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The Carlist siege of Ripoll

Ripoll, Ripollès, Girona

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The Carlist siege of Ripoll

Historical milestone · Ripoll, Ripollès, Girona

Image of Ripoll, not of the place itself.

The Carlist troops stormed and burned on 27 May 1839 much of the town in the First Carlist War; the population fell from some three thousand two hundred inhabitants to around a thousand and the iron industry never recovered.

27 de mayo de 1839

Photo: Jordi Iparraguirre (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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