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The flooded old village and Jesús Moncada

Mequinenza, Bajo Cinca, Zaragoza

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The flooded old village and Jesús Moncada

Historical milestone · Mequinenza, Bajo Cinca, Zaragoza

Image of Mequinenza, not of the place itself.

The dams of Mequinenza and Riba-roja, built between 1957 and 1974, made it necessary to demolish the old town and move the residents to a new town. The writer Jesús Moncada turned that disappearance into literary material in Camino de sirga.

1957-1974

Photo: Jordi Domènech i Arnau (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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