Zafra
Zafra is a town of 17,000 people in Extremadura. Dominated by its 15th-century fortress Zafra is a pleasant town where you can take a stroll or hang out in one of its parks eating tapas while watching the world go by.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Antonio Fiol, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 16,400 residents
- Description: Spanish municipality
- Also known as: “06158”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castle of Zafra and Zafra train station.
Castle of Zafra
Castle
Photo: Alonso de Mendoza, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Palace of the Dukes of Feria or the Castle of Zafra is a Gothic castle in Zafra, Badajoz, Spain, founded in 1443. On June 3, 1931, during the Second Spanish Republic, it was declared a historical-artistic monument belonging to the National Treasury.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Puebla de Sancho Pérez and Los Santos de Maimona.
Puebla de Sancho Pérez
Village
Puebla de Sancho Pérez is a municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. It has a population of 2,880 and an area of 57 km2. Puebla de Sancho Pérez is situated 3½ km southeast of Zafra.
Los Santos de Maimona
Town
Photo: Mimileon021294, Public domain.
Los Santos de Maimona is a municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. It has an area of 108 km2. In 2018, the population was 8,126. Los Santos de Maimona is situated 4 km northeast of Zafra.
Zafra
- Categories: municipality of Spain and locality
- Location: Badajoz, Extremadura, Central Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
38.4253° or 38° 25′ 31″ northLongitude
-6.4194° or 6° 25′ 10″ westPopulation
16,400Elevation
444 metres (1,457 feet)Open location code
8CCMCHGJ+47OpenStreetMap ID
node 1470839581OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6356023Wikidata ID
Q140203
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Zafra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “صفراء، بطليوس”
- Arabic: “صفراء”
- Aragonese: “Zafra”
- Armenian: “Սաֆրա”
- Asturian: “Zafra”
- Basque: “Zafra”
- Breton: “Zafra”
- Catalan: “Zafra”
- Cebuano: “Zafra”
- Chechen: “Сафра”
- Chinese: “Zafra”
- Chinese: “萨夫拉”
- Czech: “Zafra”
- Dutch: “Zafra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “زعفرا (مدينه فى بطليوس)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صفراء”
- Esperanto: “Zafra”
- Extremaduran: “Çafra”
- French: “Zafra”
- Galician: “Zafra”
- Georgian: “საფრა”
- German: “Zafra”
- Greek: “Ζάφρα”
- Hebrew: “סאפרה”
- Hungarian: “Zafra”
- Interlingua: “Zafra”
- Irish: “Zafra”
- Italian: “Zafra”
- Japanese: “サフラ”
- Ladin: “Zafra”
- Lithuanian: “Zafra”
- Lombard: “Zafra”
- Luxembourgish: “Zafra”
- Macedonian: “Сафра”
- Malay: “Zafra”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Zafra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zafra”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Zafra”
- Persian: “سافرا”
- Polish: “Zafra”
- Portuguese: “Zafra”
- Romanian: “Zafra”
- Russian: “Сафра”
- Sardinian: “Zafra”
- Serbian: “Зафра”
- Slovenian: “Zafra”
- South Azerbaijani: “سافرا”
- Spanish: “Zafra”
- Swedish: “Zafra”
- Tatar: “Сафра”
- Turkish: “Zafra”
- Ukrainian: “Сафра”
- Urdu: “زعفرا”
- Uzbek: “Zafra”
- Venetian: “Zafra”
- Vietnamese: “Zafra”
- Waray (Philippines): “Zafra”
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