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Data of the Town

Torralba De Ribota

Town

Torralba of Ribota

Municipality

Toralba of Ribota / Region: Calatayud

Province

Saragossa

Community

Aragon

Habt. / Ine 2004

191

 

Town hall

Direction

Main road, s/n

ZIP code

50311

Phone

976899302

Fax

976899302

Office Tourism

To contact with telf. quoted

Official web

Torralba De Ribota

Web of Interest

Torralba of Ribota photographic gallery

E-mail municipality

tribota@dpz.es
 

 

Torralba owes his name undoubtedly to conjunction in Latin of Turris and Dawn (White Tower) that derived in current place name.

In our days even it is possible to admire the tower in color stone white to the one that added to him a few decades ago a roof that hid the ancient battlements. The reference to Ribota is given for the river of scarce rain diet that passes at a certain distance of the city center

Torralba of Ribota is provided with one of the best exponents of Aragonese Mudejar. The church fortitude is of style Gothic - Cistercian and the work ended in the XIIIth century. ORDER of On October 15, 2001, of the Department of Culture and Tourism, for that completes the original declaration of Good of Interest Cultural of the so called Church of San Félix in Torralba de Ribota (Saragossa), in accordance with the First Transitory Disposition of the Law 3/1999, of March 10, of Aragonese Cultural heritage. Official bulletin of Aragon

I ANNEX I. - DESCRIPTION OF THE GOOD AND HIS INTEGRAL PARTS, BELONGINGS AND ACCESSORIES

It is a question of a Mudejar church - fortitude of the XIVth and XVth centuries.

It consists of the only ship of two stretches covered with crucería simply and side chapels between the towers - buttresses. The head is formed by three chapels of testero rectum.

The defensive character grants the tribune that covers the part top of the side chapels and the presbytery, as well as them two towers of square plant and circular central buttress that flank the western gable end, fulfilling the belfry function the placed one in the north-western angle.

The exterior decoration both of the fronts and of the towers bases in motives realized in brick highlighted how, for example, esquinillas, bonds and crossings.

The Mudejar front is opened in pointed arch, re-squared for alfiz and with the hairnets decorated with plasterings.

To the interior he emphasizes the wall decoration by means of agramilados and paintings with geometric motives, the plasterings of the closing of vain of the ship and the alfarje of the choir in high place placed to the feet.

His conservation state is good.

INTEGRAL REAL ESTATES OF THE GOOD:

1) Reredos of the Martyrdom of San Félix, of the XVth century.

2) Reredos of St Martin of Tours, of the XVth century.

3) Reredos of San Andrés, of the XVth century.

4) Reredos of the Virgin, of first half of the XVIth century.

5) Reredos of Santa Barbara, of second half of the XVIth century.

6) Reredos of San Ignacio of Loyola, of the ends of the XVIIth century.

7) Major reredos of San Félix, of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.

8) Templete-stand of the Holiest, of polychrome wood with multitude of sculptures, of the XVIth century.

9) Calvary of polychrome wood, of the XIVth century.

10) Gothic Virgin without Child of polychrome wood, of the XIVth century.

11) Gothic Virgin with Child of polychrome wood, of XIVth century.

12) Virgin of the Rosary, style Small business, of polychrome wood, of XVIth century.

13) Child of the Ball, of the XVIIth century.

14) Gothic processional cross of gilded silver, of the XIVth century.

15) Virgin of the silver Prop, of the XVIIth century.

On March 25 there take place the holidays of the Virgin of Cigüela coming in pilgrimage to his chapel from Aniñón, Calatayud, Cervera, Terrer and Torralba de Ribota. The management holidays, in honor of San Félix, they are celebrated on August 1.

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