Albolote

Albolote is a metropolis positioned within the province of Granada, Spain. It is one of the thirty-four entities which together shape Granada's Metropolitan Area. It is fashioned by means of numerous populations: El Aire, El Chaparral, and Parque del Cubillas y Pretel. There are also numerous residential areas at some point of the criminal borders of the municipality. Inside the ones limits you could additionally find Granada's Penitential Center.

According to Spain's Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, the city had a total populace of 15,563 in 2005. On 19 April 1956, Albolote and the neighboring metropolis of Atarfe had been struck via a 5.0 Mw earthquake, Spain's maximum unfavorable of the 20th century. About a dozen human beings died from the earthquake and next landslide, and lots of homes had been ruined. The Granada metro network, scheduled to open in 2014, will provide the town with a mild metro link to crucial Granada.

Albolote become born as a metropolis with the appearance of the Nasrid dynasty to the Emirate of Granada. The time period comes from the Arabic time period 'Qaryat al-Bollut', that means 'Oak farm-residence' It became planned to be an area of rest for the troops guarding the Royal Path of Jaen. Near Albolote passed off the Battle of La Higueruela on July first 1431, in which king's Juan II of Castille's troops defeated the Muslim armies. This warfare changed into illustrated on the Monastery El Escorial.