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Birthplace of Fermín Caballero

Barajas de Melo, La Alcarria Conquense, Cuenca

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Birthplace of Fermín Caballero

Monument · Barajas de Melo, La Alcarria Conquense, Cuenca

Image of Barajas de Melo, not of the place itself.

The birthplace of Fermín Caballero, in Barajas de Melo (Alcarria Conquense, Cuenca), is today a cultural centre bearing his name that holds belongings, documents and bibliography about this illustrious figure. Caballero, born on 7 July 1800 into a family of well-off farmers, was a geographer, politician, writer and journalist, a deputy to the Cortes for Cuenca, Madrid, Castellón and Toledo between 1834 and 1854, and went on to become Minister of the Interior and mayor of Madrid. Among his works stand out the Nomenclatura geográfica de España (1834) and the Manual geográfico-administrativo de España (1844). He died in Madrid in 1876.

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