Casas de Monleón

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Casas de Monle�n is small town in the province of Salamanca, Spain. Its inhabitants number fewer than fifty. It came into being several hundred years ago when settlers from the north of Spain repopulated the central ranges after the Reconquista expelled the Moors. The vegetation in the area consists of a mix of Atlantic and Mediterranean continental plant forms including such tree species as Holm oak, Quercus ilex; Pyrenean oak, Quercus pyrenaica; Lombard poplar, Populus nigra var. italica; and various pines. It has a warm, balmy summer with little rain, a very dreary and rainy winter, and fickle spring and autumn. It is in the Tajo (Tagus) river system with the stream Santa Mar�a passing nearby. Nearby towns include Endrinal de la Sierra, Monle�n, Los Santos, and the major meat-processing center, Guijuelo. It is at the of the Sierra de las Quilamas, a minor mountain range between the B�jar and Francia mountain ranges. It is situated fifty kilometers from Salamanca and about seventy from Ciudad Rodrigo. A short walk from the town are some Celtic ruins, mainly tombs carved into flat rocks, which folk culture, however, attributes to be their own ancestors' wine presses.