Capçanes

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Capçanes municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Catalonia
Province : Tarragona
Comarca : Priory (comarca)
Coordinates 41 ° 6 ′  N , 0 ° 47 ′  E Coordinates: 41 ° 6 ′  N , 0 ° 47 ′  E
Height : 238  msnm
Area : 22.5 km²
Residents : 398 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 17.69 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number  ( INE ): 43040
administration
Official language : Castilian , Catalan
Mayor : Jaume Ramon Pena Nolla
Website : www.capcanes.altanet.org

Capçanes is a Catalan municipality in the province of Tarragona in northeastern Spain . It is in the Comarca Priorat . Capçanes is located in a side valley of the Tarragona mountains and has 398 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019).

Geographical location

Capçanes is about 7 km south of Falset , 40 km west of Tarragona and about 160 km southwest of Barcelona .

economy

Important economic activity is the viticulture in the wine region Montsant . In 1933, a wine cooperative was founded in Capçanes to market the yields of the common vineyards more efficiently. After 50 years of barrel wine marketing, the company switched to grape marketing in 1980 and all oenological activities were discontinued. In the early 1990s, the Jewish community in Barcelona was looking for a producer of wine who complied with the strict Jewish dietary laws . The winery accepted the experiment and invested in technology and several sealable cellar compartments with their own tanks, barrels and equipment. Today the winery markets its Peraj Ha'abib from Garnacha, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cariñena in cities with a high proportion of residents of the Jewish faith worldwide, which are grown on vines up to 70 years old at 500 m above sea level. The American wine critic James Suckling included two of the cooperative's wines in the list of his 100 best Spanish wines in 2018.

Attractions

Monument to Carrasclet , who was born in the village, by Francesc Carulla i Serra.

Winegrowers' cooperative, founded in 1933, cf. Web links.

Sons and daughters of the place

Pere Joan Barceló i Anguera (1687–1741), known as Carrasclet ("coal seller ," alluding to his profession), guerrillero who fought on the side of the Habsburg Archduke Charles against the Bourbons in the War of the Spanish Succession and died in exile.

Web links

Commons : Capçanes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ Celler de Capçanes - an unusual story , accessed February 2, 2019
  3. ↑ James Suckling chooses two wines of Capçanes among the best 100 wines of Spain in 2018: OUR TOP 100 SPANISH WINES in 2018 !! , accessed February 2, 2019