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The 1809 fire

Calera y Chozas, La Campana de Oropesa, Toledo

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The 1809 fire

Curiosity · Calera y Chozas, La Campana de Oropesa, Toledo

Image of Calera y Chozas, not of the place itself.

During the Peninsular War, after the townspeople resisted the French troops, the Duke of Belluno ordered the town to be burnt and its people punished.

Photo: José Antonio Lagier Martin (CC BY 3.0)

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