Ejea de los Caballeros

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Ejea de los Caballeros municipality
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Coat of arms of Ejea de los Caballeros
Ejea de los Caballeros (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Aragon
Province : Zaragoza
Comarca : Cinco Villas
Coordinates 42 ° 8 ′  N , 1 ° 8 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 8 ′  N , 1 ° 8 ′  W
Height : 318  msnm
Area : 609.92 km²
Residents : 16,783 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 27.52 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 50600
Municipality number  ( INE ): 50095
administration
Mayor : Francisco Javier Lambán Montañés ( PSOE )
Website : www.aytoejea.es
San Salvador Church

Ejea de los Caballeros , located in the Spanish foothills of the Pyrenees in the middle of an important cereal-growing area, is a city in the province of Saragossa in the autonomous region of Aragón . Ejea is also the capital of the Comarca Cinco Villas ( Five Small Towns ). On January 1, 2019, the community had 16,783 inhabitants. It is located on the Río Arba . Ejea includes the places Bardenas, El Bayo, Farasdués, Pinsoro, Rivas, El Sabinar, Santa Anastasia and Valareña.

history

The place, which was settled before the turn of the century, and whose fertile plains were already used intensively in Roman times, was on the road from Caesaraugusta ( Saragossa ) to Pompaelo ( Pamplona ). In ancient times the city was called Segia (also Segla or Setia ) with a bishopric, to which the titular diocese of Segia goes back.

After the Moorish occupation, it was finally recaptured in 1105 under King Alfonso I (Aragón) and initially developed into a border fortress against the Moors.

Population development

1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1981 1991 2001 2009
5,271 5,861 7,829 8,666 9,652 9,604 11,242 14,777 15,842 15,337 16,048 17,331

economy

In 1959 the Canal de las Bardenas was built, which irrigates large areas.

Attractions

  • The fortified church of San Salvador , consecrated in 1222 in the Romanesque transition style with façade towers of different heights from the 14th and 15th centuries.
  • The fortified church of Santa Maria de la Corona , consecrated in 1174 .
  • The Nuestra Señora de la Oliva sanctuary with a statue of the Virgin Mary from the monastery of La Oliva .

sons and daughters of the town

Festivals

The central local festival is dedicated to the veneration of the local saint, Nuestra Señora de la Oliva . On June 24th, the festival of the patron saint John the Baptist is celebrated in a medieval way . Another local festival commemorates Election Day on January 14th , an event during the plague , when the townspeople voted to carry the Nuestra Señora de la Oliva around town to worship. Allegedly, the plague in Ejea de los Caballeros is said to have ended that day.

Town twinning

literature

  • Heinz Schomann: Art monuments of the Iberian Peninsula . Part I. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1996, p. 199.
  • Guide Total: Pirineo Aragonès . 3. Edition. Grupo Anaya, Madrid 2005, ISBN 84-9776-047-6 .

Web links

Commons : Ejea de los Caballeros  - 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).