

This interpretation centre is located in the municipal premises of Torre del Compte. Here visitors can learn about everyday local life during the years following the Civil War. The centre displays a fascinating collection of objects that transport us to a not-so-distant past. They reflect the toils and days, the life, that the old mechanism of the town hall clock might have witnessed. Also present is the hand of the craftsmen who made them — a material testimony to a popular culture in continuous transformation. We also find household items, with the hearth as the centre of domestic life: its open fire, with its irons, andirons and trivets. The bench and rush-seated chairs, clay pots, pitchers, pans and casseroles. All the tools for making pasta and bread. And of course, water, carefully transported in wooden, wicker or iron 'aiguaderas' and stored in clay jars and jugs. Also on display are traditional trousseaux: shirts and breeches, aprons, nightcaps, and even a delicate silk and ivory parasol, as well as the sackcloth costumes of the 'diables de Sant Antoni' — revived after the war — which delight children and adults alike on the day of the 'plega' for the saint's feast, adorned with naive paintings of diabolical and somewhat fantastical animals. Agricultural work is represented through tools of trades now part of history: presided over by an imposing threshing sledge, old ploughs, winnowing fans, muzzles and pack saddles, rakes, yokes and pulleys, alongside a pre-technological sprayer, all speaking of yesterday's labour. The carpenter's trade is also represented with some of its most characteristic tools. Beekeeping and hunting were once a complement to agricultural activity. First we see a series of objects related to honey and bees: a cork beehive and its corresponding smoker. Finally, on a beautiful walnut table, rests a modernist Hispano-Olivetti typewriter, alongside old glass inkwells and copies of 'El Noticiero' — the Catholic Zaragoza daily now defunct — and some old books that still transmit fantasies and knowledge, preserved by their worn bindings. Advance booking is required to visit this space.
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