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At the beginning of the 20th century, Ascó had twenty oil mills working simultaneously. The considerable concentration of these industries was due to the fact [...]
At the beginning of the 20th century, Ascó had twenty oil mills working simultaneously. The considerable concentration of these industries was due to the fact [...]
With the expulsion of about 800 Moriscos by Philip II of Aragon (III of Castile) that occupied 154 houses, the Morisco period would end in [...]
From the second half of the 17th century, the Ascó snow well is the only one left in these areas. Located in the foundations of [...]
Ancestral home of the lineage of Salvador, with the family coat of arms on the façade, built from 1632. Here ended the walled section of [...]
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 [...]