Aceca, Toledo
Aceca is a population entity in the municipality of Villaseca de la Sagra, located in the province of Toledo, within the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain.
Toponymy
The name Aceca derives from the as-Sikka, meaning "the road".History
The locality is mentioned as as-Sikka in Mozarabic documents from Toledo, where it was referred to as a ford crossing the Tagus River.Aceca is later mentioned as an old village within the jurisdiction of Villaseca de la Sagra. It included a house, an oratory, and the remains of a former palace.
By the mid-19th century, it was already described as uninhabited a despoblado. The Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar by Pascual Madoz provides the following description:
Since the 1970s, Aceca has hosted the Aceca thermal power station. In the early 21st century, the residents of the original settlement were relocated to a housing development initially built for the power plant workers. As of 2023, Aceca had 10 registered inhabitants, 1 of whom lived in the main settlement and 9 in scattered dwellings.