On March 29, 2015, the day after participating in the official launch of IAT Portugal at Naturtejo Geopark, IAT Chairperson Paul Wylezol and IAT Spain President Ruth Hernandez crossed the Ebro River into Extremadura to take a three day tour of IAT Spain.\u00a0\u00a0From there they traveled a short distance to Alc\u00e1ntara, where the world’s largest Roman bridge at 194m long and 71m high, crosses the Tagus River at the eastern end of the 25,088 hectare Tagus International Nature Park<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Alc\u00e1ntara\u00a0is derived from the Arabic word al-QanTarah,<\/em> meaning “the bridge”.\u00a0 It\u00a0was conquered by the North Africa Moors in the 8th century and ruled until their expulsion five centuries later.\u00a0 Other sites include the 16th century San Benito Monastery,\u00a0Church of Holy Mother of Almocobar, and the narrow streets and lanes\u00a0dating to the middle ages.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

For more on the story, go to the\u00a0IAT Website<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On March 29, 2015, the day after\u00a0participating in\u00a0the official launch of IAT Portugal at Naturtejo Geopark, IAT Chairperson Paul Wylezol and IAT Spain President Ruth Hernandez crossed the Ebro River\u00a0into\u00a0Extremadura to take a three day tour of IAT Spain.\u00a0\u00a0From there they traveled a short distance to Alc\u00e1ntara, where the world’s largest Roman bridge at 194m long and 71m high, crosses the Tagus River\u00a0at the eastern end of the 25,088 hectare Tagus International Nature Park.\u00a0\u00a0Alc\u00e1ntara\u00a0is derived from the Arabic word al-QanTarah, meaning “the bridge”.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/caboxgeopark.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Spain-IAT-Visit.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caboxgeopark.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caboxgeopark.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caboxgeopark.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caboxgeopark.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caboxgeopark.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/caboxgeopark.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4814,"href":"https:\/\/caboxgeopark.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/4814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caboxgeopark.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caboxgeopark.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caboxgeopark.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caboxgeopark.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}