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The sale of Alcantarilla to Lázaro de Usodemar

Alcantarilla, Huerta de Murcia, Murcia

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The sale of Alcantarilla to Lázaro de Usodemar

Historical milestone · Alcantarilla, Huerta de Murcia, Murcia

Image of Alcantarilla, not of the place itself.

Philip II detached the town in 1580 from the diocese of Cartagena and sold it to the Genoese merchant Lázaro de Usodemar, a typical operation of the sale of seigneuries with which the Crown tried to ease the Hispanic monarchy's debt.

1580

Photo: Juan Gutiérrez Andrés (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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