Map of Badajoz (1873)

This plan, drawn by a commission of army officers in 1871 and published in 1873, shows the city of Badajoz in Spain.

The map shows how in the 19th century the city still had its bastioned enclosure fully intact. The Alcazaba can be seen in the northeast, labelled as a castle, as well as the eight bastions and two semi-bastions that made up the fortification. All the bastions have been preserved to the present day except for the bastion of San Juan, which was demolished in the 1950s to create the present-day Avenida de Europa.

To the north, at the top, you can see the railway station, inaugurated in 1866 on the outskirts of the city and to the north of the Guadiana River. This would be the nucleus from which the right (north) bank of the Guadiana River would be urbanised at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

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