Magacela

Panoramic view of the population located in the east of the mountain range

of the same name

Magacela is a municipality in the province of Badajoz in the Autonomous Community of Extremadura, it emerges in the north-west area of the La Serena region, belonging to the judicial district of Villanueva de la Serena. The town had its beginning in the castle and grew down the slope. Its origins date back to prehistory, as evidenced by a magnificent dolmen from the third millennium BC, located on the plain. The population was occupied in Muslim times and reconquered by the Master of the Order of Alcántara Frey Arias Pérez during the reign of Ferdinand III the Saint.