Town hall

The place name of "Turleque" is mixed, Latin American - Mozarab. The prefix "tur" stems from the Latin American "turris", her completion "eque" is typical of the Mozarab, therefore "Turleque" means: "Torrecilla", "Torrechuela", or "Torrezuela".

 MONUMENTS:

HOUSE OF MEDIATES
His mission was to serve as residence to the managers of the prior and to collect the taxes, so much in cash as in kind. We lack papers on his origin and construction, but it is supposed that it is in 1248, in which population grants to the council of Turleque the Letter to herself of for the Order of Saint John.
Current medical office.

PAROCHIAL CHURCH NTRA MRS. OF THE ASUNCIÓN
Church of a ship with barrel vault split into six stretches for semicircular arches and Dorian pilasters, without apse. To every side of the first five stretches, semicircular arches open chapels of little depth to themselves for , with the central one passing to the door. baptistry to the left and the vestry to the right, the access to the towers to the feet. Front finished off by pediment and two towers of brick, squared with two bodies separated by fascia of ashlars. Two clocks in perpendicular faces and superposed bell in the front of the tower of the left, finished off both for capital with ball, weathercock and cross.
The front is finished off by pediment and two towers. The planes of the parish assumed to the architect D. Juan de Villanueva and D. Julián del Álamo. It was financed by the infante of Spain D. Gabriel Antonio, big prior of the order of Saint John of Malta, cooperating also the whole Turleque population.

Style: Neoclassicist | Epoch: XVIII | Well of cultural interest

ROLL
It is supposed that I get up in 1.751, it dates in that king Fernando VI signed the authorization of title of Town to Turleque.
The roll or pillory consists of a stone column placed on a few bleachers where the culprits were exposed to public shame, serving this way as lesson to the rest of the neighbors. They were located to exit of the populations, in the most journeyed way, previously it was placed in the Mother of the son-in-law highway, since this population was a head of the Priory. It is a base on which it raises a column of smooth shaft with capital

Epoch: XVIIIth century.

(Fte.-Texto Delegation to see link)