Institute De Studies Turolenses:

Entity: Town
Region: Mastership
Inhabitants: 144
Altitude: 993 m
It distances the capital: 113,5 km


This tourist town of the Mastership turolense, honored by Peep Baroja in his novel sale of Mirambel, is located on a ledge rocky along with the river Cantavieja. This fluvial course comes of southern part, where it receives a big contribution of tributaries (More of the Arch, I laugh Winches), all of them deepening hard in lime and marly materials of the Cretaceous low one, on having crossed the reliefs of platforms of the saws of St Kitts, I breathe, to the west of the Town, and of the Peak and Coroneta, in the East of Mirambel, forming the watershed with the ravine of the Gazulla and I laugh at The Cuba. They skimp the forest enclaves, since use agropastoril has provoked the mastery of formations of pasture presided by the lastón and the gorse.

Of notable interest there are some of the archaeological finds that up to the date have taken place in his municipal term, especially the Iberian towns of The Prop and that of the Castellar of More of Dalmau.

His history, like that of the whole region, was tied to the orders military. After being granted in the first moment to the Saint Redeemer, was then a jurisdiction of the templarios and he was part of the Cantavieja charge. In 1243 the Tempering population granted him letter of and in 1299 it received from the king the privilege of celebrating one weekly market. During the wars Carlists Carlist Ramón Cabrera received the offices administrative of the child “estado ” organized by the general in the Mastership. In 1982 the golden medalist of the organization was rewarded with “Europa Nostra ”, for the tasks of beautification and restoration carried out between 1976 and 1980 thanks to the Headquarter of Architecture and Housing of the MOPU.

Mirambel preserves big part of his medieval walls, although her most of these remains semisecret for semi-detached houses. They result clearly visible in several stretches and they are, together with those of Mosqueruela, the most interesting and better preserved than oriental mountainous ranges of Teruel. The linens placed to the north and to this one they survive practically complete, without added later, while in most of the southern linen one supports building line. The western linen is the one that has suffered one major transformation grade. Apparently they were initiated for templarios and they concluded by the sanjuanistas, constructing him in his most between the XIIIth and XIVth centuries. It had at least five towers, of that four survive: two of circular plant in the part north (one along with the portal of San Valero and other one on the portal of the Nuns) and two in the Eras or street of the Angel, one of plant square and another circular letter.
Also five portals survive. The portal of the Nuns (or of Saint Catalina) is placed in front of the square devoted to Sister Consuelo Roca and from him the Biggest street begins, under one semicircular arch (outside) and (intramural) pointed other. In internal part of this construction sees a beautiful lattice of Mudejar tradition, under which a big flat vain one gets ready, corresponding to the open chapel of Santo Tomás. In the portal of the Study placed along with the house Mass, it concludes the Biggest street. Towards the exterior it presents a big pointed chairs arch, while intramural it is defined by a reduced arch. The big one window with secret lattice the chapel dedicated to the Nativity of Virgin. The portal of the Source is part of the set of the square Major, being located along with the house Zurita. Point presents a way arch towards the exterior and other reduced inside. The portal of San Roque is opened in the south linen of the wall. Towards exterior presents a chairs semicircular arch and intramural, a reduced arch. The portal of San Valero locates in the linen northeast of the wall and square plant is inscribed in a prismatic bucket of . Like the previous portals, half a point presents arch of towards the exterior and reduced inside.

Another interesting medieval Mirambel construction was his house - castle constructed apparently by the templarios, although more late it was occupied by the sanjuanistas. Unfortunately, it was beaten in to sell his wood and at present only there survive remains of his walls, constructed with masonry and ashlars in his you form a corner, and several semisecret arches under the debris. In him it was lodging Bad-tempered when it was coming to Mirambel. Also, during the years of the Carlism there were established in him the offices of the Real Printing and of the sealed role.

