Ontiñena

Ontiñena municipality
	Saint Maria Church (13th century)
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Huesca
Comarca :	Bajo Cinca
Coordinates	41 ° 41 ′ N , 0 ° 5 ′ E 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
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

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

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

[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).

[el_pais-2] Otro Las Vegas que se esfuma , El País from February 25, 2012 (Spanish)

[3] Ute Müller: A new Las Vegas is to be built in the desert. In: The world. December 11, 2007, accessed February 23, 2015 .

[4] Leo Wieland : New amusement park - Eldorado in the Spanish steppe. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 19, 2008, accessed February 23, 2015 .

[5] The big bankruptcy , Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 17, 2010