Villa Nice, Guarromán, Matajudíos… Meet the funniest names of Spanish towns

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Villa Nice, Matajudíos, Cucumber, Guarromán… are all names of people of which the inhabitants are not very proud… Sometimes by writing errors, other for revenge, others mistranslations… the fact is that the Spanish geography is full of very horny and funny names worth knowing.

 

Politically incorrect

To the Burgos town of Castrillo, the error of a seventeenth-century notary public bequeathed the surname of Matajudíos that is now debating to change to recover lost Motajudíos name or Jews Mota.

 

There was no confusion in the naming of Valle de Matamoros, in Badajoz, yet known whether there really was a massacre in place or last name comes from Matamoros, so common in the medieval nobility nearby Jerez de los Caballeros.

There are other Matanzas, Leon, and included a Matagorda, El Ejido (Almería), near the hamlet of Old Guard but its name comes from a clump of place, very common in other toponyms.

In Torture, in the town of Alava Cuartango, just live nadie hoy, but yes in the two La Degollada of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas, whose name still strikes fear.

Fights Above or Fights Below, both in Zamora, Instead of fighting each other were for centuries between Moors and Christians, separated by the stream of Valparaiso, although popular legend attributes the name to the bandits who assaulted travelers and took refuge in the place. Villanueva del Trabuco (Malaga), in return, not from these highwaymen, but a landlord who protected them with him.

Other inquiries

The query Castrillo Matajudíos remember the one lived just two years ago in Guadiana del Caudillo. The town of Badajoz 2.530 The inhabitants decided by vote to continue being "of the Caudillo" because "it has always been called that way and it should continue like that" according to the opinions of the majority of the residents. Other places that still evoke Franco in the placename, as Llanos del Caudillo, (Ciudad Real), Águeda del Caudillo (Salamanca) or Bembézar del Caudillo (Cordova), have not come to bring the change that took place in itself change Bardena (Saragossa) or Guadalcacín (Cádiz). The Toledo Alberche del Caudillo debated it in full in 2007, but the decision was postponed… and remains so until now.

Others changed his name, but not its political left. Highlights 1909Pocilgas, in Salamanca, changed his name to Buenavista for the panoramic view of the Sierra de Gredos that the town and Barba del Puerco have (Salamanca) became 1916 in Safe Harbor.

Disgusting was renamed in 1943 Valderrubio and in the fifties Villar del Puerco (Salamanca) became Villar de Argañán. In 1957 Sacaojos, Leon, decided to adopt that of Santiago de la Valduerna. Alija de los Melones preferred that of Alija the Infantry and huts, in Madrid, voted in 1959 be renamed Soto del Real as in the seventeenth century Pigsty became Miraflores de la Sierra after Isabel de Borbón, wife of Philip IV, allegedly said that 'look, Flowers!"When he rested in that place way to the monastery Paular.

A Guarromán and hazards from Correpoco

In every journey through the most curious signs on Spanish roads, you cannot miss the one of Guarromán, Jaen, that has nothing to do with any neat little superhero. De facto, the Ministry of Public Works granted in 1982 the award for cleanest village in Spain to Guarromán, and not to his neighbor Bathrooms. On the toponym comes vocablo Wadi-r-Rumman, "River of the pomegranate" as called by the Arabs now known as the River Tamujoso. It gave its name to the first sale and subsequently Guadarromán Guarromán, complexed far from its sonorous name, shelters the International Association of Peoples with Ugly Names, Rare and Unusual.

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Its name refers to another, that of Barroman (but Ávila), that word of mouth led to "the place of Juan Román" the current place name, as seen, does it have to do with any man of clay.

In Guasa (Huesca) so do not take his name, Neither are the Huesca neighbors of Triste, and if there are Dangers in Granada, there is also Value that is assumed in advance to their neighbors such as those of Raíces (Pontevedra) his love of the land.

The legends about Honey (Corunna) talk of a farewell Mr. Castro to his beautiful daughter died at the scene or ten beautiful unmarried daughters of a marriage and the care they provided for thirteen shipwrecked, three of which they had randomly chosen to leave. Another legend tells that Bienservida (Albacete) is named after the Countess of Paredes in the sixteenth century was so grateful for the good treatment they gave the place, that gave rise to the name was changed.

Downloadmaría is believed to be named after being a place where the women who carried the water or the collection teams rested. Neither this town from Cáceres nor that of Bernuy de Porrerosen Segovia cultivate marijuana, as well as ashtray (Rioja) niLa Cilla (Ávila) relate to the snuff yes chose neighbors Asquerosa (Granada) Blonde cultivating snuff to change its name Valderrubio.

