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Albelda is granted town status

Albelda, La Litera, Huesca

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Albelda is granted town status

Historical milestone · Albelda, La Litera, Huesca

Image of Albelda, not of the place itself.

Philip IV raised to town status in 1629 the place that had been a seigneury of the counts of Urgell in the 13th and 14th centuries and afterwards of the Peralta family, and that came to be governed by lesser noble families such as the Sangenís and the Cudós.

1629

Photo: Francisco Martinez Arias from Monzon, España (CC BY 2.0)

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