Casas Viejas is a city located in the province of Cádiz , Spain. According to the 2005 census , the city has a population of 6,754 inhabitants.
6-553: Casas Viejas is located in the Ruta del Toro . The anarchist movement which spread across Spain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was based on the ideas of Mikhail Bakunin and propagated by Giuseppi Fanelli . It urged oppressed workers to unite and organize against their oppressors, namely the State, the latifundista landowners, and the Church. It quickly took a hold amongst
12-443: A failed uprising barricaded themselves in a cottage, which was burned down with the anarchists and their families still inside. Soldiers and police then arrested anyone in the village who possessed a gun, marched them to the smoking ashes of the cottage and their dead colleagues, and shot them in the back. The massacre led to national outrage and there was considerable debate about whether the orders to kill had or had not been issued by
18-738: The President of the Second Spanish Republic , Niceto Alcalá-Zamora . This was never proven, but it is believed to have contributed to his defeat in the following general election. This article about a location in Andalusia, Spain, is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ruta del Toro The Route of the Bull (in Spanish, Ruta del Toro ) is a tourist trail in the province of Cádiz , Spain , that traverses
24-422: The areas where fighting bulls are raised. These bulls, used in bullfights (corridas) throughout Spain, are of a breed native to Spain, a breed also appreciated for its beef . The Route of the Bull is meant to direct tourists through landscapes where it is possible to observe these totemic animals in their natural habitat, but the scenery of the countryside, and the points of historical and cultural interest along
30-567: The long-exploited agricultural workers in Andalusia , who joined the CNT union or the more radical FAI and had some limited success in improving wages and working conditions. The establishment's attempts to stamp out such revolutionary zeal came to a tragic head in 1933 at Casas Viejas, now Benalup-Casas Viejas, in the Province of Cadiz . A small group of militants trying to resist arrest after
36-455: The way, make following the route worthwhile even for the visitor who finds the notion of the bullfight off-putting. The trail runs between Jerez de la Frontera and Tarifa , and it passes through the municipalities of San José del Valle , Paterna de Rivera , Medina Sidonia , Benalup-Casas Viejas , Alcalá de los Gazules , Jimena de la Frontera , Castellar de la Frontera , San Roque and Los Barrios . Another tourist trail of this sort
#166833