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Data of the Town |
Tobed |
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Town |
Tobed |
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Municipality |
Tobed / Region: Calatayud |
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Province |
Saragossa |
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Community |
Aragon |
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Habt. / Ine 2004 |
251 |
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Town hall |
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Direction |
Square San Pedro, s/n |
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ZIP code |
50325 |
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Phone |
976629101 |
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Fax |
976628826 |
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Office Tourism |
To contact with telf. quoted |
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Official web |
Tobed |
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Web of Interest |
Tobed information and images |
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E-mail municipality |
tobed@dpz.es |
Important municipality bilbilitano placed on the foot of the Saw of Vicor and surrounded by other spurs mountainous, as there are the Saw of Algairén and that of Coming into ear.
It is provided with a few remote origins, since Tobed turns out to be named like Tovenissa in the Epigrams of Martial.
In the XIIth century the Town happened to depend on the dominion of the order of the Holy Tomb. Tobed together with other Towns depended of priory of Calatayud, up to the confiscation of the goods of Clergy in 1837. In 1780 commander constructed himself a residence for known like the house - palace.
Her Church of The Virgin of Tobed is a style Church - fortitude Gothic - Mudejar situated in the municipality of Tobed constructed between 1356 and 1385.
Patrimony of the Humanity was declared, along with another 6 Aragonese monuments, especially emphasized between the set of monuments of Mudejar style considered by the UNESCO in 2001.
Promoted by the Order of the Holy Tomb of Calatayud, it is a prototype of church - fortitude, the only concept in the Spain of the epoch. Outwardly it is conceived for the defense, with a gallery perimetral and a defense adarve.
The Order of the Holy Tomb decided to construct it before the war between Pedro IV of Aragon the Ceremonious one and Peter I of Castile Cruel. It was serving like Church and like defense close to the border with Castile
Sights
Castle of Tobed
Chapel of San Valentín
Stove
Church of the Virgin
Parochial church of San Pedro
Palace of the Commanders
Temple of Our Lady
The building that receives at present the Town hall of Tobed goes to to lodge soon a center of interpretation of the Mudejar who will be provided with an investment for 300.000 euros.
For the area the GM circulates 90 Earths of the Moncayo and Iberian System zaragozano; he is surrounded by a rural scenery of pines and holm oaks, splashed with sources and springs; the Saw of Vicor offers us wonderful places in which to contemplate singular panoramas, up to coming to the well-known Sickles of the Landmark. (fte and texts to see links and wikipedia)