ALMENDRALEJO  , a

town of western Spain, in the province of Badajoz; situated 27 M . E.S.E. of Badajoz, on the Merida-Seville railway . Pop . (1900) 12,587 . Almendralejo is a thriving town, with broad streets and good modern houses; including the palace of the marquesses of Monsalfid, which contains a museum of Roman antiquities discovered in the neighbourhood . Local prosperity was greatly enhanced during the period 1875–19o5 by the improvement of communications, which enabled the grain, fruit and wine of the Guadiana valley, on the north, and of the upland known as the Tierra de Barros, on the south, to be readily exported by the Merida-Seville railway . Brandy is produced in large quantities .