Alcalá de Ebro
Alcalá de Ebro municipality | ||
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Alcalá de Ebro - Iglesia de la Santísima Trinidad
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coat of arms | Map of Spain | |
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Basic data | ||
Autonomous Community : | Aragon | |
Province : | Zaragoza | |
Comarca : | Ribera Alta del Ebro | |
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 | |
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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
- Alcalá de Ebro, church etc. - photo + information (Spanish)
- Alcalá de Ebro, Sancho Pansas Memorial - Photo
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Alcalá de Ebro - climate tables
- ↑ Alcalá de Ebro - population development
- ↑ Alcalá de Ebro - History