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The
most western lands of the province served historically as
frontier between the Kingdom of Castile, Navarra, Aragon
and the Muslim Kingdom. As a result, their main cities benefit
from a very rich and varied patrimony.
The
district of the Five Villas is located at the north and
it starts up in the first valleys of the low Pyrenees. These
five towns are Tauste, Sádaba, Uncastillo, Ejea de los caballeros
(of the gentlemen) and Sos del rey católico (of the Catholic
King). It is an area of orchards, and cereal fields which
offer good yields.
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Tarazona
is located at the foot of the Moncayo, the dominant peak of the
Iberian mountain range (2.300 meters high), and whose common meadow
is a protected Natural Park, a space of great beauty and ecological
value. The city functioned as defence post for the west of the
community and it keeps treasures that remind us of their Roman,
Arabic, Jewish and Christian past.
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The
Natural Park of the Monasterio de Piedra (Monastery of Stone),
20 kilometres away from Calatayud, contains the waterfalls
of the river Piedra and it is one of the most beautiful
places in Spain. The Cistercian Monastery is a National
Monument and it harbours the Museum of the Wine of the Certificate
of Origin of Calatayud.
The
cultivation of the vine has a great tradition in the province,
proved by the Certificates of Origin awarded to the wines
of Cariñena, Field of Borja and Calatayud.
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Monastery
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Following
the river up from the capital, in the so-called ' Corridor of
the Ebro', the main industrial area of Aragon is located, a net
of supplying companies which extends around the factory of Opel
in Figueruelas.
Caspe,
the historical city where the Treaty that united the Crowns of
Aragón and Castile in 1412 was signed, is the main city East of
Zaragoza; it centralises the activity of an area of hard climate,
of poor non-irrigated land agriculture, only mitigated by the
orchards in the riverside of the Ebro.
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