Fuendetodos

Fuendetodos is a town in the Campo de Belchite comarca (county), in Aragon, Spain, located about 44 kilometers south-east of Zaragoza.

Fuendetodos is located in the Aragonese comarca of Campo de Belchite, 44 km to the south of Zaragoza.

From the 14th century, the village was part of the domain of the family of Fernandez de Heredia, known as the Count of Fuentes.

Goya also came to take refuge in Fuendetodos during the Second Siege of Zaragoza in 1809, since he was there making sketches to paint the destruction caused by Napoleonic troops.

During the Spanish Civil War, Fuendetodos passed from rebel hands to those of the republicans with the arrival of an anarchist column.

Goya's birth house remained a humble tourist place until its renovation in the late 1980s, with the arrival Joaquín Gimeno as mayor of the town.

For centuries, the stone quarries (caracoleña), exclusive to Fuendetodos, and the ice industry were important economic activities.

Romeral, the Mediterranean scrub, with plenty of black juniper, lavender, sage, and other sclerophyllous shrubs, share the territory with kermes oak.

These gorges harbor a surprising variety of flora given Fuendetodos' dry environment including: deciduous forests of hackberry, Montpellier maple, turpentine tree can be found as well as five species of fern.

Before the war, there were paintings in the Sacristy cupboard Goya produced when he was young and the baroque altarpiece gilded by his father.

The first is a bronze bust of Goya on a three-foot-high base of rough, blue jasper extracted from quarries in Codo.

Below the inscription A GOYA are the words: "For the spirit of the immortal artist, that the glory spread around the world, live in the town that gave birth."

Since being abandoned and then re-used as a source of stone for the construction of the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in the 18th century, its towers and walls were used by villagers as barns and stables.

Birth house of Francisco de Goya