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Alcantarilla is a town and municipality in southeastern Spain, in the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia. The town is only 7 km away from the capital of the region, the city of Murcia, and one of its peculiarities is that it is completely surrounded by "pedanías" (satellite districts or boroughs) of the municipality of Murcia like Sangonera La Seca, San Ginés, Nonduermas, Puebla de Soto, La Ñora, Javalí Viejo and Javalí Nuevo.
The town is part of a low-lying fertile plain rich in gardens, orchards and citrus fruits, known as the "Huerta", which includes the valleys of the river Segura and its right-hand tributary the Guadalentín or river Sangonera and is surrounded by mountains. The Huerta belongs mainly to the large administrative authority of the city of Murcia but it also includes other small municipalities (Alcantarilla, Beniel y Santomera) that could not be omitted from the Huerta's framework either functionally or visually.
The Paratrooper Military School (Escuela Militar de Paracaidismo) "Méndez Parada" of the Spanish Air and Space Force is quartered at the Alcantarilla Air Base, which is also used by the Paratrooper Brigade of the Spanish Army, an airborne elite unit called the Black Berets, which has a base in Murcia, not far from the air base at Alcantarilla.
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La Rueda de Alcantarilla (también conocida como "Rueda de la Huerta") es una noria situada en la localidad de Alcantarilla (Región de Murcia, España).
MuseoBien de interés cultural
La casa de la Inquisición, también conocida como casa de las Cayitas, es un edificio del siglo XVIII en el municipio murciano de Alcantarilla (España). Fue la sede del tribunal comarcal de la Inquisición hasta la disolución de la institución en el siglo XIX.
CasaBien de interés cultural
El convento de los Mínimos o de San Francisco de Paula en el municipio de Alcantarilla (Región de Murcia, España), es un antiguo conjunto conventual del siglo XVIII.
ConventoBien de interés cultural
El puente de la Pólvora era un puente metálico con estribos de piedras sobre el río Segura construido entre 1870 y 1877 entre la pedanía murciana de Javalí Viejo y Alcantarilla, en la Región de Murcia (España).
Puente
La Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro Apóstol se trata de una de las iglesias más emblemáticas del municipio de Alcantarilla en Murcia
Iglesia parroquial católica
Museo etnográfico, del siglo XX.
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Puente
Ermita
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Places and plans from OpenStreetMap (ODbL): what is mapped within the municipal boundary, by name. If something is missing, it can be added there and will appear here in the next update.
What there really is in the village and around it, with distances. If an activity isn't on this list, we haven't found it nearby.
