| Summary: | Zaragoza is the capital of the present Autonomous Community of Aragon. Until the decrees of Nueva Planta (1707), it was the capital of the Kingdom of Aragon. During Francoism, when it was only the capital of the province of the same name, it played the role of economic, cultural and academic capital not only of Aragon but also of an important part of the Ebro Valley and the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula. The rural exodus emptied the Aragonese countryside and fostered the consolidation of Zaragoza as the undisputed capital. "Saragossian macrocephaly" was born.This paper will examine how Zaragoza has "naturally" converted into the political capital of autonomous Aragon, at the same time as it has become the capital of an inner and emptied Spain (with the exception of Madrid) which exercises a form of Iberian synthesis located in a transitional territory (Aragon) between inner and peripheral Spain, monolingual and bilingual
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