Riudoms is a town in the
comarcaThis is a list of the comarques of Catalonia . A comarca is roughly equivalent to a US "county" or a UK "district". However, in the context of Catalonia, the term "county" can be a bit misleading, because in medieval Catalonia, the most important rulers were counts, notably the Counts of Barcelona...
of
Baix CampBaix Camp is a comarca of Catalonia in northeastern Spain. It is one of the three comarques into which Camp de Tarragona was divided in the comarcal division of 1936....
, province of Tarragona, in
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,
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, located about five kilometers from the regional capital
ReusReus is the capital of the comarca of Baix Camp, in the province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain.The area has always been an important producer of wines and spirits, and gained continental importance at the time of the Phylloxera plague...
.
The people from this town are called
riudomenc/riudomenca.
- Population (2008) = 6.557
- Area = 32.4 km²
- Population density (2008) = 201.45 citizens/km²
- Altitude = 125 m
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Riudoms was a Roman rural settlement (some archaeological remains and coins were discovered), that was depopulated when the Muslims dominated the region in the 8th century.
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Riudoms is a town in the
comarcaThis is a list of the comarques of Catalonia . A comarca is roughly equivalent to a US "county" or a UK "district". However, in the context of Catalonia, the term "county" can be a bit misleading, because in medieval Catalonia, the most important rulers were counts, notably the Counts of Barcelona...
of
Baix CampBaix Camp is a comarca of Catalonia in northeastern Spain. It is one of the three comarques into which Camp de Tarragona was divided in the comarcal division of 1936....
, province of Tarragona, in
CataloniaCatalonia is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain. The capital city is Barcelona.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an official population of 7,364,078. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the...
,
SpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
[The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though España , Estado español and Nación española are used interchangeably...]
, located about five kilometers from the regional capital
ReusReus is the capital of the comarca of Baix Camp, in the province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain.The area has always been an important producer of wines and spirits, and gained continental importance at the time of the Phylloxera plague...
.
The people from this town are called
riudomenc/riudomenca.
- Population (2008) = 6.557
- Area = 32.4 km²
- Population density (2008) = 201.45 citizens/km²
- Altitude = 125 m
History
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Riudoms was a Roman rural settlement (some archaeological remains and coins were discovered), that was depopulated when the Muslims dominated the region in the 8th century. Conquered by the
NormanThe Normans were the people who gave their names to Normandy, a region in northern France. They descended from Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of mostly Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock...
Robert d'AguilóRobert d'Aguiló, d'Aculley, or de Culley , also known as Robert Bordet, was a Norman adventurer who moved from Normandy to Catalonia in the early eleventh century...
under the orders of the Catalan count, the lordship of Riudoms was granted to
Arnau de PalomarArnau de Palomar was the first lord of Riudoms, in Southern Catalonia near the current city of Reus. The lordship of Riudoms was granted to Arnau de Palomar 24 January 1150 by the lord of the City and Land of Tarragona, Robert Bordet ....
on 24 January 1150. A
castleA castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. The term has a history of scholarly debate surrounding its exact meaning, but it is usually regarded as being distinct from the general terms fort or fortress, in that it describes a residence of a monarch or...
was constructed and a town born at side.
Although it is widely accepted that he was born in
ReusReus is the capital of the comarca of Baix Camp, in the province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain.The area has always been an important producer of wines and spirits, and gained continental importance at the time of the Phylloxera plague...
, this village is considered by some people the place of birth of the architect
Antoni GaudíAntoni Plàcid Guillem Gaudí i Cornet – in English sometimes referred to by the Spanish translation of his name, Antonio Gaudí...
i Cornet, designer of the
Sagrada FamíliaThe Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família , often simply called the Sagrada Família, is a massive, privately-funded Roman Catholic church that has been under construction in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain since 1882 and is not expected to be complete until at least 2026...
church in
BarcelonaBarcelona is the capital, most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008. It is the 11th-most populous municipality in the European Union and sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris,...
and the most famous creator of the artistic movement of
ModernismeSee also: ModernismModernisme also known, in English, as Catalan modernism, was the Catalan equivalent to a number of fin-de-siècle art movements, such as Symbolism, Decadence and Art Nouveau / Jugendstil, from roughly 1888 to 1911...
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