The square of the Church constitutes a set of big interest and beauty. At her some of the buildings stay of major delight of the population, like the parochial church of Santa Margarita. he knows that already in 1308 Jaime II authorized that the first fruits were devoting themselves to the repair of his church, which was rebuilt or reformed more late, in 1423. Finally, in 1679, before the ruin threat of building, he it remembered to rebuild again completely in the same one solar that the previous church, but being extended towards the cemetery old and towards the streets that were surrounding it. In his decoration they intervened the painters José Gisbert, of Vinaroz, Gaspar Pérez and Ramón Urquinzu, in addition to sculptors Miguel and Ramón Ferrer. I moderate, nevertheless, he had to be repaired after staying practically destroyed in 1837, when the Elizabethan ones sheltered in the church and the ringleader Carlist known as The Serrador ordered to set fire to it, what supposed that only the walls and the tower were saved, in whose carried the traces of the flames still survive. The works of reconstruction concluded in 1843, under the guidance of the architect Valencian Salvador Minero. The biggest reredos was brought of church of San Agustín of Morella, while the Valencian painter Francisco Guillén remained entrusted of the achievement of the linen dedicated to El Salvador. Several members of the family Ferrer, well-known sculptors, took control in the altars, images and her of current chairs of the choir. The wall paintings were Pedro's work Urquizu Veser. In any case, most of the works that was containing this temple did not survive the dismantling of 1936. It eliminated the whole religious images realized by Ramón Ferrer, as well as the chalice that the queen Elizabeth II donated. Yes there saved the chairs of choir and a valuable chasuble gone out of the famous workshops of Lyons, that it gave for his parochial native brother Tomás Aragnad, mercedario. There could be reconstructed the reredos of the high altar, realized by José Colell, for which the majority of the elements was used of previously.
The parochial church of Santa Margarita is a building realized with masonry and good ashlars. It has plant rectangular, divided in a central ship covered with vault vaída and side chapels. The cruise presents a dome vaída, whose intradós it is decorated with casetones and his scallops with four Evangelists. It has high choir to the feet, arranged on an arch reduced. The tower, to the feet, in the side of the gospel, is realized in its entirety with big ashlars and in her they distinguish three bodies in addition to a small auction. Two the first bodies are of square plant and the Superior is octogonal. The front is defined by the access in semicircular arch, flanked by two columns on which he rests a big one entablamento and a triangular pediment divided, interrupted by one small niche in turn crowned by a small curved pediment divided.

Opposite to the parochial church is the consistorial house. This building was still realized in the XVIth century, in replacement of “casas of the place ” medieval, in foot in 1472. In the front principal of this building there survives the date of 1583, which probably alludes at the end of his construction. Realized in masonry and stone ashlar, it has quadrangular plant and flat roofs. His principal front articulates in two plants or bodies. In the first body two big arches open to themselves of half a point that order columns rest on columns and a half Dorian, passing to the market that occupies most of the plant low of the building. In the second body three simple ones open flat windows to themselves with beautiful demolished sills realized in stone. A magnificent decorated wooden eave crowns this front with casetones, rose windows and beautiful carved cantilevers. Also it is interesting the left side front of this building. The area of the right is a continuation of the principal front, with that forms angle. In his first apartment there opens a big way arch to itself point that allows the access to the market, and in his second apartment one flat window with demolished stone sill. In the area of left there get ready a simple door and a flat window. Internally this building is structured in two plants, distributed originally in three corridors parallel to the front principal. The first floor reformed in the XVIIIth century, with the end of locating partly of her the jails of the town. The market was supported, since, in the front corridor, transforming the head office and the later one in 1778, year that written sees in the lintel of principal door. On the principal plant, in whose corridor front part locates the assembly hall, a kidling arranges false plant to herself.

