Calaceite

Calaceite parish
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Teruel
Comarca :	Matarraña
Coordinates	41 ° 1 ′ N , 0 ° 11 ′ E Coordinates: 41 ° 1 ′ N , 0 ° 11 ′ E
Height :	511 msnm
Area :	81.33 km²
Residents :	994 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	12.22 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	44610
Municipality number ( INE ):	44049
administration
Official language :	spanish and catalan
Mayor :	Rosa Domènech ( PSOE )
Website :	www.calaceit.com

The town hall

Iberian settlement of San Antonio

Calaceite ( Catalan : Calaceit ) is a Spanish municipality in the province of Teruel in the Autonomous Region of Aragón . It is located in the western foreland of the Ports de Tortosa-Beseit in the Comarca Matarraña (Matarranya) in the predominantly Catalan-speaking area of the Franja de Aragón between the Rio Matarraña and the and Río Algars on the border with Catalonia . On January 1, 2019, the community had 994 inhabitants.

Toponymy

The name of the community is derived from the Arabic qala'a Zayd, قلعة زيد , fortress of the Said (cf. the nearby Beceite ).

history

The thymiaterion from calaceite

The place is rich in historical monuments, including Stone Age cave drawings and a grave from the Copper Age . A Bronze Age settlement with burial mounds was also excavated. From the Iberian era, the settlement of San Antonio was excavated around one kilometer south of the town between 1903 and 1919. In the necropolis of Llano de les Ferreres was a thymiaterion that in the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid is kept.

During the Reconquista , the place, which was under Moorish rule, was first conquered in 1132 by Alfonso I of Aragón and finally around 1168. In 1271 the rule came to the order of Calatrava , who summoned new settlers. In 1442 Calaceite came to the Bishop of Tortosa . In the War of the Spanish Succession , the troops of Philip IV of Spain forcibly took the place that his opponent, the pretender to the throne Carlos III. supported. In 1823 the reign of the Bishop of Tortosa was shaken off. On July 25, 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, Republican troops from Barcelona occupied the place and fighting broke out. In the spring of 1938 the conquest by Francoist troops took place, after which some of the residents went into exile in France . The decline of olive cultivation led to further migration.

Residents

Development of the population
1900	1920	1940	1960	1981	2000	2006	2013
2641	3027	1930	1742	1432	1193	1143	1106

economy

The main source of income is agriculture (mainly dry fields with olives, almonds and viticulture , as well as cattle and pig breeding and small animal breeding). The insignificant industry is based on the refinement of agricultural products (oil mills, vinegar production).

traffic

Calaceite is on national road 420, from which the A-1413 road branches off to Cretas to the south .

Attractions

Baroque portal of the church

The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, listed as a historical monument since 2001, in the Renaissance style.

Personalities

Felipe Abás Aranda, Calaceite 1777– Madrid 1813, painter
José Galindo Vidiella, Calaceite 1820–1879, Carlist politician, president of the Diputación del Reino de Aragón.
Saturnina Jassa y Fontcuberta, Calaceite 1851– Tortosa 1936, co-founder of the Congregation Compañía de Santa Teresa de Jesús.
Alejandro García Fontcuberta, Calaceite 1869– Hải Phòng (Vietnam) 1933, Bishop and Apostolic Vicar of Hải Phòng.
Lorenzo Insa Celma, Calaceite 1874– Tortosa 1936, rector of the seminaries in Cordoba and Saragossa , killed in the civil war, venerated as a martyr.

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).

Web links

Commons : Calaceite - Collection of Images

[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).