Denise Milani Niple Slip

car accident in 1911

testimony of gratitude to God Almighty that offers
Francisco
P. Romana Suari
for having spared the death

along with his family in a car accident occurred at this site

XIV on August

MCMXI * (* For those who do not know how to interpret Roman numerals: 14 August 1911)

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always intrigued me was this "monument" that is on the road between Sabiñánigo to Jaca, in the province of Huesca (Spain).

Located on the side, next to the road (with the construction of a new highway will no longer be visible) and halfway between the two locations.

Passing car is impossible to read what it says. So one day there was little traffic, I stopped at the side (I put the turn signals up) and I took a photo to document the testimony of gratitude.

Surprise is not a CITIZEN grateful raised a monolith to commemorate a significant event (roads, even the mountains are full of them.) The surprise is that it makes high benchmark to a road accident almost in the prehistory of the automobile industry: 1911. We can speculate

car that suffered the accident, probably a Ford T 1910. It would be very different from this:

T Ford, Model 1910. Photo wikipedia

I find it more difficult to speculate on road conditions, which may well seem the picture above (although something tells me it would not be in such good condition). Well

. It turns out that the protagonist, whom I believe an anonymous citizen of the time and place, even a character of some significance, given its "possible", has proved to be a significant driver of development in the Alto Aragón.

Under the auspices of Francisco de Paula Romana Suari , Baron de Romana, you begin to study, in August 1909, "Irrigation Project del Alto Aragón (Sobrarbe, Somontano and Monegros)."

The project was "to put 300,000 ha under irrigation. By the waters of the rivers Cinca and Gallego, first, and Guatizalema Sotón and, secondly. The area involved the fourth of the total irrigated land in Spain and the plan was the largest in Europe. The State chose to take over the project by paying their rights to Baron de Romana, who had placed great hope in this book really great. "

Road safety, as seen, it was a problem in the early twentieth century, was about to be an entrepreneur of before.


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Bibliography
• Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa . High Irrigation Aragon . • Channel
monegros in portal Ebro River Basin