Extremadura Guide Eng 2016

The Extremaduran handicrafts take on numerous jobs, most of them inherited generation by generation. They still exist thanks to the tradition and the familiar perseverance or as a the result of investigation and recovery works carried out by associations and local groups. The most part of these jobs refer to localities in Extremadura that have preserved these handicrafts jobs, thus keeping on with a worthy fame that has been won for centuries. That made some Extremaduran localities be real handmade referents for other nearby regions. Some of them are even thousand-year-old craft jobs, such as pottery and ceramics with marvellous examples and workshops with very particular styles, in one hand, special- ly in Salvatierra de los Barros, Fregenal de la Sierra, Badajoz and Mérida in the province of Badajoz. On the other hand, in the province of Cáceres, in the localities of Ceclavín, Torrej- oncillo, Trujillo or Casatejada. They are very well-known the crochet works from Cheles and Badajoz, the embroideries from Villafranca de los Barros, Ribera del Fresno, Aceuchal, Badajo, Cáceres, Jaraíz de la Vera and the beautiful laces made inAcebo, Zafra and Almendralejo. Furthermore, we can find excellent wicker and ru sh works in Mérida, Villarta de los Montes, Cáceres, Baños de Montemayor, Malpartida de Plasencia, Malpartida de Plasencia, Trujillo and Hervás and those made of wood in Mérida, Castuera, Zafra, Monesterio, Alcántara, Plasencia, Valverde del Fresno, Guijo de Santa Bárbara and Piornal. The bell-ringers from Montehermoso and the boiler- makers from Casar de Cáceres, Guadalupe and Monte- hermoso. The are wrought-iron works in localities such as Don Benito, Cáceres or La Pesga and the weavers in Ribera del Fresno, la Haba and Torrejoncillo. The gold or silver works has excellent representatives in Ceclavín, Cáceres, Badajoz, Mérida, Torrecilla de la Tiesa and

Talayuela, and the mosaics have magnificent craftsmen and crafts-women in Mérida, where the cork also stands out as well as it happens in San Vicente de Alcántara. The glass is craftily worked in Almendralejo.

Objects made of brass

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Bobbin lace

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