THE CEMENTERA

Inaugurated in 1955, the cement factory of Asland, a company of Los Santos de Maimona, intended to produce the cement necessary for the great ambitions of the Badajoz Plan (reconstruction of houses destroyed during civil war, among others). This factory, which was greeted with great expectations by the population, contributed in particular to reducing rural exodus, until its closure in 1972, for the purpose of ending plan, the impoverishment of quarries and the obsolescence of materials and nuisance for neighbours, a closed closure despite the great social protest that followed and support for this cause of the future king of the land. Spain, Juan Carlos. Acquired in 1973, at the symbolic price of a peseta, by the town hall, the premises of this company now host an interpretation centre, located in the old dock of the quarry quarry. It tells the story of this resource, from natural cement to invention of artificial cement (Portland) and the economic and social repercussions of implantation and closure of the plant through explanatory panels, graphics and audio-visual documents.