TOLEDO.- The brothers Jesus and Rafael Perezagua Delgado have presented this Friday in the Toledo town of Yuncos, the town where they grew up, the result of an exercise in collective memory and arduous search in the archives, a journey through seven exciting decades of the history of this municipalityfrom the dawn of a military revolution, La Gloriosa, which expelled Queen Isabel II from the throne of Spain, to another military rebellion, that of 1936, which led the country to a civil war.
‘Yuncos. Chronicle of a turbulent time (1863-1936)’ It narrates the main events that occurred in the town, from the conflicts experienced in the town hall, the amortizations, the looting of its charitable foundations, the construction of roads or the arrival of the railway, electricity and telephone to the town. Along with this, the eternal problem of water, its first industrial transformation and the turbulent 1930s, as well as events in the form of crimes, disappearances or suicides.
A publication of more than 700 pages in which, together with the facts and historical data, The protagonists are hundreds of residents of Yuncos, with their names and surnamesamong whom many readers can identify their ancestors.
Work that they have presented at the IES ‘La Cañuela’ in Yuncos, together with the journalist Francisco Rodríguez, before a large audience who did not want to miss this event. Among them the Vice Minister of Culture and Sports, Carmen Teresa Olmedo, who has highlighted the contribution of the Perezagua brothers to, through writing, remember “collective memory and identity” of this municipality.
Olmedo has taken the opportunity to highlight the ‘Castilla-La Mancha Edita’ program, in which the Emiliano García-Page Executive has invested more than 200,000 euros in recent years for editorial promotion.
An editorial adventure in which the Perezagua brothers are not newcomers, since in the 80s they were creators of the cultural magazine ‘La Cañuela’, and in 1995 they published the book ‘Yuncos, 1752, according to the Ensenada Cadastre’.
Now, after a meticulous study of the history of Yuncos in the 19th century, they present this unpublished, original and documented work, which analyzes the most relevant events experienced by the residents of this municipality of La Sagra.
A publication on which they continue to work, researching in different national archives the impact that the Civil War and the post-war period had on the municipality and its inhabitants.
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