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Translation by: Ignasi Royo.

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Since december 1996.

Welcome to my village's page!

Here you will find a sample of the village.
 
 

If tou want to get to the point anel loook for any definite corporation here uou have them, if you wnat general information about the village, have a look to the whole report.
 
The village's corporations are:

If you want to suggest anything, E-mail to: Engelbert Sans Vernet or Engelbert
You can see on a map the exact situation of the village in Baix Camp

Photographs by:

General Information

-. Location:

L'Aleixar's boundaries: the village belongs to the Baix Camp area, Reus' judicial district. It is situated in a territori broken by a valley behind the last jagged mountain-chain spurs oj La Mussara. 1.707 out of its 1.965 ha are dry farming lands and 258 ha are irrigated lands.
L'Aleixar borders on the north with Vilaplana, on the NW and NE with La Mussara's eld area, on the NE with L'Albiol, on the east with la Selva des Camp, Almoster and Castellvess, on the west with Alforja and Maspujols , on the south with Riudoms and Reus, on the SE with Castellvell and on the SW with Maspulols.

Historic evolution (of the village):

The first historical testimonies of the village gigan to tade shape once Siurana's reconquest was fulfilled. There are many versions about the etymologic origin of the village's name. The most approved one is that which considers L'Aliexar, as comming from the Aravic name: Al-aisar, mianing "the fertile" or also "fertile land". It is also said that l'Aleixar was born under the protection oj an Arab "masia" (*1) with the meaning of "little Saracen fort.

(*1) Catalunya's typical rural house.

Interesting Places:

St. Martí's Parish Church, is already named in a Papal Bulleting dated on 1194. The building has a rectagular shape, it is 30 meters long and 19.5 meters wide, the walls are made of stone and mortar. The baroque front door below a well-preserbed shield of the village was made in 1725. To the right side of the church's front there is the bell tower composed by three quadrangular bodies made of the same material as the nest of the building.

Inside, the church is diveded into three naves: the central one, wider, and two aisles with retables simulating chapels.
 
 

You can also find the baroque organ, 18th C, glaced above the second chapel of the seft-hand sede aisle, quite near the choir where the singers were placed (it is worth mentioning that nowadays there are singers, besides the organ, accompaning the masses).
L'Aleixar's baroque organ is nearly the only one well-preserved in this area..
 

If you want more information dial (977) 81-53-74, Fina A.

If you want on enlargement of the church's location, al well as a view of the front of a detail of the baroque retable in the form of a photograph and any other explanation, press St. Martí's Parish Church seen from outside and inside.
 

St. Blai's Hermitage

The hermitage dedicated to this saint is placed to the right of the road which goes up towards Prades' mountains, ten minutes from the centre of the village. The oldest references come from some polychromes wood floor tiles which show the medievas origin of the building.


Monumental trees:

One hundred metres from Mas de Borbó, in l'Aleixar area, quete near the old parh from Reus to Prades, You can find the biggest and, probably, the oldest holm oak of Catalunya: the Mas de Borbé's holm oak.

The age of this tree is considered to be millennial
 
 

Its measures (in metres)):

Mas de Borbo's holm oad is not the only monumental tree in l'Aleixar; three kilometres to the west of the holm oak you find the pinc tree of "les Planes", one of the thickest pinc trees of Catalunya, with 4,70 m trunk's circumference.

Climate, vegetation and fauna:

They correspond to the general characteristics of a Mediterranean area..

Services::

Local swimming-pool, football field, basdetball pitch, library.
 
 

The publec swimming-pool was opened in 1985 bythe president of the Generalitat, Jordi Pujol

Bars and restaurants:

Local festivals:
If you want to suggest anything, E-mail to: Engelbert Sans Vernet or Engelbert

Last modification of this page: 15/02/1997

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