# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/casta-alvarez
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:48:16.665Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/casta-alvarez"
name: "Casta Álvarez"
slug: "casta-alvarez"
description: "Casta Álvarez Barceló was an Aragonese insurgent, who fought in the First siege of Zaragoza. This took place during the 1808 to 1814 Spanish War of Independence, or Guerra de la Independencia Española, part of the Peninsular War. She is known for inspiring the defenders of the city by single-handedly defeating an advancing French cavalry troop. Her story was popularised in a series of engravings entitled Ruinas de Zaragoza published in 1812 and 1813. For her actions, she received a pension from Ferdinand VII of Spain and, at the centenary of the siege, her body was reinterred with honour."
tagline: "Spanish military personnel"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Casta_%C3%81lvarez_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
birthDate: "1776"
deathDate: "1846-04-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.22
  momentum:             2.647058823529412
  historical:           6.138409333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta_%C3%81lvarez"
    title: "Casta Álvarez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta_%C3%81lvarez_Barcel%C3%B3"
    title: "Casta Álvarez Barceló"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta_%C3%81lvarez"
    title: "Casta Álvarez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta_%C3%81lvarez"
    title: "Casta Álvarez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta_%C3%81lvarez"
    title: "Casta Álvarez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta_%C3%81lvarez"
    title: "Casta Álvarez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0"
    title: "Альварес, Каста"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5756701"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump