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Data of the Town |
Fortanete |
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Town |
Fortanete |
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Municipality |
Fortanete / Region: Mastership |
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Province |
Teruel |
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Community |
Aragon |
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Habt. / Ine 2004 |
208 |
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Town hall |
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Direction |
Square of Spain, 2 |
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ZIP code |
44143 |
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Phone |
978778101 |
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Fax |
978778101 |
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Office Tourism |
To contact with telf. quoted |
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Official web |
Fortanete |
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Web of Interest |
Fortanete nature and art |
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E-mail municipality |
ayuntamiento@fortanete.net |
In the region turolense of the Mastership, between mountains and pine groves, we will find Fortanete, considered as "Her Jewel Conceals of the Mastership". A small mountain Town, which formerly was a well inhabited and prosperous town.
Monuments
Consistorial house
Antiquity: XVIth century.
It is a question of a building of Renaissance style. He emphasizes for his beauty the Assembly hall of rectangular form, roof of wood and windows with sill moldurado. In the front it has painted a sundial, a shield with "Victor" and the archiepiscopal hairdo in color.
Church of the Purification
Antiquity: XVIIth century.
It is a baroque temple of masonry and hewing of stone with three ships. central ship is covered with vault of half a cannon. The cruise is covered with dome of orange average on scallops and lantern. Tower to feet of three bodies; the body of the bells with four vain ones crowns with stone capital and weathercock.
House of the Dukes of Medinaceli
Antiquity: XVIth century.
Small palace of Renaissance style, he emphasizes the balcony of the front princiapal and his eave of double flight.
Chapel of Loreto
Antiquity: XVIIth century.
Out of the city center, vault of half a cannon has a ship of two stretches covered with with fanlights. Decorated wood preserves an important eave of
The Town has placed in the vale of the Rio Fortanete, between two robust mountainous alignments, the Saw of La Cañada and them Saws of Tarascón and The Flagstones with summits that exceed them 1800 meters of altitude.
Very close the nature offers to us spectacular places as there are the Pine groves of Fortanete and the Ravine of Zoticos, almost in border with the region of Gúdar-Javalambre. (ftes. and text to see links)