Fuendetodos
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| Fuendetodos | |
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| Coordinates: 41°20′36″N 0°51′31″W / 41.34333°N 0.85861°WCoordinates: 41°20′36″N 0°51′31″W / 41.34333°N 0.85861°W | |
| Country |  Spain |
| Autonomous community |  Aragon |
| Province | Zaragoza |
| Comarca | Campo de Belchite |
| Judicial district | Zaragoza |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Joaquín Gimeno Salueña (PSOE) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 62.20 km2 (24.02 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 750 m (2,460 ft) |
| Population (2009) | |
| • Total | 169 |
| • Density | 2.7/km2 (7/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Fuendetodinos |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
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| Website | Official website |
Fuendetodos is a small town in the Campo de Belchite comarca, Aragon, Spain, located about 44 kilometers south-east of Zaragoza. It has a population of approximately 170.
The painter Francisco de Goya was born there in 1746. The artist's birth house and a museum dedicated to his work are located in the village. This town has nearly 25,000 visitors each year.
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[edit] Geography
Fuendetodos is located in the Aragonese comarca of Campo de Belchite, 44 km to the southwest of Zaragoza.
It has a population of 174 inhabitants (INE 2008).
[edit] History
The name of this town is due to theOldSource (the source of all) and was originally namedFuentedetodos. From the 14th century, the village was the domain of the family Fernandez de Heredia, known as the Count of Fuentes.
[edit] Economy
The population has traditionally engaged in rainfed agriculture and livestock of sheep and goats. For centuries, the stone quarries caracoleña, exclusive Fuendetodos and ice industry (he had 22 neverones or ice refrigerators sold mainly to markets Zaragoza) provided significant revenues to the people. Today it has become more important wind power production and all services associated with tourism (20,000 visitors annually).
[edit] Vegetation
Much of the town is covered with natural pine Pinus halepensis Aleppo, preserved for centuries belong to the Counts of Fuentes, later moving to municipal property. Holm oaks and dotted with hills testify prior presence of holm. Romeral the Mediterranean scrub, with plenty of black juniper, juniper of juniper, lavender, sage and other sclerophyllous shrubs, the territory is shared with kermes oak. Highlight the sickles, hooked rods and hooked rods, deep gorges carved into the hard limestone of the Jurassic and runoff, in which flora harbors a very surprising Fuendetodos dry environment, with deciduous forests hackberry, maple montpellier, turpentine and Choke, which can be found in five species of ferns.
[edit] Points of interest
[edit] Goya's birthplace and the Museum of Engraving
The birthplace of the great Spanish painter was built in the early 18th century. A few meters has been established Engraving Museum, opened in 1989, which displays the graphic work of Goya and everything connected with recording techniques.
[edit] Neverones
They are calledneverones refrigerators'orsome stone buildings 18th century where you stored the falling snow in winter to eating ice later in the summer. Today you can visit the remnants that remain inFuendetodos, although the best known isthe Culroya, it is the only one left whole.
[edit] Church of Our Lady of the Assumption
It was built in 18th century, but has had to be rebuilt in the 20th century after the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), a period in which it was destroyed. The baptismal font is still retained today, where Goya was baptized. Situated on the edge of town, there are four walls, as it was destroyed during the civil war.
[edit] Statue of Goya
In Fuendetodos you can find two statues dedicated to the painter. The first is a bronze bust of Goya on a base of three feet in height, blue jasper rough, extracted from quarries in Elbow.[disambiguation needed 
] This monument was designed in 1920 by Julio Antonio and paid by Ignacio Zuloaga and his friends Zaragoza. Below the inscription:AGOYA can read these words:For the spirit of the immortal artist, that the glory spread around the world, live in the town that gave birth. And below you can read:This monument erected Ignacio Zuloaga and his friends. October 19, 1920. The other sculpture is placed in front of his birthplace of 1978 (designed by José Gonzalvo Vives).
[edit] Moor Artwork
With this name are known the remains ofmedieval castle' of Fuendetodos. Despite its popular name, was built after the reconquest by the Christians 13th century, built in mud and located in the west. Since its abandonment and reuse as a quarry for the construction of the church of Our Lady of the Assumption in the eighteenth century, it took its towers and walls for barns and stables. A farmhouse built in the 70 over part of the castle is becoming Fuendeverde Nature Area.
[edit] ARTEfuendetodos Gallery
Meeting point for artists and lovers of the art and their four exhibition rooms you can see works of great masters of modern art.
[edit] The Val
On the outskirts of town, next to pig farms, there is a small utility room.
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