Alberche del Caudillo
Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Soportales plaza del ayuntamiento
Information from Alberche del Caudillo:
Telephone: 925 849 232
Email Ayuntamiento: albercheayuntamiento@yahoo.es
Alberche del Caudillo is interesting if you are looking for a village of colonization. Village built by the National Institute of Colonisation in its attempt to distribute property, to make crops profitable and to populate large areas of the territory related to the irrigation areas of the Tagus and Alberche rivers in particular. It is the largest of all the works carried out in the province of Toledo, with a church and adjoining premises, a rectory, schools, housing for teachers, a rural home, a co-operative centre, a town hall, a secretary's house, a doctor's house and a cinema.
The name of this village, the most recently founded of all those that make up the region. "Alberche" refers to the river whose waters, channelled through irrigation ditches, are used to irrigate the extensive irrigated plains that make up its jurisdiction, and "del Caudillo" refers to the popular term for the Spanish head of state at the time when these projects were drawn up.
The long-distance footpath on the way to Guadalupe runs through this picturesque village.
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What to see?
It is a temple of modern construction with stained glass windows and a beautiful apse of neo-Romanesque structure. The 2 m high ceramic plinth by Ruiz de Luna, which runs the length of the church, is very interesting, as is the Via Crucis, also in ceramic, the work of Piñero. It has two beautiful images of unknown authorship, both from the Castilian imagery of the Golden Age: Saint Michael and Christ on the Cross. There is also a recumbent Christ, the work of Dorrego, a sculptor currently based in Arganda del Rey, which is a wonderful copy of the Christ that is located in the Madrid town of El Pardo and was made by Gregorio Fernández.
