The main street is narrow and winding, like all the old streets in this small town, with strategic corners, an easy defence against any invader. [...]

The Battle of the Ebro represented the confrontation of the best military units of two great armies: the People’s Army of the Republic and [...]

THE HOSPITALLERS In the beginning of the 14th century, after the Order of the Temple abolition (1312), Ascó became a hospitaller encomienda under the [...]

In 1153 the Count Ramon Berenguer IV gave the Templars properties in Ascó. In 1175, Alfons I ceded them the Ascó castle. In 1182, [...]

THE ORIGINS In the 8th century, the Visigoths occupied all of the Iberian Peninsula under a sole kingdom with its capital in Toledo. They [...]

The castle of Ascó, located at the highest point of the town, was one of the main Andalusian squares on the Catalan Ebro, with [...]