Of Celtiberian origin, for his grounds the Romans and the Arabs happened , the canalization owes to the above mentioned of irrigations and hydraulic conduits that today are still enjoyed. During Middle Age was part of the Order of Calatrava.

The Biggest Square with porticoes is the center of the population and where the Town meet to initiate the drums touch.

A museum recreates everything related with the miracle of the "lame person of Calanda".

The religious buildings that we find are the Parochial Church of Ntra. Mrs. of the Hope (XVIIIth century), of baroque style (his the state is deplorable); the Parochial Church of the Virgin of the Prop (XVIIIth century); the Chapel of Santa Barbara (XVth century) and the Chapel of Humilladero (XVIIIth century). Where formerly a castle existed, today it finds the Church of the Miracle. On top of a hill outskirts of the population the Chapel of the Calvary one can see them.

The building Allanequi is interesting (XVIIIth century).

During Holy Week Calanda offers a horrifying spectacle. Hundreds of drums and big drums sound last on Friday and Holy Saturday, putting a tragic note in the celebration of the Holy Week. Them "putuntunes" (soldiers dressed in Romans) remain until 2 a.m. of the evening of the Holy Saturday touching his drums as a token of duel.

Calanda turns in these days into a deafening drumrolls climax that evoke ancestral rites, coming to his maximum intensity in hour that Christ expired, when according to the Gospels an earthquake shivered Jerusalem. The ground explodes and the walls vibrate of stormy sound of the drums.

In Calanda Luis Buñuel was born in the year 1900, famous film maker and the first Spanish director who obtained an Oscar. One exists Center of Interpretation devoted to this brilliant film maker, created the year of his centenary.

It is not possible to speak about Calanda without quoting one of the products of his garden that has reached big fame, the late peach of Calanda, whose cultivation goes back to hace more than 30 years, by means of a careful and handmade process of making, pocketing with translucent role one to one the fruits in the tree of manual form, during June and July, to proceed in September and October to the compilation of the peach in his ideal point of color and maturation. (ftes to see links)