Editing Gandesa

{{Infobox settlement
| name                     = Gandesa
| native_name              = 
| settlement_type          = [[Municipalities of Catalonia|Municipality]]
| image_skyline            = Gandesa - Portadalada de l'església arxiprestal.jpg
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| image_caption            = Church door, Gandesa
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| pushpin_map              = Spain Catalonia
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| pushpin_map_caption      = Location in Catalonia
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| subdivision_type         = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name         = {{flag|Spain}}
| subdivision_type1        = [[Autonomous communities of Spain|Community]]
| subdivision_name1        = {{flag|Catalonia}}
| subdivision_type2        = [[Provinces of Spain|Province]]
| subdivision_name2        = [[Province of Tarragona|Tarragona]]
| subdivision_type3        = [[Comarques of Catalonia|Comarca]]
| subdivision_name3        = [[Terra Alta (comarca)|Terra Alta]]
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| established_date         = 
| leader_party             = 
| leader_title             = Mayor
| leader_name              = Carles Luz Muñoz (2015)<ref name=municat>{{cite web|url=http://aplicacions.municat.gencat.cat/index.php?page=consulta&mostraEns=4306400000|title=Ajuntament de Gandesa|publisher=[[Generalitat of Catalonia]]|access-date=2015-11-13}}</ref>
| area_footnotes           = <ref name=idescat>{{cite web|url=http://www.idescat.cat/emex/?lang=en&id=430640|title=El municipi en xifres: Gandesa|publisher=[[Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya|Statistical Institute of Catalonia]]|access-date=2015-11-23}}</ref>
| area_total_km2           = 71.2
| elevation_footnotes      = 
| elevation_m              = 368
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| postal_code              = 43064
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| blank_name               = [[Köppen climate classification|Climate]]
| blank_info               = [[Mediterranean climate#Hot-summer mediterranean climate|Csa]]
| website                  = {{URL|https://www.gandesa.cat/}}
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'''Gandesa''' ({{IPA|ca|ɡanˈdeza}}) is the capital of the ''[[Catalonia/Comarques|comarca]]'' of [[Terra Alta (comarca)|Terra Alta]], in the province of [[Tarragona]], [[Catalonia]], Spain.

==History==
In the place known as ''Coll del Moro'' there is an [[ancient Iberian]] archaeological site belonging to the [[Ilercavones]] tribe that lived in this area before Roman times.

Gandesa has a church with unusual and interesting sculptures on the [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] porch.<ref>[http://www.green-man-of-cercles.org/articles/gandesa_in_new_catalonia.pdf Gandesa – A Church in New Catalonia]</ref>

The old [[winery]] of Gandesa, also known in Catalonia as one of the Wine Cathedrals, is from [[Modernisme]] and [[Noucentisme]] style and was designed by the architect [[Cèsar Martinell]] in 1919.

Gandesa was at the center of fighting during the [[Battle of the Ebro]] ([[Battle of Gandesa (1938)|Battle of Gandesa]] and [[Siege of Gandesa (1938)|Siege of Gandesa]]) in the [[Spanish Civil War]]. In the summer of 1938, Republican forces crossed the Ebro in an attempt to throw back the Nationalist armies of [[General Franco]]. This is mentioned in the ballad "[[Jamie Foyers]]" and ''[[Si me quieres escribir]]'', also known as ''El Frente de Gandesa''.<ref name="altavoz">{{Cite web |url=http://www.altavozdelfrente.org/index.php/canciones/107-si-me-quieres-escribir-ya-sabes-mi-paradero-el-frente-de-gandesa-los-emboscados |title=Si me quieres escribir - Ya sabes mi paradero - El Frente de Gandesa - Los emboscados |access-date=2015-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171207144949/http://www.altavozdelfrente.org/index.php/canciones/107-si-me-quieres-escribir-ya-sabes-mi-paradero-el-frente-de-gandesa-los-emboscados |archive-date=2017-12-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Now there is a museum devoted to the Battle of the Ebro in Gandesa.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.espaciosguerracivil.com/ESPACIOS/CEBE-Gandesa-Guerra-Civil.htm |title=Museo de Gandesa - CEBE - Centre d'Estudis de la batalla de l'Ebre |access-date=2011-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429033119/http://www.espaciosguerracivil.com/ESPACIOS/CEBE-Gandesa-Guerra-Civil.htm |archive-date=2011-04-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On December 23, 1948, an [[Iberia Airlines]] [[Douglas DC-3]] crashed in bad weather near Gandesa killing all 27 occupants.

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170130012638/http://www.gandesa.cat/ Gandesa official site]
* [http://aplicacions.municat.gencat.cat/index.php?page=consulta&mostraEns=4306400000 Government data pages] {{in lang|ca}}

{{Geographic location
|Centre = Gandesa
|N  = [[Vilalba dels Arcs]]
|NE = [[Corbera d'Ebre]]
|E  = [[Benissanet]]
|SE = [[El Pinell de Brai]]
|S  = [[Prat de Comte]]
|SW = 
|W  = [[Bot, Tarragona|Bot]]
|NW = [[Batea, Tarragona|Batea]]
}}
{{Terra Alta}}
{{Municipalities in Tarragona|state=autocollapse}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Municipalities in Terra Alta (comarca)]]
[[Category:Populated places in Terra Alta (comarca)]]