IV Concurso Literario de Relato Corto Ciudad de Caspe Caspe
Born in Caspe, he moved early to Barcelona and was educated at the Escola Nova Unificada, living through the revolutionary wave against Franco's military coup and also the deprivations of the Civil War.
This former northern territory, that included the municipalities of Fayón (Faió del Matarranya), Maella and Fabara (Favara del Matarranya), is now the eastern end of the Bajo Aragón-Caspe/Baix Aragó-Casp comarca.
Compromise of Caspe | Caspe | Bajo Aragón-Caspe/Baix Aragó-Casp |
Ossorio y Gallardo served a career in the Congress during the Spanish Restoration as deputy for the Caspe district of Zaragoza constituency, as a member of the Conservative Party, beginning his political career as MP for Zaragoza, a seat he obtained at subsequent elections until 1923 and the dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera, when he moved away from politics.
Caspe is collected by Schering-Plough, John Hightower, former director of the Museum of Modern Art, The Derfner Judaica Museum and the Art Collection, and the National Gallery of Australia.