Editing La Jonquera (section)

==History==
The area has always been an important passage through the [[Pyrenees]]. The contemporary AP-7 highway extends not far from the ancient Roman road, the Via Augusta. Nearby there is an altar erected by Pompey on the Coll de Panissars. The name comes precisely from the Roman mansion of Iuncaria, which is not located under the current population but several kilometers away, in [[Figueres|Figueras]].6

La Junquera was the scene of a conflict involving retreating French [[Crusades|crusaders]] in 1285 that ended in their defeat.

From the 13th century until the end of the [[Manorialism|manorial]] regime, in the mid-19th century, it was the possession of the Rocabertí family. The Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) placed the new border between the Spanish and French [[Monarchies in Europe|monarchies]] in the Albera mountain range, a fact that marked the subsequent history of La Junquera.