrustment was the surveillance and protection of the South-Southwest avant-garde of the Plateau of the Islamic runs, as the first containment front of Castilla and Toledo, its main capital, beyond the depression of the Tagus, next to the Ribera del Guadiana.

municipalities of the region

Landscape of the Campo de Calatrava in Bolaños de Calatrava (Ciudad Real)
Map of the Campo de Calatrava Historic (fragment of the former province of La Mancha, by Thomás López Pensionista, year 1765).
MunicipalityPopulation (2019)SurfaceDensity
Ciudad Real74 746284,98253,38
Puertollano47 035226,74226,27
Miguelturra15 368118.37114.74
Bolaños de Calatrava11 93487.90140.77
Almagro8896249,7334,36
Almodóvar del Campo60271208.475,45
Argamasilla de Calatrava5943165.9436,27
Moral of Calatrava5271188,2029,43
Calzada de Calatrava3719410.9410,85
Pozuelo de Calatrava355399.6729,04
Carrión de Calatrava308295.7729,75
Torralba de Calatrava2977101.5830.21
Poblete262627,8256.79
King's Village1657154.3113,27
Alcolea de Calatrava140970.7923.10
Corral de Calatrava1123148.778,34
Fernán Caballero1001103.9611,21
Calatrava granule714152.656.31
Valenzuela de Calatrava68844,0817.92
Picon65859.5711.60
Villamayor de Calatrava634144.814.32
Ballesteros de Calatrava37357.838,82
The Pozuelos de Calatrava37284,005,61
Caracuel de Calatrava1349.9216,43
Cañada de Calatrava102.29,903,91
Villar del Pozo7513,238,31


Almonds in bloom next to seasonal lagoon in the Campo de Calatrava.

Historically, Campo de Calatrava occupied the domains of the Order of Calatrava in La Mancha, which represented a large portion of the center of the current province of Ciudad Real. According to the historian Ricardo Izquierdo Benito et al. (2002): "The Calatrava field was the central nucleus of the domain of this Order. It extended from Puerto del Muradal, that is, the current Despeñaperros pass in Sierra Morena, to Puerto de Orgaz, or Los Yébenes, in the Montes de Toledo. To the west, the Calatravian domains reached Chillón, Valdemanco and Navas de Estena, sharing terms with the Archbishopric of Toledo and later with the town hall of this same city in the Montes de Toledo, at the height of the port of Milagro. To the east, they reached the borders with the domains of the other Orders of San Juan and Santiago, as determined by various agreements approved already in the 13th century, when the border was moved to Andalusian lands after the Battle of the Navas de Tolosa.".

  • La Mancomunidad de Municipals del Campo de Calatrava includes the municipalities of: Aldea del Rey, Almagro, Ballesteros de Calatrava, Bolaños de Calatrava, Carrión de Calatrava, Calzada de Calatrava, Granátula de Calatrava, Miguelturra, Pozuelo de Calatrava, Torralba de Calatrava, Valenzuela de Calatrazo, Villanueva de San Carlos and Villanueva de San Carlos.
  • The district of Calatrava, according to the Provincial Council of Ciudad Real, includes the municipalities: of the Mancomunity of Municipalities, of which it excludes Villanueva de San Carlos, and to those it adds: Alcolea de Calatrava, Argamasilla de Calatrava, Caracuel de Calatrava, Cañada de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Corral de Calatrava, Fernán Caballero, Moral de Calatrava

The historical capital of Campo de Calatrava was Almagro, in competition with Ciudad Real, the only place in the region that did not belong to the Order of Calatrava, but to the Crown.

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Municipios que pertenecen a la Orden hasta su enajenación por la Corona en el siglo XVI:

  • Santa Cruz de Mudela, ceded in 1540 to D. Alvaro "El Viejo".
  • Valdepeñas from its foundation, according to the archives of the Order from 1243, until 1575 that was sold to D. Alvaro de Bazán, first Marquis de Santa Cruz de Mudela. (He was bound by the Order of Santiago)
  • Viso del Marquis, formerly called Viso del Puerto. Lost to D. Alvaro "El Viejo", father of the Marquis de Santa Cruz.


Flora of Campo de Calatrava

In the abundant seasonal lagoons of greater or lesser depth and persistence.

Vegetation of partially waterlogged soils

Communities installed in the basins of temporary lagoons with more or less saline soils, when they dry out during the summer. They form grasslands of different structure and composition, depending of the degree of desiccation and salinity of the environment, Eryngium corniculatum, Elatine alsinastrum, Chara fragilis, Scirpus maritimus, Scirpus lacustris subsp. lacustris, Scirpus lacustris subsp. tabernaemantani, Typha angustifolia, Puccinellia fasciculata, Littorella uniflora, Elatine hexandra, Eleocharis acicularis, Iliecebrum verticillatum, Montia fontana subsp. chondrosperma, Isoetes velatum, Eleocharis palustris, Lythrum borysthenicum, Illecebrum verticillatum, Ranunculus longipes, Isoetes setacea, Juncus emmanuelis, Crypsis aculeata, Cressa cretica, Lythrum tribracteatum, Lythrum flexuasum, Myriophyllum spicatum, Phragmites australis,, etc.

Vascular aquatic vegetation

Laguna de Cañada de Calatrava crossed by the high-speed train line and the Puertollano-Ciudad Real motorway.

Vascular aquatic vegetation is well represented by two related communities, but which occupy somewhat different ecological niches. In the deeper waters you will find Myriophylla - Potametum trichaidis, Myriaphyllum spicatum, Callitriche stagnalis, Potamageton pectinatus, Ranunculus peltatus i> subsp. peltatus, Ranunculus trichophyllus, Zannichellia palustris, which gives way at shallower depths to the Myriophyllo - Callitrichetum brutiae . Callitriche brutia, the community's leading species, can be replaced in some lagoons by Callitriche truncata, of a similar biotype and with similar ecological desires. Chara galiaides, Chara canescens, Chara aspera, Chara hispida var. majar, Tolypella giamerata, Nitella tenuissima, Ruppia drepanensis, Ruppia mantua var. maritime.

Monuments

Summer landscape of the Camp de Calatrava from Sierra Pelada (Bolaños de Calatrava).
  • Volcano Cerro Gordo
  • Castle of Calatrava the Old
  • Castle of Calatrava the New
  • Salvatierra Castle
  • Castle of D.a Berenguela, of Bolaños de Calatrava or of San Fernando.
  • Archaeological site of Oreto and Zuqueca.
  • Corral de comedias de Almagro
  • Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Mount
  • Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Snows

Fiestas of Campo de Calatrava

The celebration of the majority of festivals in the region have similar features or characteristics, so much so that in some celebrations such as Holy Week, it has earned them recognition as a festival of national tourist interest, due to their regional uniqueness. Below we list the most significant ones:

  • Semana Santa Calatrava or Ruta de la Pasión de Calatrava. Camp Calatrava. Easter in Bolaños de Calatrava, Almagro, Moral de Calatrava, Calzada de Calatrava, Pozuelo de Calatrava.
  • Caras Game. Calzada de Calatrava.
  • Romería Virgen del Monte. Bolaños de Calatrava.
  • Romería de Nuestra Señora María Cabeza de los Santos. Pozuelo de Calatrava
  • Carnival of Miguelturra. Miguelturra.
  • Feast of the Christ of the Albahaca (barrels procession and raffle of offerings). Bolaños de Calatrava.

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