Ejea de los Caballeros, Province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain

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🇪🇸 Ejea de los Caballeros is a town and municipality in the province of Zaragoza, part of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It is one of the five main towns in the Comarca de las Cinco Villas. The five villages are Ejea de los Caballeros itself, Sos del Rey Católico, Uncastillo, Sádaba and Tauste.

The town became part of the medieval Kingdom of Aragon in 1105 during the Spanish Reconquista, as Muslim rule in the region was receding.

Tourist Industry The town retains many medieval buildings, including: • The Romanesque church of Santa María de la Corona. It was renewed in 1649–1650. • The church of San Salvador, of the Romanesque-Gothic transition style. It has a 16th-century portal with Romanesque sculptures. • The church of our Lady the Virgin of the Olive (Nuestra Señora la Virgen de la Oliva), renovated in 1765 over a pre-existing medieval building.

Villages The municipality of Ejea de los Caballeros comprises nine different centres of population: • Ejea de los Caballeros • Bardenas • El Bayo • El Sabinar  • Farasdués  • Pinsoro • Rivas • Santa Anastasia • Valareña

Rivas and Farasdués are two historic villages that have been dependencies of Ejea for decades. The other six centres were built in the 1950s and 1960s in order to settle inhabitants and farmers to grow irrigation crops, following the construction of the Yesa Reservoir and Bardenas irrigation channel that brought water to these villages, among others (Sádaba, Tauste, and others).

Culture The main local festival honours the Virgin of the Olive, the local saint. In June, there is also a medieval celebration for the patron saint, Saint John the Baptist.

Another local festival commemorates The Vote Day (January 14), an event during the Black Plague in which the townsfolk voted for the bringing of the Virgin of the Olive across the town to worship her. The plague is purported to have ended in the town that day.

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Ejea de los Caballeros has a population of over 17,180 people. Ejea de los Caballeros also forms part of the wider Cinco Villas Comarca which has a population of over 33,584 people. It is also a part of the larger Zaragoza Province. Ejea de los Caballeros is situated 71 km north of Zaragoza.

Twin Towns, Sister Cities Ejea de los Caballeros has links with:

🇫🇷 Marmande, France 🇮🇹 Portogruaro, Italy
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Antipodal to Ejea de los Caballeros is: 178.833,-42.25

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Antipodal to: Ejea de los Caballeros 178.833,-42.25

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🇳🇿 Upper Hutt 175.05,-41.133 d: 19677.3  

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