The Town: Guareña.
 
The town of Guareña, with approximately  7.500 inhabitants, is at present one of the most representative towns in Lower Extremadura, and offers the visitors a peaceful, rural and hospitable environment.
Its church Santa María, pertaining to the Renaissance period with gothic reminiscence, of extraordinary proportions, raises magestically over the rest of the urban development organization of  farmer large houses of the XVI to XVIII centuries.  
It is also worthwhile visiting the Town Hall building, which rises not far away from the church, with its  façade with elegant and sober, classical design built in granite ashlar, its strong overhanging cornice tops out with Herrerian style round ornamental elements and its central atrium.
 
Its wide perpendicular and plain streets invite you to get lost in a peaceful walk being able to relax and breathe pure air under the Extremaduran blue sky, or to enjoy its "fiestas" and traditions.
 Popular Celebrities in Guareña:

Luis (Florencio) Chamizo Triguero. (Guareña 1894 - Madrid 1945)
Poet and writer, he spends most of his life far from his native Guareña, to which he never stops singing:

"¡How fertile the plain where my native
village is placed,
and how high, appears its hermitage to my eyes,
being so small!"
                                                                                                        (Nostalgias)
Member of "La Real Academia Sevillana de las Buenas Letras" since the 20's, he was honoured in Madrid for his play "Las Brujas". It is essential to mention, among his many lyric works, his "Nostalgias" and "El Miajón de Los Castúos".

Eugenio Frutos Cortés. (Guareña 1903 - Zaragoza 1979)
Highly appreciated philosopher, professor in Cáceres institute and Zaragoza university, he is famous as a poet having close relationship with "the 27 generation", collaborating in journals on nation-wide basis as "Litoral" and many other Extremaduran journals as "Alor" and "Génova".
He is in contact with the most important poets of his time: Alberti, Lorca, Gerardo Diego, as well as with his countryman Luis Chamizo, who was greatly influenced by him..
From his abundant philosophic works "La Convivencia Humana" and from his lyric works "La Sombra Revelada" and "La Viña Destruida" must be pointed out.

Angel Braulio Ducasse. ( ¿? - Guareña 1936)
He is a regular and engaged collaborator of the newspaper "HOY", published in 1930 his only poetic work named "Titirimundi sentimental, estampas rurales, íntimas y otros poemas". He is also the author of the book "Romance hecho a la manera popular", devoted to the Christ of the Waters, Patrón Saint of Guareña. 
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