Next to the consistorial house, opposite to the parochial temple, Carlist raises the house Zurita, where supposedly the applicant lodged to throne D. Carlos V in 1837, in his stay motivated by the first one war. In the angle that gives to the slope of the portal of Source sees a curious sundial formed by a stone in form of half moon. Under him there was the Pellerich, stone where it was tying the accused of a public crime.
The house Shepherd is next to the parochial church, from which is separated by it by a narrow alley called Callizo Oscuro. It was constructed by the Uncastillo members of the lowest rank of the nobility. In fact it treats about a set of several buildings. The first one, which gives to the square of the Church, was donated to the parish by D. José Gazulla Escorihuela, being at present a parsonage. Her second, where D. Alfonso and D.ª Blanca stayed during the war Carlist of 1872; and the third one already later to the previous ones.
In the portal of the Nuns the Biggest street begins. In the center of this street, approximately, raises the house of the Julianes (or of Gorreta), a stately building with stone front, front in semicircular arch, flat windows, definite top gallery for vain in semicircular arch and demolished eave of wood. Along with portal of the Study, in which it concludes the Biggest street, is placed the house of Lasota (or he marries Masses), ancient barracks of the Guard Civil in last century, and in this one it has been placed and coffee.
Another set of interest is the street Maelstrom, where there are located two houses that, in spite of exterior goes unnoticed practically in , have big interest. The first one of them is the house of Bínculo (today of More of Gorreta), where he emphasizes a beautiful courtyard of entry, paved with small boulders. The second one, acquaintance as the house of the Boiles (he marries Sides), preserves in one room of the first apartment (solanar) an interesting set of paintings of the beginning of the XVIIth century, based only on lines of black color. In them clearly three cycles can differ from the Ancient Testament, allusive to Sansón, José in Egypt and to several kings of Israel.
Another interesting set is that of the square of Gorse, dedicated in the actuality to D. Nicolás Ferrer y Julve. It is formed by some examples of the best architecture of the Mastership. Between them he emphasizes the house of Gorse and the house of Castellot. The two have similar characteristics: I access with big semicircular arch, flat windows with stones sills, the typical gallery Aragonese and demolished wooden eave.
There has to be quoted also the small square of Four Corners, with ancient butcher's shop.
With the exception of the palatial houses and other buildings important, the hamlet is composed by small constructions of masonry, adobe and wood, in that there lends specially attention to certain elements, like the eaves, grills and carpentries.

The convent of the Augustinian ones is placed along with the portal of Nuns, in the Sister's small square Consuelo Roca. Epoch of Felipe II was founded in , specifically in 1564. The town transferred in usufruct to them the chapel or church of Santa Catalina, his attached hospital and other next lots, and in 1789 the direct domain on convent and church. This church is only one ship, with chapels slightly deep in his wings. His vault has fanlights, but his four stretches are delimited by pointed arches. It was rebuilt in 1831, after being destroyed in the Independence war, and of the current vestry preserves epoch of his foundation. This space is covered with vault of starred crucería and occupies the part low of the circular turret that defends the portal of the Nuns.

