Fabara

Fabara municipality
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Zaragoza
Comarca :	Bajo Aragon-Caspe
Coordinates	41 ° 10 ′ N , 0 ° 10 ′ E Coordinates: 41 ° 10 ′ N , 0 ° 10 ′ E
Height :	242 msnm
Area :	101.63 km²
Residents :	1,125 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	11.07 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	50793
Municipality number ( INE ):	50102
administration
Mayor :	Francisco Javier Domenech Villagrasa ( PSOE )

Fabara ( Catalan Favara de Matarranya or Favara ) is a Spanish municipality in the comarca of Bajo Aragón-Caspe in Aragon . The municipality is located on the Matarraña River .

language

The place is bilingual like the whole of the Franja de Aragón ; The original language is Catalan in the local vernacular of Fabarol, which is influenced by numerous substrates of Aragonese and Castellanisms .

history

Settlement goes back to 5000 BC. BC back. El Roquizal del Rullo is the most important Iron Age settlement in Aragón. The mausoleum of Lucius Emilius Lupo, declared a Monumento nacional in 1931, has been preserved from the time of the Roman conquest .

After the Moorish conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, Berbers from the Hawwara tribe (French: Houara) lived in Fabara, from which the place derives its name. After the Reconquista , the place was under the rule of the Order of Calatrava until 1428 .

economy

Almost half of the resident population (45.3%) works in agriculture (INE 2001).

Attractions

Roman mausoleum

El Roquizal del Rullo ( Lo Roquissal del Rullo ): Remains of an Iberian village, four kilometers from the center on the Río Algars
Roman mausoleum
Fabara Town Hall, built on the walls of the medieval palace of the Princess of Belmonte
Gothic parish church of San Juan Bautista
Hermitage of Santa Bárbara

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).

literature

J. Cabré: Excavaciones en el Roquizal del Rullo, término de Fabara, provincia de Zaragoza, dirigidas por don Lorenzo Perez Temprado , Madrid 1929
Salvador Melguizo Aísa: Mausoleo de Fabara , Prames, Zaragoza 2005

Web links

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

[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).