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Data of the Town

Torrelapaja

Town

Torrelapaja

Municipality

Torrelapaja / Region: Calatayud

Province

Saragossa

Community

Aragon

Habt. / Ine 2004

36

 

Town hall

Direction

Main road, s/n

ZIP code

50316

Phone

976847285

Fax

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Office Tourism

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Official web

Torrelapaja art and culture

Web of Interest

Torrelapaja information

E-mail municipality

torrelap@dpz.es
   

House of San Millan: DECREE 286/2001, of November 6, of the Government of Aragon, for that declares himself Well of Cultural Interest, in the category of Monument, the so called House of San Millán, in Torrelapaja (Saragossa)

The house of San Millán is a civil building constructed in masonry combined with stone ashlar in the angles and the front, opened in semicircular arch and finished off by an image of the saint sheltered by a niche.

The construction is of Renaissance style and it consists of a courtyard centrally squared concerning which several stays are distributed, transformed in the course of time to adapt themselves to his different ones uses, although, originally, it was the house of charity where it was receiving the pilgrims who were coming to venerate the San relics Millán, preserved in the placed church faces.

In height three apartments are observed, although the last one realized in brick is a fruit of a later reform. This is the closed only one to the courtyard, since the two first ones open to him by means of arches reduced supported in stones columns in the first apartment and of plaster in the second one. His conservation state is deficient

Church of Our Lady of Malanca: DECREE 290/2001, of November 6, of the Government of Aragon, for that declares himself Well of Cultural Interest, in the category of Monument, the so called Church of Our Lady of Malanca in Torrelapaja (Saragossa).

There talks each other of a church of the only ship of two stretches with chapels side in the first one and straight head preceded by one presbytery for which side walls open two small chapels to themselves excavated in .

Originally the head was semicircular, in tuning with style Gothic - Renaissance man of the construction of the XVIth century, but in XVIIth century this one reformed, her closing with testero rectum and the side of the Epistle being leaned in the Chapel of the Virgin of Malanca, who came to substitute the ancient Mozarabic eremitorio that pilgrims were frequenting them .

The Chapel of the Virgin stands out for his multicolored baroque decoration of plasterings and wall paintings that narrate the life of San Millán. Along with her there rises a massive tower of built square plant in ashlar.

The rest of the factory is of masonry combined with chairs in the angles and his conservation state is good.

The environment comprises an area that includes all the real estate that border on her, as well as the fronts that influence so much in Street of the Church as in the biggest Square, included the front of the House of San Millán. Also the attached buildings include that are inside the proper enclosure of the Church where originally the cemetery was placed

INTEGRAL REAL ESTATES

- Size sedate you of the Virgin of Malanca. XIIIth century.

- Reliquary of San Millán. XVIII s.


- Major reredos of San Millán. XVII s.


- Reredos of the Virgin of Malanca. XVIIth century.

- Reredos of the Virgin of the Rosary. XVIIIth century.

- Reredos of the Virgin of the Prop. XVIIIth century.

- Reredos of San Anthony. XVIIIth century.

- Reredos of the Saint Christ. XVIIIth century.

(source: Official bulletin of Aragon)

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