|
Data of the Town |
Cascante |
|
Town |
Locality: Cascante |
|
Municipality / council |
Merindad: Tudela / Region: Tudela |
|
Province |
Navarre |
|
Community |
Navarrese Jurisdiction |
|
inhabitants 2003 |
3906 |
|
|
Town hall |
|
Direction |
Pl. of the Jurisdictions, 1 |
|
ZIP code |
31520 |
|
Phones |
948-851450 |
|
Fax |
948-850209 |
|
Office Tourism |
To contact with telf. quoted |
|
Official web |
Cascante |
|
Web of Interest |
Cascante, medieval history, the juderial |
|
E-mail municipality |
ayuntamiento@cascante.com |
She is a population with big importance historical and artistic much visited by a quality tourism. it finds on the banks of the river Quiles. The church of the Asunción is one building of style Reyes Católicos of the XVIth century reconstructed after to suffer a fire in 1939 that the ancient front preserves. Gothic - Renaissance church of the Victory, which was part of ancient convent of the Minimums, was constructed at the end of the century XVI. Between his civil buildings they emphasize some stately houses noble and some palaces of the XVIIIth century of typical structure of the area: three brick bodies and the last one with gallery of arches. In his municipal term the Sanctum is of Ours Lady of the Rosemary, baroque building of the ends of the XVII.th century
Cascantum", it was one of the stages - mentioned for Antonino - of the Roman route that was joining Tarragona with Astorga. Tito Livio considered it to be a Celtiberian city when it was devastated for Sertorio (76 B.C.). Ptolomeo includes it between the cities vasconas.
I mint coins earlier and during the romanización, surviving in wine vault copies of the Expert and Semis Ibéricos and Romans.
It was a center of vital interest, remembered today by the names Roman in his streets (the Sun, Moon, Tiberio) and the legend of his shield "Civitas Cascantum Municipium Romanorum".
Cascante has an extensive history throughout more than 2000 years, with a strong tradition in the cultivation of the vineyards. It had problems with the King of Navarre in the XIVth as the excess of production of wine. At the beginning of the XIXth century it was provided with 210 particular wine vaults.
On having started a vineyard of the property, a Roman amphora appeared vinaria of the IIIrd century that survives in the wine vault.
Cascante for centuries had a flourishing Jewry or mosque. Going so far as to be provided with more than eighty families in the XIVth century
Cascante is located in the apex of the triangle of the Monasteries Cistercians of Tulebras, Fitero and Veruela. The Cister penetrated in Iberian peninsula for the Kingdom of Navarre. Within a period of field called the Crosspiece, pilgrimage one comes annually in May in , and his origin is in the Cross placed in a high place for to keep the vineyards cascantinas. (Source, Wine vaults Guelbenzu it paginates of information).De form inenterrumpida for more than hundred fifty years the Guelbenzu cascantinos have kept on cultivating the vineyards