Out of the proper city center delimited by the ancient walls, there were constructed numerous chapels that turned in important centers of popular devotion. This way, at little distance of the portal of San Roque finds the chapel of San Roque. It seems that it began in 1690 and ended in 1697. The building, constructed in masonry and stone ashlar, possesses rectangular plant of only one ship covered with barrel vault and fanlights. In the area of the feet there develops a big porch opened in his three sides by way of wide semicircular arches. The interior is decorated with esgrafiado and in the presbytery a reredos survives dieciochesco with columns salomónicas, dated in 1799, but reformed later.
The chapel of the Virgin of the Prop is placed approximately to 1 km of the population, close to the chapel of San Roque. There talks each other of one small and simple baroque building realized in masonry. It has only one ship covered with vault of edge. It is preceded by a wide flat porch, in whose front two arrange to themselves high props octogonales. His interior receives a simple reredos with the image of the Virgin of the Prop.
To 3 km approximately of the population, in direction of Cantavieja, the chapel or sanctum of St Martin is, boss of the Town. Although his origin can mend to the time of the templarios, her construction that today survives is later, as he allows to think the date of 1608 preserved in the attached house to the chapel. East I moderate, constructed in masonry and with stone ashlar, three has ships, aligned cruise and high choir to the feet. The central ship and the arms of the ship cruise cover with barrel vault with fanlights, while the side ships do it with vaults vaídas and the cruise with a big dome on scallops. The interior is set with stuccoes dieciochescos, emphasizing four figures of the Evangelists of the scallops of his big dome. It contains several and interesting reredoses, like the preserved one in the side of epistle, probably of the first half of the XVIth century. Them remaining they are of the XVIIIth century. Fortunately it did not incur any loss during the last civil war.
Shortly before coming to the chapel of St Martin rectangular plant finds it chapel of San Martinico, a simple and small building of with only one ship, access defined by a big one vainly flat and tiled to two waters.
The chapel of St Kitts is placed on top of the mount of the same name. It has rectangular, very elongated plant, covered with roof to two waters. His front is finished off by the simple one bulrush. A table, the rest of some of the reredoses of this temple, keeps in the Diocesan Museum of Teruel.
The chapel of San Jose is to 3 km of the population, in direction to Morella, specifically in the Farmhouse and Bridge Vallés. One portal joins the chapel with the farmhouse and under him there happens the way that he leads to The Bush. It is a simple, realized building basically in masonry. It has rectangular plant and his stretch central is covered with dome on scallops. His interior is set with motives in stucco with topics of cabecitas of angels, garlands in which grape bunches are included, etc.
Finally, it is necessary to mention the chapel of Santa Ann, the most distant of the Town. One gains access to her after there covers approximately 4 km of highway and some others of track in direction of Cantavieja. It is included in the farmhouse of the same name, close to the Portell term. To his holiday, which is celebrated on May 15, rosemaries come of Mirambel, Cantavieja and The Cuba.

The management holidays in honor of San Lamberto and San Roque celebrate in the middle of August, with bull mess and dance of the rolde. “Correr ” the bull for the night streets and with two burning balls in his flagstaffs region is an essential celebration of big tradition in .
Inside the festive calendar, the devotion to San Antonio Abbot has in Mirambel a peculiar celebration that he shares with other Towns of the Mastership castellonense: the Sanantonada. There consists in theatrical representation of the life and temptations of the saint taken to end for the neighbors, in that ironic improvisations are added on the events most emphasized from the local actuality. The night of January 16 there is organized the cavalcade that covers the streets summoning the nations to attend the work. It is headed for tedero, the standard of the brotherhood and the saint, and after them there parade some personages of the representation (the angel, the clown, gentleman), the priest, the prior, the foremen, the authorities, the musicians and finally the riders on knighthood richly enjaezadas. Other personages, Lucifer, Luzbel, the demons, Lad and the Grazing on stubble one, are running ahead. The representation takes place in the square of the Gorse, where temptations of San Anthony stage them for the devil, his resistance and his later retreat to a hut of trunks and branches, call “barraca ”, to which the demons set fire. While bonfire burns it , the riders turn around him in a contest that wins the one who more approaches the fire. This popular theater in honor to the saint protector of the domestic animals includes the Christian devotion to San Anthony and the pagan rite of the fire, both propiciadores of cattle and agrarian fecundity, decisive in the rural societies. The proper sweet of the day of the holiday is the cake of soul, prepared by means of a pasta with flour, oil, firewater, sugar and one filling of pumpkin and honey. In addition to be consuming at home it is distributed between the riders of the covey.
The Town comes to several pilgrimages: on May 1 to the San chapel Cristóbal; on the first Monday of the same month to Our Lady of Holm oak, in Staff, together with Tronchón, Olocau and the proper Staff; on May 16 to Santa Ann, with Cantavieja and The Cuba, and 23 of April, to celebrate San Jorge, and on November 11 to St Martin.


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