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Data of the Town |
Monteagudo Del Castillo |
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Town |
Monteagudo of the Castle |
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Municipality |
Monteagudo of the Castle / Region: Gudar-Javalambre |
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Province |
Teruel |
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Community |
Aragon |
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Habt. / Ine 2004 |
67 |
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Town hall |
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Direction |
Square of the Pawl, 1 |
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ZIP code |
44146 |
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Phone |
978774163 |
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Fax |
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Office Tourism |
To contact with telf. quoted |
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Official web |
Monteagudo Del Castillo |
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Web of Interest |
Monteagudo information |
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E-mail municipality |
patronatoturismo@dpteruel.es |
The urban set preserves a certain air stately owed largely to the large house of the Luxuriant ones, with big rejería balcony and marked out by a beautiful nobiliary shield. Together to her one finds the arcades of the Eras, step that in formerly it was using for the threshing.
It is necessary to emphasize the temple of Our Lady of the Angels, elevated in the XVIth century, answering to Gothic and Renaissance models.
The Monteagudo castle constitutes one of the fortifications more impressive and in the better state of conservation of the region murciana. Given his military character, his emplacement answers to strategic motivations.
Of his history there give faith the Arab sources who speak about the castle of Monteagudo already in the XIth century, but it is not until the XIIth, with government of Ibn Mardanish when important works are realized. During the Low Middle Age, the Christian sources gather the step from the successive mayors and the most important events happened in the fortitude, like the presence in her of Alfonso X Wise person or that of Jaime II; at the end of the XIXth century the fortitude is already only one usable ruin for the neighbors.
Made with mortar garden walls, it is distributed and organized in three platforms or levels, making use of the differences of the area, where there are distributed cisterns, stays, stores, rooms and constructions with another functionality. The towers that flank everything the enclosure form corners of renext angles, much characteristics in the faction mardanisí.
It is necessary to mention the fact that on the top of the peak and dominating the vale, we find the apology monument to the Heart of Jesus, majestic sculpture 14 meters high, designed in 1951 for artist Nicolás Martínez. This monumental work, which enjoys of big devotion between the inhabitants of the district, treats in reality of a reply of another previous sculpture that was constructed in 1926 with the patrocino of the mayor of Murcia Francisco Martínez García and destroyed during II Republic.
Placed in a hill of a high plateau crowned by the castle; the population names two agreements: that of 1254, of alliance Navarrese - Aragonese against Castile, and that of 1291, who supposes share-out between Castile and Aragon of the north of Africa: in 1374 it is devastated by the Castilians.
Gastronomicamente to emphasize the porridges, the crumbs and the garlic soup. (ftes and text to see linksy http://es.wikipedia.org)