Village
Gallur is a frontier town in the comarca of Ribera Alta del Ebro, in the province of Zaragoza, with 2,642 inhabitants (INE 2025), set at 254 metres above sea level between the Ebro and the Canal Imperial de Aragón, opposite the mouth of the río Arba. Its name comes from the Latin Pagus Gallorum, a settlement of Gauls in Roman times. Reconquered in 1119 by Alfonso I of Aragón, the Battler, and resettled with Mozarabs from Zaragoza and Andalusia, its territory saw a battle fought in 1147 between the Navarrese king García Ramírez the Restorer and Ramon Berenguer IV, and in 1209 Peter II of Aragón handed over the castle and the town as security for a loan to Sancho VII of Navarre. Its festivals of San Pedro Apóstol include the dance of Gallur, Fiesta de Interés Turístico de Aragón (a festival recognised as being of tourist interest in Aragón).
Monument
Parish church of San Pedro Apóstol, in Gallur, one of the most populous municipalities of the Ribera Alta del Ebro. It is a Neoclassical temple built between 1750 and 1773, with a single nave divided into four bays covered with lunette vaults and side chapels. It preserves a choir organ, several altarpieces, murals in the chapel of the Virgen de los Dolores and an 18th-century image of Christ. The first level of the tower comes from the vanished castle that previously occupied the site.
Activity
Festivities of Gallur in honour of San Pedro Apóstol, from 28 June to 1 July, with the dance of Gallur, declared of tourist interest of Aragón, bull runs over the Puente de Hierro and the procession of the Rosario de Cristal. From 12 to 15 June San Antonio de Padua is celebrated, a feast recalling the disappearance of a locust plague.
Monument
Hermitage in the municipal district of Gallur, a border town that in 1209 the king of Aragón handed over as security for a loan to the Navarrese monarch, having already been the scene in 1147 of a clash between Navarrese and Catalan forces.
Nature
The Ebro flows through Gallur, a town that in 1209 the king of Aragón handed over as security for a loan to the monarch of Navarre, having already been the scene in 1147 of a clash between Navarrese and Catalan troops.
Monument
The historic centre of Gallur preserves the memory of the town through which, in the 20th century, the narrow-gauge railway to Sádaba ran — now partly converted into a greenway — and whose fertile lowlands produce the white asparagus typical of the Ribera Alta del Ebro.
Monument
The bridge over the Ebro in Gallur gives access to the town that in 1209 the king of Aragón handed over as security for a loan to the Navarrese monarch, having already been the scene in 1147 of a clash between Navarrese and Catalan troops.
Activity
Gallur's winter festival is held in the town that in 1209 the king of Aragón handed over as security for a loan to the Navarrese monarch; its fertile valley, irrigated by the Canal Imperial, produces the white asparagus typical of the region.
Historical milestone
In 1209 the king of Aragon requested a loan from the Navarrese monarch and handed over as security the castle and the villa of Gallur, situated on the frontier line between the two kingdoms. Already in 1147 the stronghold had been the scene of a clash between Navarrese and Catalans.
Historical milestone
A narrow-gauge railway, of metre gauge, built in 1915, at the beginning of the 20th century, which linked Sádaba, at the northern end of the Cinco Villas, with Gallur, where it joined the general network of Iberian gauge, in the Ebro valley. It was laid to transport the comarca's agricultural production and expand its railway market, and contributed to the development of the sugar, cereal and flour-milling industry brought about by the increase in production after the construction of the Bardenas canal. The lack of interoperability with the general network and competition from roads, improved in the 1960s, caused it to lose traffic until it was closed on 8 July 1970; its route is partly preserved as a greenway.
Food and drink
The loose soils irrigated by the Imperial Canal give in Gallur hand-harvested white asparagus, which is eaten fresh in spring or destined for preserving. It is served with vinaigrette or in batter, and forms part of the seasonal menus of the comarca.