Alcalá de Ebro

Alcalá de Ebro municipality
Alcalá de Ebro - Iglesia de la Santísima Trinidad
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Zaragoza
Comarca :	Ribera Alta del Ebro
Coordinates	41 ° 49 ′  N , 1 ° 12 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 49 ′  N , 1 ° 12 ′  W
Height :	223  msnm
Area :	9.87 km²
Residents :	246 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	24.92 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	50691
Municipality number  ( INE ):	50013
administration
Website :	Alcalá de Ebro

Alcalá de Ebro is a northern Spanish city and a municipality ( municipio ) with 246 inhabitants (at January 1, 2019) in the province of Zaragoza in the autonomous community of Aragon .

Location and climate

Alcalá de Ebro is located on the Ebro River about 34 kilometers (driving distance) northwest of the city of Saragossa at an altitude of about 225  m . The small town of Alagón is just under twelve kilometers to the southeast. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 390 mm / year) falls throughout the year with the exception of the summer months.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	304	388	575	296	270

The mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the associated loss of jobs led to a decline in the population ( rural exodus ) in the second half of the 20th century .

economy

For centuries, the residents of the village lived directly (as day laborers) or indirectly (as traders or craftsmen) from agriculture. They worked the lands of the regional landlord family , which belonged to the Luna house for a long time , as well as their own small fields and gardens. From the 17th to the 20th century, salt was produced with the help of a graduation tower.

history

In Moorish times , a castle ( Arabic القلعة, al Qalʿa = "castle", "fortress") a ford on the Ebro or the place, which however only flourished for a short time after the conquest of the city of Saragossa in 1118 by the Aragonese king Alfonso I. The East and Central Spanish Way of St. James , which joined the Camino Francés near Burgos , led along the Ebro . Miguel de Cervantes wrote the second part of his Don Quixote near Alcalá , which here appointed his servant Sancho Panza governor of a river island called Barataria .

Attractions

• The main attraction of the place is the double-towered Baroque parish church (Iglesia de la Santísima Trinidad) from the 17th century, the crossing area of which is elevated by a lantern-topped dome . The apse contains a churrigueresque altarpiece with twisted columns ; Several baroque images of saints hang on the walls.
• On the river bank outside the village, a bronze statue commemorates Sancho Pansa, the rural Gobernador de la insula de Barataria .
• A decommissioned building with an attached graduation house is reminiscent of the salt production that was once operated here.

Web links

Commons : Alcalá de Ebro  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alcalá de Ebro, church etc. - photo + information (Spanish)
• Alcalá de Ebro, Sancho Pansas Memorial - Photo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
2. ↑ Alcalá de Ebro - climate tables
3. ↑ Alcalá de Ebro - population development
4. ↑ Alcalá de Ebro - History