Pollutes (Saragossa) dissociates itself from any damage to the environment. Its name comes from the Latin Condomin (I) A (condominium)

There are also various etymological theories about the origin of the Villanueva del Pardillo place name (Madrid) related to the brown color of ancient dress of its people or its possible derivation of pardina, coppice grazing. From Cotillas (Albacete) it is said that its name comes from the castle now in ruins era was known in Arabic as Al Cutillas (under the hill).

Villalibre Jurisdiction, Leon, can lead to confusion because villalibrenses are not a lawless town, as well as Extraworld from Above, Extramundi or Below (both in Corunna) live outside the world.

Sewer , in Murcia, comes from the Arabic word “al-qantara” means “bridge” and referred to a small bridge over the River Segura, explains the City Council website, and in rare cabins(Leon) no buildings that deserve so called, nor in Aveinte (Ávila) or in Correpoco (Cantabria) must run at a slower speed.

They have nothing to do with Casas de Fernando Alonso or Iniesta (both in Cuenca) with the famous racing driver 1 or the Barcelona player. A certain Fernando Alonso bought the friary was in this place, almost on the border with Albacete, and formed a new town to which he put his name, while in the case of Iniesta traces its origins to the V century BC, according to City Council website.

Castilla-La Mancha has a Thumb and Nails , La Coruña con Brazos and several towns carry their heads in their name, but to say goodbye you have to get to Good Night, In Malaga, or the final goodbye, Navarre.

Racy

A joke wedding rose to fame last January Villapene, in Cospeito (Lugo). The sign indicating the town came to a wedding ceremony for pure pitorreo, born to be the boyfriend of this small town of less than 200 inhabitants officially called Santa María de Vilapene. The origin of the name has nothing to do with the male genital organ, as then claimed the former mayor José pedáneo (Pepe) Balsa Labrada but if not known, we can continue with the joke and still be a celebrity ', laughingly pointed.

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In social networks Villapene fame competing in another Galician people, Parderrubias, in Salceda de Caselas (Pontevedra), that originally referred to two stones, although others remembered the town of Espolla, in Gerona and other towns with unfortunate names outside of Spain as Vagina, in Russia, Condom en el French department of the Gers Fucking, en Austria.

Other Names, as El Tocón (Granada) nor myron (Pontevedra), also give rise to humorous jokes.

Cucumber to Pancrudo

Nothing having to do the "pepineros" with this vegetable is now the name of this town near Toledo Talavera de la Reina. The origin of this town of about 2.600 overlooked is that "one of the seven heirs former tenants living in that place was called Alonso Cucumber». Nor the name of the nearby Onion, a 30 kilometers of cucumber, Gourmet linkage would. Apparently it would be fruit of the Arab castellanización term 'yevayla' which means hill.

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In the same Castilla-La Mancha are other interesting names that evoke fruits like Plums (Toledo) and Plums (Guadalajara). Ajoy Jabugo you have to look for them in Cantabria. In Melon (Orense) not grown melons and Villaconejos (Madrid) and neither watermelons in Sandiás (labeled in the “a” whose name comes from the German sand-ila, true meaning), also in Ourense. Hay dosCalabazas (Segovia and Valladolid), a radish (Valladolid) and even a Pancrudo in Teruel (Aragon) which no fault enMalcocinado, (Badajoz) nor in stewing (Ávila).

God bless you and God's Daughter

Many Spanish towns were founded around a church and took the holy name which was dedicated devotion. San Pedro, present in 80 populations spread across the country, is the most common name along with San Juan and San Vicente and the only Castilian listed among the thirty most repeated of Spain.

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Other names, curious, There is only one example. It is the case of God save you, in Salamanca, Name of God or Water of God, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. There is also a Savior (Ávila), Valdediós (Asturias), as well as the gods, Malaga and Almeria.

Apatamonasterio in Vizcaya, means “monastery of clerics”, was named to differentiate a monastery founded there Atxondo other that existed in the neighboring parish of San Agustin de Echevarría, while The Daughter of God, but Ávila, should apparently named after the daughter of an innkeeper God surnamed.

Among other place names related to the religious phenomenon are The Hells (Murcia) or Hell (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), The Calvary (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Pontevedra on Zaragoza) and El Socorro (Tenerife).

Source: www.abc.es
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