Maella

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Maella municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Aragon
Province : Zaragoza
Comarca : Bajo Aragon-Caspe
Coordinates 41 ° 7 '  N , 0 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 7 '  N , 0 ° 8'  E
Height : 304  msnm
Area : 174.88 km²
Residents : 1,985 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 11.35 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 50710
Municipality number  ( INE ): 50152
administration
Mayor : Jesús Zenón Gil Ferrer ( PP )
Website : www.maella.es/home/

Maella is a Spanish municipality in the province of Zaragoza in the autonomous region of Aragón . It is located in the comarca Bajo Aragón-Caspe about 21 km southeast of Caspe on the Rio Matarraña and had 1985 inhabitants on January 1, 2019.

Maella

history

Maella battlefield

At Maella, the Battle of Maella between Carlist and Liberals took place in 1838 .

language

The municipality in the Franja de Aragón is bilingual. The original language is Catalan in its local Aragonese variant called Maellano.

Attractions

City Hall clock tower
Ermita de Santa Barbara
  • Town hall (Ayuntamiento) with the clock tower (Torre del Reloj), one of the rare examples of a civil tower in Aragon.
  • Ruins of the castle destroyed in the Carlist Wars in 1837.
  • The Church of Santa María, which has belonged to the Franciscan Order since 1610 .
  • San Esteban Church .
  • Hermitage of Santa Bárbara .
  • Birthplace of Pablo Gargallo .
  • Trapa Monastery of Santa Susana outside the village.

economy

The cultivation of peaches predominates in the municipality . In addition, olives , cereals and almonds are grown.

Town twinning

Personalities

The sculptor Pablo Gargallo (1881–1934) and the glass artist Antoni Pons i Cirac (1921–1998) come from Maella .

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).

Web links

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