Aragon Guide

Albarracin - The “Mayos” Date: 30 April At midnight on the 30th. , the serenade goes round the steep streets of Albarracin and other villages in the region playing love-songs under balconies full of flowers. These are the mayos, a popular expression of exaltation of love and spring, which rises ...

Alcala de la Selva - Alcala de la Selva is situated in aprivileged spot. Under the watchful eye of the castle, the streets of the town intertwine to reach the church of San Simon and San Judas, midway between Gothic and Renaissance. the town is an attractive meeting point for visitors, both in winter (since the ski ...

Andorra - Andorra, is not only city and mining region, but also ancestral home sprinkled with valuable sites. It is on the third place in the province according to the number of inhabitants, and from the road between it and Ariño it is possible to see opencast mines, pitheads that remind the ...

Attractions in Teruel City - Attractions in Teruel ...

Calanda - Calanda, home town of the great film maker, Luis Bunuel. Calanda lies halfway between the provinces of Zaragoza, Teruel and Castellón. Its strategic situation has made this an area of passage and communication between the Ebro Valley and the Mediterranean coast. This has moulded the ...

Casa La Madrilena - La Madrileña is one of the most representative art nouveau houses in Teruel. It was created by the Modernist architect Pablo Monguio. It has an uncomplicated façade, where the lines forming an oval acquire delicacy and great symbolic value. Materials such as stone, wrought iron and ...

City of Teruel - Teruel is a city in Aragon, Spain, the capital of Teruel Province. It has a population of 34,240 in 2006. It is noted for its harsh climate, its jamón serrano (cured ham), its pottery and its famous Fiestas (La Vaquilla del Angel during the second weekend of July and "Bodas de Isabel de ...

Cuevas de Canart - The small village of Cuevas de Cañart was founded by the Templar knights. Cuevas de Cañart has several beautiful noble houses including those of don Iñigo de Aragón, casa Moliner, casa of the Arellano family and the Bread ...

El Cid - There are many stories about Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar's presence in what is now the province of Teruel. History and legend are combined in the parts of the "Cantar" that speak of Teruel, from Poyo del Cid and Olocau de Rey –in Castellón-, the Campeador imposed the law of ...

Escalinata - It is a neo-Mudejar construction and connects the centre of the town to the Railway Station. It is a modernist communication construction and was built in 1921 next to the Viaduct. These two constructions were the routes of access and expansion transforming the medieval town into the modern one. ...

Fiestas in Teruel - Fiestas in Teruel, ...

Fuente del Torico - It lies in one of Teruel's most emblematic squares. The old fountain that was built here was actually an underground reservoir that dated from 1375, although this was changed twice and in 1858 the actual fountain that we see today was built. The fountain has a large column that is crowned by a ...

Hotel Civera, Teruel, Aragon - The 2 star Hotel Civera is located in the city centre, next to Dinopolis theme park and in Teruel’s most modern areas. Hotel offers 72 confortable rooms with full bathroom, telephone and satellite television. The Hotel has a large hall where you can hold meetings, banquets or family ...

Hotel Civera, Teruel, Aragon - The 2 star Hotel Civera is located in the city centre, next to Dinopolis theme park and in Teruel’s most modern areas. Hotel offers 72 confortable rooms with full bathroom, telephone and satellite television. The Hotel has a large hall where you can hold meetings, banquets or family ...

Hotel Plaza Boulevard, Teruel, Aragon - The 3 star Plaza Boulevard Hotel is located in the heart of Teruel’s historic centre and offers accommodation with spectacular views of San Juan square and is a few meters from the Torico square. The hotel has 18 rooms, 4 of which are single, 12 double and 2 suites with a hydro-massage ...

Hotel Plaza Boulevard, Teruel, Aragon - The 3 star Plaza Boulevard Hotel is located in the heart of Teruel’s historic centre and offers accommodation with spectacular views of San Juan square and is a few meters from the Torico square. The hotel has 18 rooms, 4 of which are single, 12 double and 2 suites with a hydro-massage ...

Hotel Reina Cristina, Teruel, Aragon - The 3 star Hotel Reina Cristina is situated in the historic quarter of Teruel, a top example of Mudejar architecture and world heritage. We welcome you to our hotel and we offer you our services and facilities to make your stay as pleasant as possible. Hotel Reina Cristina offers 80 rooms, some ...

