Qualla: Barony of Polop https://qualla.com/barony-of-polop en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:38:46 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Barony of Polop https://qualla.com/barony-of-polop Barony of Polop: Introduction https://qualla.com/barony-of-polop/ Benidorm draws millions to its beaches each year, but three and a half centuries ago it was a ruin, depopulated and half-destroyed, its very status as a town erased. The person who brought it back to life was not a king or a general but a baroness, and the lordship she held stretched back to a hilltop fortress that El Cid himself once occupied. The Barony of Polop and Benidorm is one of those threads of history that ties a package-holiday coast to the age of knights and Moorish castles, and it never entirely disappeared.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/g/barony-of-polop-wp/eyzg-barony-of-polop-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Barony of Polop: A Fortress Named Polop https://qualla.com/barony-of-polop/ The story begins with stone. When the Moors held the Iberian Peninsula, they raised a fortress on the heights a few miles inland from the sea and called it Polop. Its defensive value made it a prize for centuries. In 1089 and 1090, the Castilian warlord Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, rem...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/g/barony-of-polop-wp/eyzg-barony-of-polop-kings-concubines-and-contested-succession.mp3 0:06 3 full Barony of Polop: The Baroness Who Rebuilt Benidorm https://qualla.com/barony-of-polop/ In 1430 the barony came to the Fajardo de Mendoza family, in whose line it has remained ever since. Its most consequential holder was Dona Beatriz Fajardo de Mendoza y Guzman, who inherited a Benidorm that had crumbled to almost nothing, absorbed into Polop and stripped of its st...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/g/barony-of-polop-wp/eyzg-barony-of-polop-the-baroness-who-rebuilt-benidorm.mp3 0:06 4 full Barony of Polop: A Title That Never Died https://qualla.com/barony-of-polop/ Feudalism was supposed to end. The Spanish Abolition of Feudal Tenure Act of 1820 stripped lordships like Polop of their legal and juridical power, dissolving the old machinery of barons who could raise armies, hold courts, and levy dues. Yet the law preserved the dignity of the ...

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