Caspe, Aragon Sea capital, is a historic town dating back to the second millennium BC. In its surroundings there are a hundred archaeological sites that mark its distant past.
In the early centuries there devotions Roman and hand your male apostolic San Indalecio.
It was in 1169 when Alfonso II Complete this city in the Crown of Aragon and in 1182 when give it to the Order of St. John, the owner of the villa to the confiscation of the last century.
Caspe was important place in the Wars with Catalonia, besieged in the Carlists, and slaughtered in the last calendar call. It has been visited by kings and popes and prominent place of passage because of its geographical location.
Possibly this strategic situation allowed him to be chosen as the seat of an Extraordinary Parliament involving the Kingdoms of the Crown of Aragon to choose successor to Martin I. In a time when it was normal to elucidate the dynastic quarrels by arms, here we opted for sanity: the Caspe.
For two months nine commissioners, three from each kingdom, were assembled in Caspe receiving ambassadors and hearing the arguments of the suitors to reign. Here is imposed reason over force and the Spanish House in the person Transtamare of Ferdinand I, began its presence in the Crown of Aragon.
Another milestone as regional headquarters is its participation in the Statute of Aragon 1936 and hosted the Council of Aragon, first Autonomous Government in Republican Spain. His sense Aragon, autonomous and rule of justice and reason, marks his future to the globalization of the third millennium.
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