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Data of the Town

Belchite

Town

Belchite

Municipality

Belchite / Region: The Field of Belchite

Province

Saragossa

Community

Aragon

Habt. / Ine 2004

1633

 

Town hall

Direction

Pza. of the Town hall, 1

ZIP code

50130

Phone

976830003

Fax

976830514

Office Tourism

To contact with telf. quoted

Official web

Belchite

Web of Interest

Belchite information and photographic gallery

E-mail municipality

belchite@dpz.es
   

Belchite is nailed in one of the most arid areas of the region, and it was an important Mudejar town. Nevertheless, it was destroyed in year 1937 during the Civil war, for what the population left the place and created a new establishment to 500 meters of the ancient one

The old monuments are in ruins, but the beauty still lasts to sorrow of the bombs and the abandonment suffered from the completion of civil war.

Interest places:

Ruins of the Old Town, destroyed by the Civil war of 1.936 and his later abandonment.
Ethnological museum.
Refuge of wild fauna "The Lomaza"
Ornithological reservation "The Planerón".
Sanctum of Our Lady of the Pueyo. to (see)
Ruins of the Church of St Martin of Tours, Mudejar (XIVth Century)
Ruins of the Tower of the Clock (ancient Church of Saint John) (Century XVI).
Ruins of the Convent of San Rafael (You join Dominicans) (XVIIIth Century)
Ruins of the Convent of San Agustín (Augustinian Brothers) baroque (XVIIIth century).

To four kilometers of the locality, in direction of Fuendotados, it locates sanctum of Our Lady of the Pueyo, of the XVIIth century. It is a question of one of the most important baroque sanctums of Aragon. His we find origin in a chapel of the XIIIth century that, along of the centuries, was extended up to turning into the set that today we admire. It consists of different buildings, Renaissance men and baroques, emphasizing the temple in itself like the most important of they.

The Center of Interpretation of the Steppes of Belchite allows her global vision and musealizada of the characteristics and importance of environment of the Region. Although traditionally the steppes have been treated as a pejorative way, in the last years, and specifically in Aragon, the variety and peculiarity of these ecosystems allow to discover a typical fauna and vegetation of big hereditary value. The Belchite steppes, with a category of protection of big interest, are the Lomaza and the Planerón, and from the Center of Interpretation one works first of all with groups, her most of school them, which allow to inculcate at an age early the importance of the arid ecosystems of the area.

Holidays: The minor holidays begin the Easter Sunday that are celebrated for three days, the pilgrimage being realized, on Tuesday following, to the sanctum of the Virgin of the Pueyo. During on the 9th and 10th of August the holidays are celebrated in honor to San Lorenzo, with the traditional chickens career. On September 14 are the biggest holidays in honor to the Exaltation of the Santa Cruz. On November 11 St Martin of Tours is celebrated, boss of locality. (ftes. and text to see links)

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