Editing Reus (section)

=== 19th and 20th centuries ===
[[File:FrancoenReus.jpg|right|250px|thumb|[[Francisco Franco]] in Reus, 1940]]
In 1854 the [[Reus Gas Company]] was founded. In 1856 the railway between Reus and Tarragona was built. In 1884 the [[Catalan Association of Reus]] was founded and in 1893 was celebrated the Assembly of the [[Unió Catalana]]. In 1886 [[Pau Font de Rubinat]] founded the Catalan newspaper ''[[Lo Somatent]]''. In 1895 the [[phylloxera]] killed big areas of [[vineyards]] in the region of Reus and many of these areas switched to growing [[hazelnuts]].

In 1931 Reus voted for the [[Second Spanish Republic|republic]]. In 1936 [[Francisco Franco]] bombed the city until his rebel army occupied the city on 15 January 1939, starting with the dictatorship of Franco until his death in 1975.

The first democratic mayor after Franco was [[Carles Martí Massagué]], lawyer of Reus. In 1983 [[Anton Borrell Marcó]] was the new mayor of the city, but he died in a car accident on the road from Reus to Cambrils, then his successor was [[Juan Maria Roig]]. After him, [[Josep Abelló Padró]] was the mayor until 1999, replaced by [[Lluís Miquel Pérez Segura]], who occupied the position until 2011, when the current mayor, [[Carles Pellicer i Punyed]], started.