The innocent stopping place, Aragoncillo

The Venta de Aragoncillo, a historic wayside inn situated in Aragoncillo, a pedanía of Corduente in the province of Guadalajara, Spain, lies a kilometer south of Aragoncillo's main area, near the current N-211 highway. The building was built as a rest stop on the road from Alcolea del Pinar to Molina de Aragón, possibly in the first half of the 19th century. Francisco Gómez Aguado and his wife Joaquina Salvador Esteban bought the Venta de Aragoncillo around 1860, and it remained within their family until 1943 when Bernabea, their only daughter, took over.

Bernabea and her husband had eight children, two of whom inherited the Venta de Aragoncillo after Bernabea's death in 1943. Agricultural installations along the road were often used as soldier's barracks during the Spanish Civil War, and the Venta de Aragoncillo fell victim to the conflict. An assassination attempt by a republican miliciano on General Francisco Franco's commander, José Moscardo, took place here on June 1, 1937. A fire in 1941 heavily damaged part of the building, and it ceased to serve as a rest stop in the 1960s.

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