HISTORY ABOUT CASTELL DE ARO

prehistory
In the area of Pinell, the first settlements dating from 2500 BC. C., in the Neolithic period. From this period you have discovered a dozen pit graves. Around 2000 a. C., in the late Neolithic and during the Chalcolithic, human population groups are set in the mountains of Treumal and Vallvanera. We found many megalithic monuments:

Menhirs in Vallbanera
Dolmen Cova dels Moros (Cueva de los Moros).

Roman Period
In the village of Pla de Palol discovered dating Roman stays between the first and fourth centuries AD have These rooms occupy an area of 10,000 m2, an important part of courtyards and spaces without buildings. The villa exploited the land, both agriculture and the cultivation of the vine. Also extracted clay for making pottery which is then exported by sea through the natural harbor which was Cala Rovira.

Medieval era
From the ninth century, after regaining the territories to the Saracens, recruitment begins in the Aro Valley. The first settlers were farmers. In 881, King Charlemagne offered the bishop of Girona the territory of Aro Valley.

The first documentary reference to Playa de Aro, in his original name Fanals d'Amunt, appears in 968. It is a precept of King Lothario, confirming Sunyer as abbot of the monastery of Sant Feliu de Guixols and its possessions, including Fanals d'Amunt and the church were.

The origin of Aro Castle is on Castle Benedormiens. The castle is documented in 1041, when the religious authorities, knights and nobles fought territory to the monastery of Sant Feliu de Guixols custody of the castle with the obligation to protect all the Aro Valley, which is an important part Fanals.

The existence of a new church is documented in 1585 in the Baix Fanals, the current Fanals de Aro. Thus is formed around a new settlement after leaving Fanals d'Amunt. The 1774 just expanding the church Fanals de Aro.

modern Era
For centuries there was only a single municipality in 1858 are separated into two, one Romanyá, Bell-lloc, Santa Cristina d'Aro and Solius; and one with Castillo de Aro and Fanals de Aro, thus configuring the birth of the current two cities, Santa Cristina d'Aro and Castillo de Aro.

In 1843 it is set to benefit high-income landowners, municipal suffrage censatario centralized model. In the elections of 1869, was reflected the federal and republican nature of the Empordà and Fanals. Therefore, in response to the suspension of constitutional guarantees and action to disarm the militia dictated by the central government, federal rose and the inhabitants of Fanals supported them by participating in the so-called "Foc de la Bisbal" where different government forces clashed.

The architect Rafael Maso Valenti, a man of great artistic sensibility, collected the ambitious project of the Ensesa family, which promised to deliver a solar the first descendant of S'Agaró he wanted to build, to build a residential town and make S'Agaró become a small Spanish village integrated with the surrounding environment. The Baths of Sant Pol, the luxurious Monumental Hotel and Hostal de la Gavina: At the same time, new buildings were developed.

In 1962 the final tourism development for the town occurs with the change of name by Fanals de Aro Playa de Aro. The change of capital and the City's historic core and inside Castillo de Aro Playa de Aro during the same year, the first major tourism promotion campaign of international scope. In 1964 he regaled a week in the population 50 couples to commemorate the silver jubilee half and half his honeymoon with the program "Love is cited in Playa de Aro."

In 1970 the City Council, owner of Castle Castle Benedormiens Aro, commissioned its first restoration. The oldest part, dating from the twelfth century was preserved.

In 1978 he returned to celebrate Carnival and in 1979 the first council of the new democracy was established. In 1983 the halls of Castle Benedormiens are enabled to make presentations. In 1995 was officially declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest by the Generalitat of Catalonia the old center of Castillo de Aro, together with the historical urbanization of S'Agaró and walkway.

In 1996 he returned to start a new tourism campaign of great impact, which proposed to tourists and visitors seek, where the waves break, some shells and snails very special sea that allowed to that was getting direct prizes and participate in the draw of a car. In 1997 he opened in Castillo de Aro the Museu de la Nina (Doll Museum). The Doll Museum displays 350 dolls from all eras. Also notable is the representation of the Living Nativity they do every year, local residents, huge plastic beauty.