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Hondón de los Frailes
A compact farming village between the Sierra de los Frailes and Sierra de Crevillent, named for two centuries under the Dominican lordship of Redován.
Dominicans and mountain fields
A small village inside a narrow cultivated corridor
Hondón de los Frailes sits at about 415 metres between close mountain fronts. Its church, low houses and fields occupy a corridor only a few kilometres south of neighbouring Hondón de las Nieves.
The name recalls the Dominican College of Preachers, which controlled the former lordship of Redován from 1616. Vines, almonds and olives continued to shape the land after the village became an independent municipality in 1926.
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Hondón de los Frailes: vines, friars and a village between sierras
The Dominican lordship behind the village's name, its path to independence and the mountain agriculture still surrounding it.
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