La Serra d'Almos

La Serra d'Almos
La Serra d'Almos
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	La Serra d'Almos Location in Spain
	Coordinates: 41°4′47.30″N0°44′39″E / 41.0798056°N 0.74417°E
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Catalonia
Province	Tarragona
Comarca	Ribera d'Ebre
Municipality	Tivissa
Area
• Total	100 km2 (40 sq mi)
Elevation	229 m (751 ft)
Population (2009)
• Total	273
• Density	2.7/km2 (7.1/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Last updated April 16, 2019

La Serra d'Almos is a village located within the municipal term of Tivissa, in the Ribera d'Ebre comarca, Catalonia, Spain.

Tivissa Municipality in Catalonia, Spain

Tivissa is a municipality in the comarca of Ribera d'Ebre, Catalonia, Spain. It is located below the La Llena massif. As well as the village of Tivissa itself, the municipality also includes the village of La Serra d'Almos, at the feet of the Montalt mountains, and the hamlets of Darmós and Llaberia.

Ribera d'Ebre is a comarca (county) in Catalonia, Spain. The name in Catalan refers to its location on the banks of the river Ebre, usually referred to in English by its Spanish name Ebro.

A comarca is a traditional region or local administrative division found in Portugal, Spain and some of their former colonies: Panama, Nicaragua, and Brazil. The term is derived from the term marca, meaning a "march, mark", plus the prefix co-, meaning "together, jointly".

History

Administratively La Serra d'Almos was formerly a municipality in its own right since 1787. In 1940, one year after the Spanish Civil War, the village was merged with the Tivissa municipality. Since 2009 it has become a Decentralized Municipal Entity (EMD), though still depending from Tivissa, located about 7 km away.

The Spanish Civil War took place from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Second Spanish Republic, in alliance with the Anarchists and Communists, fought against the Nationalists, an alliance of Falangists, Monarchists, and Catholics, led by General Francisco Franco. Due to the international political climate at the time, the war had many facets, and different views saw it as class struggle, a war of religion, a struggle between dictatorship and republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, between fascism and communism. The Nationalists won the war in early 1939 and ruled Spain until Franco's death in November 1975.

Geography

La Serra d'Almos has a church dedicated to Sant Domingo. The village is located in picturesque surroundings, in view of the Valley of the Ebro River at the feet of the Serra de Montalt, a subrange of the Serra de Llaberia, surrounded by vineyards and olive trees. Nowadays it is a favoured agritourism destination.

Saint Dominic, also known as Dominic of Osma and Dominic of Caleruega, often called Dominic de Guzmán and Domingo Félix de Guzmán, was a Castilian priest and founder of the Dominican Order. Dominic is the patron saint of astronomers.

Serra de Llaberia is a mountain chain in Catalonia, Spain located between the Prades and the Tivissa-Vandellòs Mountains.

Vineyard Plantation of grape-bearing vines

A vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is known as viticulture.

The wine produced in La Serra d'Almos is marketed under the Montsant DO denomination. Also local olives yield high-quality oil that has been awarded Protected Designation of Origin (PDO). This oil is marketed as DO Siurana.^[1]

Montsant is a Spanish Denominación de Origen, DO for wine located in the province of Tarragona and covers 12 municipalities. It was previously known as the Falset subzone of Tarragona (DO), and was created as a separate DO in the early 2000s. Regional approval came in 2001, and from 2002 wines were sold as Montsant rather than Tarragona. Montsant takes its name from the Montsant mountains in the area.

Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained from olives, a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin. The oil is produced by pressing whole olives. It is commonly used in cooking, whether for frying or as a salad dressing. It is also used in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and soaps, and as a fuel for traditional oil lamps, and has additional uses in some religions. There is limited evidence of its possible health benefits. The olive is one of three core food plants in Mediterranean cuisine; the other two are wheat and grapes.

View of La Serra d'Almos Serra-d'almos62.JPG — View of La Serra d'Almos

Main street in La Serra d'Almos with Sant Domingo church Serra-d'almos3.JPG — Main street in La Serra d'Almos with Sant Domingo church

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References

↑ Olive oil. Protected Denomination of origen - Siurana Archived 2011-05-18 at the Wayback Machine .

External links

Media related to La Serra d'Almos at Wikimedia Commons
La Serra d'Almos official page
La Serra d'Almos. Web del Consell comarcal de la Ribera d'Ebre
Agritourism in La Serra d'Almos

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[1] Olive oil. Protected Denomination of origen - Siurana Archived 2011-05-18 at the Wayback Machine .