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Labor de Albaidel
The city of Albacete has long based its economy on agriculture and livestock farming, as shown by the creation of its important fair, granted by Felipe V, which later became the current Albacete Fair.
This was due to the proliferation of agricultural and livestock farms scattered throughout the province.
Judging by its structure and distribution, the Labor Albaidel farm was a self-sufficient farm, thanks to the animals and crops it possessed.
Consultation of the documentary collection of the Provincial Archive of Albacete shows that in the mid-19th century there were up to 11 people living in the house of Albaidel. In the 1890 census there were 8 inhabitants and according to the 1893 tax census there were 3 pairs of mules for agricultural work. Pascual Madoz also mentions this farmhouse in his Geographical-Statistical-Historical Dictionary of 1850 as a farm in the province, within the jurisdiction of the courts of the district of Albacete, with a farmer with a pair of mules. All these data are a true reflection of the size and importance that this farmhouse had in the past and that nowadays it has more than 38 hectares of dry farming land and several outbuildings for agricultural, livestock and residential use that form an enclosed rectangular complex with corrals inside, keeping a uniform aesthetic with white walls, green doors and gabled roofs with Arabic tiles. All this makes the Casa de Albaidel one of the best examples of traditional architecture of great cultural and ethnographic value that transports the traveller back in time.