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Data of the Town |
Aranda De Moncayo |
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Town |
Aranda of Moncayo |
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Municipality |
Aranda of Moncayo / Region: Tarazona and the Moncayo |
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Province |
Saragossa |
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Community |
Aragon |
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Habt. / Ine 2004 |
228 |
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Town hall |
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Direction |
Major square, 1 |
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ZIP code |
50259 |
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Phone |
976825000 |
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Fax |
976825000 |
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Office Tourism |
To contact with telf. quoted |
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Official web |
Aranda of Moncayo |
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Web of Interest |
Aranda De Moncayo history holidays |
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E-mail municipality |
aranda@dpz.es |
The river Aranda, which descends from the port from the Bigornia, avoids the downtown of the locality to which it gives his baptism, planning a soft curvature to cover, later, to Jarque meeting. But the hamlet of Aranda of Moncayo remains there, packed concerning buildings of the church and the castle, on the peak that is lookout, morion on the abyss. Next of the houses they stagger the fields of sown field, narrow strips of ground that test capricious balances in the height.
The city center remembers his Arab origin in his tracing with narrow and irregular streets and squares that are packed concerning a kidling bobtail and to the two the most important buildings of the locality: castle and the church.
holidays: On the third Sunday of August the holidays are celebrated management in honor to Our Lady of the Virgin of the Remedy. Inside the acts of this holiday they emphasize the popular verbenas and the pilgrimage to the chapel of San Roque. Also another pilgrimage is done, but this one to the Virgin of the Saw, which specifically is always carried out on Monday later to Sunday of Whitsunday. During on October 30 and November 1 the cattle Fair is celebrated.
Inside his municipal term there finds the only reservoir of everything this eventful region, which it is possible to see from the top of the Town in the “mirador ”. It is a question of the reservoir of Maidevera, who gathers water of several ravines of the saw of Tablado. (ftes and text to see links)