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Data of the Town |
Alconchel De Ariza |
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Town |
Alconchel of Ariza |
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Municipality |
Alconchel of Ariza / Region: Calatayud |
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Province |
Saragossa |
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Community |
Aragon |
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Habt. / Ine 2004 |
119 |
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Town hall |
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Direction |
Square of Villareal, s/n |
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ZIP code |
42269 |
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Phone |
975327309 |
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Fax |
975327309 |
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Office Tourism |
To contact with telf. quoted |
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Official web |
Alconchel De Ariza |
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Web of Interest |
Alconchel of Ariza information and sights |
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E-mail municipality |
alconche@dpz.es |
To the south-west of the region of Community of Calatayud finds the municipal term of Alconhel de Ariza. Located in grounds of dry land and grain-producing cultivation, the Town breaks the yellowish color and ocher of this cultivation with his different ones constructions.
The name of Alconchel has Arab roots, although his situation frontier has not propitiated the conservation of his past, since the Castilian-Aragonese wars have marked his history, to the equal one that the majority of the Towns of the Community of Calatayud.
Popular housings with the proper features of the architecture traditions of the area that get up in a labyrinthine framework urban derived from his Arab origin. In the center of the locality it finds the Square of Villarreal, where the principal ones find buildings: the parochial church of Our Lady, of good architecture to the Castilian style, without tower and with the belfry in the typical bulrush. The interior answers to the same style, with ionic capitals work those that a starred vault supports and adorned with six reredoses of the XVIIth to XVIIIth century, between which he emphasizes the biggest reredos, of wood carved and devoted to the Virgin.
Of interest the holidays in honor San Pascual Bailón, who is celebrated on May 17 with pilgrimage to the chapel of the Saint and being interpreted "dance". (ftes and text to see links)