is in four autonomous communities at the same time

The geography It is capriciousjust as history or politics is often. In the case of Valverde, a tiny district of the municipality of Alhama River Cerverathose three whims have converged to generate a situation Very unorthodox: A population in which four autonomies shake hands.

His situation is so rocambolesca that a inhabitant of Valverde arrives a small walk to tour La Rioja, Aragón, Castilla y León and Navarra. All an anomaly in the broad (often capricious) Spanish administrative map.

In a place in Spain … In Alhama-Linaressouth of La Rioja, there is a municipality called Alhama River Cerveraof just over 2,200 neighbors and a long Employment traditionthat hides a small secret inside. Administratively the town is Rioja, but from time to time jumps to the holders for the particular status of one of its districts, Valverde. The reason? It is literally fitted among four different communities.

A town, four regions. If you open Google Maps and “Valverde” You will verify the peculiar situation of the population, at the confluence of four different regions: La Rioja, Aragón, Navarra and Castilla y León. The inhabited nucleus is split by the dividing line that separates Aragon from La Rioja, but that is not its only anomaly: the Castellanoleonese border is located a few hundred meters from where the houses are located. And Navarra is not much further.

If situation comes so much about the common It stands out The City of Cervera del Río Alhama. “The neighborhood is from the center of the Villa 10 kilometers, it is located at the southeast end of the Autonomous Community of La Rioja, next to the skirts of Moncayo”, Remember the Consistory’s website. “Its location is peculiar, because it coincides with the border limits of four communities.”

A curiosity, a legend. Valverde is not only striking for its mixture of borders. It is also for The story (Legend, rather) that has its peculiar position Sancho el Fuerte, Alfonso II El Casto and Alfonso VIISovereign respectively of Navarra, Aragon and Castilla, to negotiate alliances.

The place chose it because that way the three could be cited without any abandoned their domains. Some versions They tell In fact, the monarchs came to celebrate a lunch on a triangular table arranged in the kingdoms. The place is known as “The Mojón de los Tres Reyes”.

A theoretical division. The most striking of Valverde is that in that anomaly you are barely felt in the day -to -day life of its neighbors, except in special situations, such as During pandemia. The division of the district, in which some 200 people (Many of them on Rioja soil) The brand the street of the station.

The Herald newspaper Precise Also that most people’s services are located in the area that corresponds to La Rioja, near the road (N-13) that connects Pamplona with Madrid. According to the exact place in which the neighbors are censored, yes, they have to go to Hospitals in Logroño or Zaragoza.

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