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La Orbada

La Orbada, La Armuña, Salamanca

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La Orbada

Village · La Orbada, La Armuña, Salamanca

La Orbada is a village in the Salamanca comarca of La Armuña that also includes the settlements of La Orbadilla and Villanueva de los Pavones, with 177 inhabitants in total; it lies 23 kilometres from Salamanca, on flat land crossed by the A-62 motorway. Founded by the kings of León in the Middle Ages, it was then called Lorvada and remained part of the kingdom of León until its integration into the province of Salamanca in 1833. On its hillside, in the early hours of 28 to 29 July 1936, Casto Prieto Carrasco, the first elected mayor of the city of Salamanca, was murdered, extrajudicially executed by Falangist soldiers in a ditch on the Valladolid-Salamanca road, today the N-620; alongside his remains were found those of the socialist deputy José Andrés y Manso.

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