Hotel Reina Cristina, Teruel, Aragon - The 3 star Hotel Reina Cristina is situated in the historic quarter of Teruel, a top example of Mudejar architecture and world heritage. We welcome you to our hotel and we offer you our services and facilities to make your stay as pleasant as possible. Hotel Reina Cristina offers 80 rooms, some ...

Hotel Suite Camarena, Teruel, Aragon - The 3 star Hotel Suite Camarena is in a recently constructed building with private parking. With a unique atmosphere, the staff’s hospitality and the Hotel Suite Camarena Plaza’s facilities offer the guest excellent services and all the amenities for a visitor to feel at home. The ...

Hotel Suite Camarena, Teruel, Aragon - The 3 star Hotel Suite Camarena is in a recently constructed building with private parking. With a unique atmosphere, the staff’s hospitality and the Hotel Suite Camarena Plaza’s facilities offer the guest excellent services and all the amenities for a visitor to feel at home. The ...

Hotel Torico Plaza, Teruel, Aragon - The Torico Plaza is situated in the historical centre of Teruel. It has 31 rooms with a view to the Mudejar Tower of El Salvador, dating back to the early 14th century and to the emblematic fountain of the Torico Square from 1958. Three of the rooms are suites with a balcony and two of them are ...

Hotel Torico Plaza, Teruel, Aragon - The Torico Plaza is situated in the historical centre of Teruel. It has 31 rooms with a view to the Mudejar Tower of El Salvador, dating back to the early 14th century and to the emblematic fountain of the Torico Square from 1958. Three of the rooms are suites with a balcony and two of them are ...

Hotel Torre del Visco, Fuentespalda, Teruel - Just 80 kilometres from the hectic Mediterranean, hidden behind the mountains, there is another World, Teruel: medieval villages, vineyards, eagles, genets and otters in the rivers. The Torre del Visco, dated 1449 is in a stunning situation overlooking the Tastavins river and surrounded by ...

Hotels in Teruel City - Hotels in Teruel ...

La Fresneda - La Fresneda is a beautiful medieval village declared a historic and artistic site, due to the impressive buildings in it's attractive porticoed ...

La Iglesuela del Cid - In La Iglesuela del Cid emblazoned houses represent some of the most important monuments in the region, such as the Torre de los Nublos. Then palace houses follow, like Casa de Matutano, today an Inn with the Aragonese Inn ...

La Menta Restaurant, Teruel City - La Menta is a traditional and popular restaurant in the city of Teruel due to its moderate prices and quality of food. The dining room is divided into several nice lounges. Address: Bartolomé Esteban 10, Teruel City, Aragon, Tel: +34 978 607 ...

La Menta Restaurant, Teruel City - La Menta is a traditional and popular restaurant in the city of Teruel due to its moderate prices and quality of food. The dining room is divided into several nice lounges. Address: Bartolomé Esteban 10, Teruel City, Aragon, Tel: +34 978 607 ...

Maestrazgo Walking Route - The towns of the Maestrazgo district have a great deal of history and many legends.  Here, there is no need to rush, time stands still in this fascinating, mysterious land that requires careful observation.  Nature, tradition, history, a wealth of historic and artistic heritage, honest, ...

Modernism in Teruel City - The most remarkable buildings are situated around the Torico’s Square (now Carlos Castel), main centre of Teruel, all of the buildings were done by Pablo Monguio built between 1910 and 1912. La Madrileña and the Casa de Tejidos El Torico. The Casa Ferran in Nueva Street is the most ...

Modernism in Teruel City - The most remarkable buildings are situated around the Torico’s Square (now Carlos Castel), main centre of Teruel, all of the buildings were done by Pablo Monguio built between 1910 and 1912. La Madrileña and the Casa de Tejidos El Torico. The Casa Ferran in Nueva Street is the most ...

Moli de l'Hereu Restaurant, Rafales - Hotel Moli de l'Hereu Restaurant is open for lunch (hotel guests and the public) and dinner (guests only). It offers lovely food using produce from the village, the chef prepares the freshest of ingredients for use in his a la carte selection, with special emphasis on ...

Motorland Aragon - The Motorland Aragon circuit is a new international-standard circuit built in Spain. Motorland Aragon is the result of Aragon’s powerful automotive industry that emerged after General Motors opened its Zaragoza plant in 1982. The track layout was designed by Hermann Tilke and the main ...

Mudejar Architecture in Teruel - The Mudejar style, resulting from Jewish, Muslim and Christian cultures living side by side, emerged as an architectural style in the 12th century on the Iberian peninsula. It is characterised by the use of brick as the main material. Mudejar did not involve the creation of new shapes or structures ...

