Calcena: Monumental routes. The hidden face of Moncayo Province of Zaragoza. Aragon.

Calcena Zaragoza Monumental routes

Isuela Route

Morata de Jalón: Renaissance complex of the palace (1671), market with semicircular arcades and parish church.
Chodes: the "new" Chodes was founded in 1676 and is organized around a large polygonal square.
Arándiga: with the spectacular castle whose first reports date back to Alfonso II (1188) and which perched on a hill overlooking the Morata basin.

Mesones de Isuela: its Gothic castle is the most spectacular element of the route; unfinished, it was ordered to be built by Archbishop Don Lope Fernandez de Luna and has a chapel with Mudejar coffered ceiling; It is one of the most impressive fortresses in Aragon.

Tierga: the urban area is piled up around the remains of the castle; The church of San Juan Bautista has a typical Aragonese continuous arcade on the upper floor and preserves a Romanesque Christ.

Trasobares: it has a Gothic church and in the square the beautiful doorway of the Cistercian convent from the 17th century.

Purujosa: due to its location it is the most picturesque town and from the hill you can see the cliffs that surround it.

Ruta del Aranda

Aranda de Moncayo: the hamlet is highlighted by the silhouette of the castle whose Muslim origin is revealed in the pyramidal battlements.

Jarque: 14th century castle built by the Fernandez de Luna family; parish church from the 18th century.

Gotor: the grandiose and abandoned convent of Santo Domingo (16th century) offers a mix of styles from the late Gothic of the star vaults of the cloister to the baroque of the temple.

Illueca: the star of the tour is the Martínez de Luna palace, birthplace of Don Pedro Martínez de Luna, Pope Benedict XIII; It preserves the 14th century structure and the reforms of the 15th and 16th centuries gave the castle an Italianate appearance; Not far away is the church of San Juan with a Mudejar structure and a cross vault.

Brea de Aragón: church of Santa Ana built in the mid-16th century.

It also has other points of interest:

Phones

Town Hall: +34 976829230
Hostel: +34 976829296
Isuela river cars: +34 976829292
Public Telephone: +34 976829262
Store: +34 976829274

Information provided by the Cultural Association "Friends of the Villa de Calcena". F. Ruiz.

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Ample your information on Aragon

If you want Ample your information on Aragon you can begin crossing some Monasteries, o 40 Castles another interesting route is the Mudejar, Patrimony of the Humanity, also you can extend your cultural knowledge on Aragón examining its municipal and institutional heraldy without forgetting, of course, some of its emblematicas figures as San George Pattern of Aragon or its personages I illustrate adding to these data a minimum crossed by its history o some books.

Also Aragon enjoys a diverse and varied Nature where passing by plants, animals, or landscapes we can arrive at a fantastic bestiario that lives in its monuments.

The information will not be complete without a stroll by its three provinces: Zaragoza, Teruel and Huesca and ours varied Regions, with shutdown in some of its spectacular landscapes like Ordesa or the Moncayo or by opposition in the valle of the Ebro.

If reasons of work or relatives have taken to you Far from Aragon you can Download images of bottom, sounds or animations

Also you can dedicate you to the intangible ones: from the legend compilation that also does to universal Aragon you can persecute the presence of Santo Grial in Aragon.

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Calcena: Monumental routes. The hidden face of Moncayo

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