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City of wooden bowl, marry pending

One of the medieval more beautiful cities of Spain, patrimony of the humanity, located as door of the |conquense| mountainous country between the sickles of the Júcar river and your the Huécar affluent. It disavows to him exactly the historical origin of the city, some historians begins to appear of the step of the Concanos, settle eminently warrior and of the possibility of a Lobetano settling; in your current emplacement it existed in the IX century a denominate strength shell, built for the dependent arabs of the emirate of valency in times of the kings of factions, passing more late to the can of the Seville king to the -Maramit, and of whose hands it went in the Almoravides and after to those of Alfonso VIII of wool coating, that in 1177 the joined your dominions. Alphonse X " the wise person " conceded you title of city. Suffered ring and was plundered for the French forces during the War of Independence. It was beleaguered and taken for the carlists in 1874 by wasting part of the wall and by executing to a great number of your inhabitants. In 1902 some works of |remodelación| of the cathedral caused the precipice of the facade and on the side of the central aisle. In 1996 it was deposed patrimony city of the humanity by the UNESCO between the monuments of wooden bowl, stand out the cathedral, national monument of Gothic style Anglo-Norman, exemplary unique in Spain, that at present it finds in process of reconstruction.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuenca_%28Espa%C3 %B1a%29

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