Other Fiestas of Interest - Alcala de la Selva. The 8 September is the Virgin of the Vega, there is a procesión to the shrine and different popular acts are held. Alcañiz. The patron saints’ feast days of Our lady of Pueyos and Santo Angel Custodio are held from 9 September onwards. The procession to ...

Peñarroya de Tastavins - In the steep streets of the town of Peñarroya de Tastavins (Catalan: Pena-roja) , with its attractive houses bearing coats-of-arms, one can see a permanent exhibition entitled "Traditional life and trades: lo Masmut", located in an impressive building that is still comprised of its ...

Peracense Castle - Overlooking the village of the same name, set on impressive cliffs is Peracense castle. It is referred to as Pietra Solez in documents dating from 1284, and one of the most magnificent military structures of all the medieval castles in Teruel and Spain. It is practically intact  and can be ...

Rafales - Rafales is in the middle of the region of Matarranya at an altitude of 627m. surrounded by mountains and Mediterranean pine forests. The earliest traces of civilization are in the plundered Iberian town of Moratella peak, although many people talk about stones as arrowheads in ...

Restaurants in Teruel City - Restaurants in Teruel ...

Route through the Parque Cultural de Rio Martin - The route starts out in Montalban, a town with a medieval centre and many nooks and buildings that are worth visiting.  Access to the centre is through the Portal de Daroca (14th century) or Torreón de la Cárcel. In plaza Mayor is the magnificent church of Santiago (13th-14th ...

San Martin Church - San Martin church already existed in 1196, but the current church actually dates back to the seventeenth century. It has three naves, an ambulatory, a pointed barrel vault with small windows in the central nave and arris vaults in the side naves. The oldest part of the church is the Gothic-Mudejar ...

Sierras of Teruel Route, Aragon - Albarracin (Bronchales, Orihuela), Teruel (Cella, Puebla de Valverde), Mora de Rubielos (Rubielos de Mora, Alcala de la Selva, Valdelinares), Cantavieja (Iglesuela del Cid, Villarluengo, Mirambel). Area: The southernmost area of Aragon. From the Montes Universales, the source of the Tajo river ...

Skiing in Teruel - Less than an hour and a half inland from the centre of Valencia and the sunny beaches of the Mediterranean Costa del Azahar, a surprise awaits – the small ski resort of Javalambre. Its proximity to the coast makes Javalambre an enjoyable and original option as a change from the beach and ...

Teruel - The province of Teruel, in the south of Aragon, is home to most of the Sistema Iberico mountain range area. Its geography offers abundant contrasts between the plains surrounding Teruel city and mountainous areas such as Gudar, Albarracin or Javalambre. The traces of its rich past are found in ...

Teruel Cathedral - The tower, the roof and the dome all form part of Unesco's World heritage. The temple was constructed on top of the Santa Maria de Mediavilla church. It has three stonework and brick naves, as a result of the enlargement of the old Romanesque church in 1171. Juzaff the Moor directed the work that ...

Teruel City - Fiestas of the Angel. Date: The second Sunday in July, close to St. Cristobal Fiesta of the Angel in Teruel Dedicated to the Santo Angel (Holy Angel), the patron saint of the city, they commemorate the legendary foundation of Teruel by some Aragonese knights after taking the Moslem fortress, ...

Teruel City Walk - Teruel is often called the city of love (population 29.320), enveloped in the legend of the Romeo and Juliet style lovers, Diego and Isabel, whose spirits live amidst the Mudejar towers. The Moorish inhabitants of Teruel converted the city into the most important open museum of Mudejar art in the ...

Teruel City Walks - Teruel City ...

Teruel Museum - Teruel Museum is located in the Casa de la Comunidad, a 16th-century Renaissance construction in the heart of the historic centre, very close to the Cathedral. The museum is divided into various sections: Archaeology, with exhibits that go from prehistory to the Christian kingdoms, along with ...

Teruel Walks - Step back in time as you walk between the ancient land of Teruel. Few regions in Europe are quite so timeless, or so completely  unspoiled, and our waking routes recommendations are excellent. Teruel is real Spain, a truly undiscovered region, over which  are scattered architectural ...

Valdeltormo - The municipality of Valdeltormo (Catalan: La Vall de Tormo), with it's many majestic olive trees is the location of the historic town of Mazaleón, where there are traces of Protohistoric, Roman and Mediaeval civilisations. It is also famous for it's high-quality ...