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Data of the Town |
Urrea De Gaen |
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Town |
Urrea of Gaen |
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Municipality |
Urrea of Gaen / Region: Under Martin |
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Province |
Teruel |
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Community |
Aragon |
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Habt. / Ine 2004 |
546 |
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Town hall |
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Direction |
Square of Spain, 1 |
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ZIP code |
44593 |
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Phone |
978821004 |
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Fax |
978821449 |
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Office Tourism |
To contact with telf. quoted |
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Official web |
Urrea De Gaen |
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Web of Interest |
Urrea of Garen the route of the drum |
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E-mail municipality |
aytourrea@elconsultor.es |
In Urrea the Peach cultivation stands out of Calanda, and olive trees, for the Olive oil making, products that are provided with Denomination of Origin. His ancient helmet urban was closed by four arches called of the Millstone, of Square, of San Roque and of the Virgin of Arches. trace of his past Arab., since not in vain it was the last mosque of the Low Aragon. In his streets we find good examples of popular architecture, between those that there emphasizes the building of the XVIIth century that the current one receives town hall. The neuralgic center of the Town is the square of Spain, also there is interesting the house in which the academician was born and writer Pedro Laín Entralgo
By the beginning of the tradition of touching the drum and the big drum in our population, there do not exist written documents that confirm to us his beginning. At present salt in Holy Week 350 drums and 180 big drums approximately, he codes important in a population of 613 inhabitants, and that it are explained for return to his ground of countryman that live out of her. "Breaking of the hour" takes place on Thursday Saint, at 24:00. The Holy Burial is the procession more important
On two small nearby hills the chapels of the Calvary rise and Barbarian elk, offering good perspectives of the hamlet and the fertile plain surrounding, where there are gathered the canes that once worked set off towards the foreigner to be used in his instruments for the best musicians of the continent. (ftes and text to see links)