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RILLO DE
GALLO
Here you will
find everything you need to know about this village situated in the
Northeast of the province of Guadalajara. 190 km from Madrid, you
get to Rillo by taking the highway to Barcelona (A - 2) as far as
Alcolea del Pinar, and then the N-211 towards Molina de Aragón and
Teruel. Rillo is 4 km before Molina de Aragón, the capital of the
district. You will discover its people, its life... and even its
recent ballots.
First of all, in
the front page, a summary and the most outstanding topics of the web
and the links to all that is written about Rillo in the internet.
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SOCIAL
LIFE
All the
social and economic events that take place in Rillo, from
christenings (not many) and weddings (them neither) to any
other function, will be included here so that people who
live far away from Rillo can find out everything that
happens here.
ECONOMY
Rillo is,
or maybe was, fundamentally an agricultural village, its
income comes from wheat, sunflower, barley or livestock. The
current production may be higher than the previously, but
this has nothing in common with what the old people from
Rillo remember.
The fact
is that Rillo, just like the rest of Spain, does not have an
agrarian economy any longer. The money to build the new
houses that have appeared in Rillo in recent years does not
come from agriculture, but from the people living in Madrid,
Barcelona and Guadalajara, and the image of the old village
has changed. The reason? tourism in August when everybody
goes there. And, we can’t forget public money from
Guadalajara (Diputación Provincial), Toledo (Junta de
Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha) and Madrid (Administración
Central) among other places.
HISTORY
Rillo is
a village built up over traditional settlements of earlier
civilizations. Near the village, following the Old stream,
we can find the remains of a celtic settlement, where some
pottery and metallic objects were found, proving it
existenced several centuries before Christ.
Also the signs of old fortifications lead old
chroniclers to believe that there might have been a strong
castle. It seems that this tradition was always firmly
followed, we know that until the XVI century and even later,
the Moors from Molina went in pilgrimage to Rillo because
they believed that in those ruins were the foundations of
their old mosque.
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If
you have reached this page I must sincerely thank
you for coming all the way to this point and if you
do not know enough Spanish but decide to come over,
you can be sure that all visitors will be welcomed.
19340-RILLO
DE GALLO (Guadalajara) Spain. rillo_de_gallo@yahoo.com
| Tel.: +34 949 830 025;
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