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Data of the Town |
Villel |
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Town |
Villel |
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Municipality |
Villel / Region: Community of Teruel |
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Province |
Teruel |
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Community |
Aragon |
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Habt. / Ine 2004 |
347 |
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Town hall |
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Direction |
Square of Tadeo Calomarde, 1 |
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ZIP code |
44131 |
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Phone |
978680025 |
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Fax |
978680025 |
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Office Tourism |
To contact with telf. quoted |
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Official web |
Villel origins, architecture, holidays |
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Web of Interest |
Villel |
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E-mail municipality |
patronatoturismo@dpteruel.es |
The population decrease has been the half in last fifteen years; the population decreases from the first ones decades of the century (1237 hab in fact in 1920). Town hall of province of Teruel. 823 m of altitude. Public phone. School public.
It is provided with an eventful history behind him, being especially dynamic in times of the Christian Reconquest. It was taken definitely by Alfonso II at the end of the XIIth century, going on later to hands of the Order of Montegaudio and, in the century XIII to that of the Tempering.
The parochial church of the Virgin of the Snow (XVIIIth century) is a big masonry construction, with three ships, covering with vaults váidas; the tower of masonry and brick has five bodies; fronts with columns bulbiformes in his low third; it preserves a wall reredos of the S.XVIII.
The sanctum of the Fuensanta (S.XVI) lifts to 2 km to the west of town; a work of masonry is, with an enormous ship, a covering with vault of starred crucería and dome on an octogonal in head, after the reform of the S.XVIII; the tower is of masonry: inside he keeps a baroque reredos and an image of Christ (S.XVIII
Villel is provided with housings of rural tourism that make the stay more attractive in this locality of the low Aragon.
Holidays: From September 6 until September 10 the holidays are celebrated in honor of the Virgin of the Fuensanta, a pilgrimage being realized to the chapel of the Virgin. (ftes and text to see links)