This rebellion was suppressed and repressed a year later. Throughout the sixteenth century, Blanca experienced a significant increase in the population of the village. Philip II, always lacking money due to his wars, arranged a new strategy for obtaining money: Consequently, Blanca got on August 10, from Philip II the privilege of the municipality at the cost of ducats.
Blanca left only with a population of people 5 , due to the forced exodus of its inhabitants. Back in the Golden Century of Murcia, eighteenth century, Blanca began to recover its loss of the population, moving from inhabitants in to in , according to the Census Floridablanca. The present church dedicated to St.
John the Evangelist was rebuilt at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century by the stonecutter brothers Lucas and Antonio de la Lastra. The building was finished in the year Nine years later, the Kingdom of Murcia is hit by an epidemic of yellow fever, and Blanca was elected by the Chapter of the Cathedral of Murcia as a refuge from the disease, and through the intercession of St.
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Roch the fever did not reach Blanca, according to tradition. Roch was named as the pattern of Blanca seeing the results of praying of the inhabitants from Blanca to him.
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In , the inhabitants arranged the building of a new bridge over the River Segura. In , a rural road was finished to connect the city with the railway station. In public lighting was installed. Also in , Blanca suffered several collapses from the hillsides being destroyed several buildings, including a home-hospital and shelter for the poor.
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The result was a complete change of the landscapes which motivated the construction of new houses and streets. During the twentieth century, the turbulent political and social periods were lived in the town with regularity as the rest of the region. The response of the left parties was an immediate development of the organization of trade unions and social organizations which in proclaimed a general strike in Murcia, with violent demonstrations in many locations.
The neighboring Cieza had to declare a state of war, and there were several deaths in Alguazas.
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The elections, which were won by a coalition of leftist parties called "The Popular Front", returned to cause violent altercations throughout the Region. This heralded the civil conflict that ended with the rise by a part of the army on 17 July of the same year. As in the rest of the country during these years there were isolated social crisis.
However, when it was the case then the most noticeable awareness was reflected in the attacks on convents and churches, such as the convent of "La Milagrosa" and the Parish of Blanca's church "San Juan Evangelista". As a result of this violence, Blanca missed a significant number of religious art, especially in religious imagery saved from the same attacks one of the most prestigious and appreciated image of the "Christ tied to the column" of a Salzillo style and authorship of Sanchez Tapia.
In March , the national side's troops occupied the city along with the rest of the region. From a demographic standpoint, the twentieth century has been a time of stagnation for Blanca. A century earlier it had 6, inhabitants, which same figure remains in the twenty-first century. Today, immigration is essential to maintain and increase this number.
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This is not surprising because the economy of the municipality at the beginning of the century was based on agriculture, esparto 10 and the sale of timber, what gradually disappeared with the advent of synthetic fibers. These circumstances and the closure of cannery industries and the abandonment of logging forced the emigration of many local residents to other places.
Only agriculture, currently devoted to fruit and grapes, received a significant boost with the waters of the Tajo-Segura. However, Blanca's inhabitants do not surrender to adversity and fight together to face future times in a remarkable effort to develop their city. At present, there are eight religious groups in Blanca, of which the oldest ones are:. The Brotherhood of the Agony in the Garden carried the image of the Virgin of Sorrows to the Good Friday procession in , and this was three years later after the foundations of this brotherhood.
It is worth mentioning, the traditional Bid of Images that shows the emotion of the Blanca's inhabitants to pay for carrying on their shoulders the chosen image. In August Blanca celebrates its summer festivities and again in honor of their patron Saint Roche.
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Here the decor changes, now they deal with the sweet bread la mona and the bulls. After his arrival in the Iberian Peninsula, white received the invitation from the King of Aragon, Pedro IV , reach through the Kingdom of Valencia, Castile since Aragon roads were worse off and the climate was colder, but the Princess rejected the offer and took the shortest route to get to Valladolid. So she was received in the aforementioned city by her future mother-in-law, the 25 February The situation with the passing of the days was more delicate, since the members of the retinue of Princess began to make public their protests before the misconduct committed against the French King.
This meant that Juan Alfonso de Alburquerque out personally to seek the King in these moentos was in Torrijos, he reluctantly agreed to March to Valladolid to celebrate the projected marriage.
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Sitges in his work the women of King don Pedro I, said that the real reason that prompted Pedro I was a confession of his wife, which had knowledge of the economic plight in which the King of France was and that made it difficult to make the payment of the dowry of Blanca effectivePedro felt deceived and immediately repudiated it. White in these months, maintained a wide correspondence with Pope Innocent VI , which became a champion of their cause and encouraged it to keep his composure.
The marriage of the King with Juana de Castro in April , did more than worsen their situation, since his tenure at Castilian lands could be dangerous for the King, as many nobles, in an attempt to shake off the real power, began to support their cause; not to mention that the Pope who upon learning of new nuptials started the paperwork excommunicating Pedro I. The arrival of the half-brother of the King, don Fadrique, Toledo and his tenure next to white at the alcazar, has motivated that many authors have speculated on a possible romance between them, which could have had as a result the birth of Afonso Henriques , which was recognized by this, although he never revealed the name of his mother against his usual with other sons of bastards.
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