{"id":328,"date":"2009-09-07T11:35:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T11:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2011-10-31T12:23:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T12:23:36","slug":"catral-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/07\/catral-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Catral Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many Vega Baja villages of the Alicante province of Spain, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/catral.html\" target=\"_blank\">Catral<\/a> is spread over a wide area with numerous detached villas on large plots of land, suggesting that maybe this is a new place. Far from it however as the village existed way back in Moorish times when it was known as Al-Quatrullat. The surrounding area became important for agriculture during the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century when the nearby marshes were drained for this purpose, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/catral-alicante.html\" target=\"_blank\">Catral<\/a> thus became more prosperous and it gained its independence from Orihuela in 1741. Life in Catral these days revolves around the village square, where you will find the ubiquitous church and of course the Town Hall (Ayuntamiento), from here a maze of quaint streets wind into shopping then residencial areas. One of the biggest days of the year\u00a0in <a title=\"Catral Alicante\" href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/catral-alicante.html\" target=\"_blank\">Catral<\/a> takes place on June 24<sup>th<\/sup>, when the village celebrates its patron saint San Juan, an event which attracts visitors from far and wide as well as local residents of the village.<\/p>\n<p>View a property for sale in Catral here: <a title=\"Catral Property for Sale\" href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/catral-property.html\" target=\"_blank\">Catral Property<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See a villa for sale in Catral here: <a title=\"Catral Villa for Sale\" href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/catral-villa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Catral Villa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get a location map here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/catral-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Map of Catral<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many Vega Baja villages of the Alicante province of Spain, Catral is spread over a wide area with numerous detached villas on large plots of land, suggesting that maybe this is a new place. Far from it however as the village existed way back in Moorish times when it was known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,6,18],"tags":[22,307,907,329],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}