Word: estremadura
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...boom has speckled the Spanish sunshine with clouds that López Rodó's planners had not counted on. The country is counting the cost of rapid urbanization. Hopeful peasants are forsaking such dirt-poor regions as Andalusia or Estremadura for the industrial cities, where there is scarcely enough new housing to shelter even a fraction of them. Tourists too have paid part of the price of Spain's new prosperity. Stretches of the sunny coastlines are now so grotesquely overbuilt that they have become little more than ugly concrete jungles; the famed Costa...
After 50 years of research, art experts know a little more about Francisco Zurbaran and his work. He was born in 1598 in Estremadura, probably of Basque stock like Goya, and went through life a solitary figure burning with religious zeal. Working alone, he matured swiftly, specialized in stone-cold, almost harsh pictures of monks, saints and bishops, soon held commissions from the church...
...Spanish War simmered down again last week to a series of indecisive thrusts, first by Leftists, then by Rightists, each offensive gaining a little territory, none promising to be very big. A Leftist drive across the Segre River in Catalonia quickly died out, while a Rightist thrust in Estremadura, southwest Spain, was still 15 miles from its goal-the precious Almadén mercury mines...
...flung battle line for the defense of Valencia, the Rightists' famed radiorating General Queipo de Llano, commander-in-chief of southern Rightist Spain, was last week ordered to drive against another Leftist balloon-shaped salient. This balloon, 3,125 sq. mi. of the rich, mineral-producing Estremadura region, bulged into Rightist, lines north of Cordoba and extended to within 50 miles of the Portuguese border. This week, as military observers had long expected, one knife thrust through thinly held Leftist lines did the trick. The balloon burst, leaving the Rightists in possession of several thousand prisoners, 5,000 head...
Front No. 4. Below Toledo, for a full 150 mi. along the rolling hills of Estremadura to Mérida, again no formal line exists, but there is no unofficial truce here as in the similar sector to the north. Cavalry raids and guerrilla fighting are an almost daily occurrence. Only a shortage of men on both sides prevents Rightists from consolidating their line properly, keeps Leftists from a forceful drive through to Badajoz and the Portuguese frontier which would break Rightist communications between Franco's capital at Salamanca and the important southern strongholds of Seville and Cordoba...