Zafra

Zafra is a town arranged in the Province of Badajoz, and the capital of the comarca of Zafra. It has a populace of 16,677, as indicated by the 2011 evaluation. Zafra is the main residence of Fray Ruy Lopez, creator of one of the principal European treatises on chess, and the humanist and arbitrist Pedro de Valencia. Human hints of extraordinary artifact have been found in the zone. In the "El Castellar" mountains are found caverns with pictograms. Additionally, a fortress dating to the Bronze Age was found in the adjacent house of prayer of Belen.

Zafra has been related with the Roman names Restituta Iulia Imperial, Contributa Iulia Ugultunia, and Segida Restituta Iulia, however this applies similarly to a portion of alternate towns in the area. The name Contributa Julia shows up on a 1849 map of Roman Hispania nearby the name Regina by and by related with the vestiges of a little Roman town of a similar name. Zafra has dependably been a mechanical and business city, serving encompassing regions for the most part devoted to agribusiness. A business base are the fairs that have been praised for Saint John since 1395 and for Saint Michael since 1453.