Ejea de los Caballeros

Ejea de los Caballeros; Exeya d'os Caballers; is a town and municipality in the province of Zaragoza, part of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It is one of the five main towns in the Comarca de las Cinco Villas . The five villages are Ejea de los Caballeros itself, Sos del Rey Católico, Uncastillo, Sádaba and Tauste.They became part of the medieval Kingdom of Aragon in 1105 during the Spanish Reconquista, as Muslim rule in the region was falling back.Main sightsThe town retains many medieval buildings, including: the Romanesque church of Santa María de la Corona. It was renewed in 1649-1650.church of San Salvador (Romanesque-Gothic transition style). It has a 16th-century portal with Romanesque sculpturesChurch of our Lady the Virgin of the Olive (Nuestra Señora la Virgen de la Oliva), renovated in 1765 over a pre-existing medieval buildingVillagesThe municipality of Ejea de los Caballeros comprises nine different centres of population: Ejea de los Caballeros Pinsoro Rivas Santa Anastasia Valareña Rivas and Farasdués are two historic villages that have been dependencies of Ejea for decades. The other six centres were built in the nineteen fifties and sixties in order to settle inhabitants and farmers to grow irrigation crops because of the building of Yesa reservoir and Bardenas irrigation channel that brought water to this villages, among others (Sádaba, Tauste and others).