HISTORY ABOUT PLATJA DE ARO

Prehistory and Roman
The first settlements in the area of Pinell, dating from 2500 BC, in the Neolithic period. Remain as a witness in a dozen pit graves. Around 2000 BC, the late Neolithic and Chalcolithic during, set in the mountains of human groups and Vallvanera Treumal. As witnesses of his presence, we found several megalithic monuments: menhirs Vallvanera, Term beautiful Mas Ros Cave dolmen and Moors.

The main witness to stay in this part of the Roman villa is Palol Plan, dated between I and IV centuries AD. Would have occupied an area of 10,000 m2, an important part of which correspond to patios and spaces not built. The villa exploited the natural resources of land, both agriculture and the cultivation of the vine, and the extraction of clay for making pottery. The obtained products exported by sea through the natural harbor which was Cala Rovira.

middle Ages
From the ninth century begins the repopulation of the territories of the Aro Valley, once recovered from the Saracens, making the terrain. The first settlers are farmers. It is not known exactly when the first settlement was established, although it appears in 881, King Charlemagne gives the bishop of Girona, Teuta, the territory of the Aro Valley, which has already begun extending population towards the coast.

The first documentary reference to UP Lantern (original name of Platja d'Aro) appears in 968. It is the rule of King Lothair, confirming Sunyer as abbot of the monastery of Sant Feliu de Guíxols as well as their possessions, among which include Lantern and his church.

Castle Benedormiens, origin of the town of Castell d'Aro, is documented for the first time in 1041 when the religious authorities, the nobles and knights of the land given to the monastery of Sant Feliu de Guixols custody of the castle, with obligation to protect wartime entire Aro Valley, which is an important part Lantern.

Although the Aro Valley is a fertile land for cultivation, the humble farmers are not the only inhabitants of the medieval Lantern. During the fourteenth century, we highlight the home and possessions of a branch of the family empordanesa lips. Wolf lips, a member of this family attends the Courts of Cervera in 1359 as a noble Lamps and Ramon lips became abbot of the monastery of Sant Feliu de Guíxols between 1328 and 1348.

The 1585 documented the existence of the new church Low Lamps, Lanterns Aro today. After leaving to Top Lantern, forms a new settlement to their environment. In 1698 the parishes of the Aro Valley are included in the crown, forming the royal mayoralty of Aro Valley. 1774 ends the expansion of the church Lantern d'Aro.

modern Era
The current legal status of the peoples of the Aro Valley dates only from 1858, when, after centuries of being part of a single municipality, separate in Santa Cristina d'Aro, Solius Romanyà Bell -place, Castell d'Aro Aro Lantern. So configured, broadly speaking, the birth of two towns today: Santa Cristina d'Aro and Castell-Platja d'Aro.

The turbulent political and social life in the second half of the nineteenth century shakes local life. Councils Act of 1843 establishes a centralized municipal model for the benefit of landowners with higher incomes (censatari suffrage). The Revolutionary Period represents a break in the strict regulations and instituted universal suffrage in voting. In the elections of 1869, it is clear the federal and republican Empordà and lamps. No wonder, then, that in response to the suspension of constitutional guarantees and action to disarm the militia, issued by the government, the federal fanalencs rise up and make the side, participating in the so-called Fire Bisbal, where government forces are facing.

contemporary Period
In 1916, Joseph Ensesa Pujadas, industrial flour based in Girona, swap debt for a baker of Sant Feliu de Guixols to a plot on foot hill S'Agaró. In 1923, Joseph and Ensesa Gubert, takes firm promise to his father to deliver a solar S'Agaró the first child that they build. Surge Senya and the iconic White House (1924). The architect Rafael Maso and Valentine great artistic sensibility, enthusiastically collected Ensesa of the ambitious project to build a residential town and make a small village Catalan S'Agaró integrated environment. This style is perceived in several areas: Senya Blanca, pergolas Square Rose Garden, home Sibils (1929), or the house Gorina (1931), among others. Simultaneously, the same year they develop new constructions: the luxurious Hotel Monumental, the Baths of St. Pol and the Hostal de la Gavina. S'Agaró became a meeting point for artists and men of letters, theater and Catalan and Spanish politicians, and it hosts numerous festivals, dinners, dances, Sardana, flower battles and parties and nautical sports, shattered and broken with Spanish civil conflict.

Simultaneously, even during the early twentieth century, the current Big Beach is totally unspoilt, with no tall buildings, and only a little more scattered inside the first houses set on the plain, far from Lamps district of UP. From the second decade of the twentieth century, begins a fledgling tourism development, but not until after the Spanish civil conflict are not the first tourist establishments, along with the houses of the existing second home of Pineda in Bas foster a growing summer colony.

Tourism development occurs with the final name change Lantern by Aro Playa de Aro (1962), the change in capital and the historic City Hall and inside Castle Playa d'Aro Aro (1962). Coincides with the first major tourism promotion campaign in the international love quotes in Playa de Aro (1964), which presents 50 couples to spend a week in the town, commemorating its 25 its silver anniversary, and 25 other their recent wedding. In 1970 the City Council, owner of Castle Benedormiens Castell d'Aro, handled by the first restoration. Preserved the oldest part of the twelfth century, the closest to the church.

In 1978 Carnival festivities restart, and a year later is the first council of the new democracy, chaired by Ramiro Pons. 1983 comes into force on Land-use planning, vital for the future urban development of the town. The same year, the halls of Castle Benedoremiens enabled to make exhibitions. In 1995, the old town of Castell d'Aro, together with urbanization and its historical S'Agaro walkway are officially declared National Cultural Heritage by the Government of Catalonia.

In 1996 he started a new tourism campaign of great impact: Platja d'Aro has proposed Prize !, tourists and visitors find where waves break shells and conches special, which, properly labeled, allowing lucky to find that getting prizes and participate in the draw of a car. In 1997 it opened the Castell d'Aro Doll Museum, which contains 800 dolls from around the world and from all eras. In 2001 we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Carnival, with a very special performance of the Company Comedians, bringing together thousands of people in the streets and Big Beach.

The early years of the present century are characterized by the construction or modernization of public facilities such as the Civic Center Vicente Bou municipal waste, or Rodoreda Library Lakes Park in Platja d'Aro and the Multipurpose Room Castell d'Aro; as well as the improvements of this historic castle and Benedormiens; and works of preparation of Rampart S'Agaró that consolidates its distinct architectural character of the wild paths of the rest of the coastline of the Costa Brava.