Tuesday November 16 at 7:30 p.m., the association La Peña Columérine offers its second conference of the 2021-2022 season: “La Isabela, or drowned memory”.
Santiago Mendieta, director of the Revue Gibraltar, will tell the story of the small village of La Isabela, created by the King of Spain in 1826 for the aristocracy of Madrid coming to take the waters.
In this former Real Sitio (site belonging to the Crown of Spain), lived then poor farmers and ranchers. The Isabela was then auctioned off and then dismantled stone by stone, and methodically destroyed by the Spanish state and the electric company during Franco’s regime to make way for the huge lake or reservoir of Buendía.
The village was swallowed up in March 1955.
Beyond this story, it is also Spain’s policy around the construction of dams and water management that will be discussed: more than 700 villages have been sacrificed in the peninsula to make way for macro-dams that drown the best arable land.
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