HISTORY of our region:

Extremadura

SPAIN

• Ancient settlers in

Extremadura lived in caves

and painted on the walls

(cave art)

• They also built some

monuments made of stones

in which they buried dead

people o their ashes

(dolmen)

Ancient settlers

• Those ancient civilizations were Celts and

Iberians. Later on they joined together and

were called Celtiberian

Romans

• 2000 years ago, Romans divided Extremadura into

two provinces: Bética and Lusitania, whose capital

was Emérita Augusta (Mérida)

Muslims

• They arrived in Spain from the north of Africa in VIII century

• They stayed in Extremadura for hundreds of years and lived

peacefully with Spanish and Extremeños

• They built a great variety of monuments, for example the

Citadle in Badajoz

Extremeños around the world

• Later on the region was for a long period of time the border

between Moorish and Christian. After the reconquest it

arrived to new splendor with the discovery of America, when

it was the cradle of several famous conquerors from

Extremadura

Pizarro founded

Lima city (Peru)

Hernán Cortés

discovered Mexico Vasco Núñez de Balboa

discovered the Pacific Ocean

Other personalities from

Extremadura • Some other well-known people from this

region of Spain are:

– Politics: Bravo Murillo and Manuel Godoy

– Musicians: Cristóbal Oudrid

and Juan Vázquez

– Painters: Luis de Morales, Francisco Zurbarán, Adelardo

Covarsí