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Data of the Town

Fonfria

Town

Fonfria

Municipality

Fonfria / Region: Jiloca

Province

Teruel

Community

Aragon

Habt. / Ine 2004

25

 

Town hall

Direction

High street, s/n

ZIP code

44493

Phone

978725001

Fax

978725060

Office Tourism

To contact with telf. quoted

Official web

Fonfria, history, patrimony, nature, holidays, customs

Web of Interest

Fonfria

E-mail municipality

patronatoturismo@dpteruel.es
   

Locality located to 30 kilometers of Calamocha, capital of the region of the Jiloca.

The urban composition of this small population is shaped about his Parochial Church, with an irregular alignment and not defined of his streets of which scarcely it is provided with half a dozen, framed in two quarters, with popular proper denominations that remember the name of the quarter, High and Low, or that of the existence in her of an element The Source, The Stove, The Square of the Elm tree and her of the Way Allueva for his orientation.

It is like his name Indian, place of numerous rafts and sources, of that in two of these the river Huerva is born. Contrasts have given themselves fortresses : while in normal times of rains and snowfalls it is a place chosen by the helicopters to load and to replenish water for to extinguish fires, in other dry seasons it has been had to them that to supply the mouth water in trucks cisterns from the Delegation Provincial of Teruel. At present different dry seasons of these exist sources as those of the Crow or that of Pitarque. Between those who still support his fluency they are of the High knoll, Prao Larga, Source Mingo, Carramor... and minor others without proper denomination

His local history is studied scantly, in her one speculates that king Jaime I, conqueror to the Arabs of Aragonese grounds and Valencian, was for these places leaving trace of his presence. It was a ground of realengo, village until 1711, place in 1785, it belonged to the sobrecullida, path, and corregimiento of Daroca, finally to have proper Town hall in the reorganization administrative carried out in 1834. Considering his altitude was the second line defensive with strategic alertness point in the Peak of the Saint in the Wars of the Pedros that Castilian kept and Aragonese.

Of the city center, placed in full saw of Cucalón, there is that to emphasize the parochial church dedicated to San Miguel Archangel, with a beautiful tower. The temple is dated in the XVIIIth century, although it preserves elements of an ancient construction of the XVIth century and XVII. In his interior he emphasizes a set of style rococo of big artistic value.

Of civil construction, to point out convalescent Old stone Source, the building of the Town hall with pawl of masonry and market in his first floor, the central one and newly inaugurated park with monument to the farmer, the ancient washer, an interesting set of sources, drinking troughs, raft and well elegant orchards. The ancient ones schools are re-turned into Town hall and into Social center. A snack bar has been constructed with barbecues.

The fonfrianos are known by "diapers" that they say that due to one double characteristic, for a supposed natural tone of certain evil humor and for an ancient way of dressing that they had, with pants of wide width.

(ftes. and text ANGEL ALCAÑIZ GUTIERREZ, JOAQUIN I STAND OUT BETÉS. to see links)

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