Ontiñena
Ontiñena municipality | ||
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Saint Maria Church (13th century)
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coat of arms | Map of Spain | |
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Basic data | ||
Autonomous Community : | Aragon | |
Province : | Huesca | |
Comarca : | Bajo Cinca | |
Coordinates | 41 ° 41 ′ N , 0 ° 5 ′ E | |
Height : | 215 msnm | |
Area : | 136.60 km² | |
Residents : | 518 (Jan 1, 2019) | |
Population density : | 3.79 inhabitants / km² | |
Postal code : | 22232 | |
Municipality number ( INE ): | 22165 | |
administration | ||
Mayor : | Angel Torres Mur ( PP ) |
Ontiñena is a municipality in the province of Huesca in the autonomous community of Aragon in Spain . It is located in the Comarca Bajo Cinca on the right bank of the Río Alcanadre and at the foot of the Sierra de Ontiñena.
history
The place was given to the monastery of Sigena in 1194 by King Alfonso II of Aragon .
Ontiñena was the planned construction site of the controversial major project announced in 2007 for the construction of the gigantic amusement and casino park Gran Scala with a planned investment of 17 billion euros, which was supported by the government of the Autonomous Region of Aragón and should be implemented from 2009. In 2010, however, there were clear doubts about the consortium's seriousness. The project finally failed in February 2012 when the investors did not realize their purchase options as contractually agreed and thus let the final deadline for acquiring the project land pass. The plots went back to their old owners.
Population development since 1900
1900 | 1910 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1981 | 1986 | 1992 | 1999 | 2004 | 2005 |
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1,827 | 1,883 | 1,582 | 1,281 | 1,135 | 1,041 | 875 | 722 | 752 | 751 | 651 | 623 | 621 |
Attractions
- the single-nave Gothic parish church of Santa María la Mayor with a late Romanesque west portal and polygonal apse
- the hermitage of San Gregorio; the Virgen del Pilar hermitage was burned down during the Spanish Civil War and later demolished
- various archaeological sites from Roman times
Web links
- Website of the Municipality of Ontiñena
- Ontiñena on Foro-Ciudad.com
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).
- ↑ a b Otro Las Vegas que se esfuma , El País from February 25, 2012 (Spanish)
- ↑ Ute Müller: A new Las Vegas is to be built in the desert. In: The world. December 11, 2007, accessed February 23, 2015 .
- ^ Leo Wieland : New amusement park - Eldorado in the Spanish steppe. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 19, 2008, accessed February 23, 2015 .
- ^ The big bankruptcy , Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 17, 2010