This locality had his origin in the ancient Town of Alcañicejo that was rescued to the Muslims by king Alfonso I in 1123.

From this moment it goes on to hands of the Brothers Fruela Pelayo, Don Juan Ximenez de Urrea, the Sources house, the family Duval and Marcilla and finally in the XVIIIth century to that of Urzurrún de Alsanza to which in 1704 king Felipe V granted the Marquess's title of Tosos.

His picturesque city center places to the skirts of the acquaintances Tiny rock and Sliced rock. In him he emphasizes the parochial church of Santa Maria, construction of Mudejar style reformed in style baroque during the XVIIth century. It preserves the square tower, with Mudejar decoration, while the front is neoclassic.

Her Cistercian chapel of The Saint is in the region of the Field of Cariñena, in the left shore of the river Huerva very close to point where this one remeek in the marsh of The Torcas. The place belongs to the municipal Tosos term.

It has been declared well Catalogued of the Cultural heritage of Aragon, for the Order of November 26, 2002 of the BOA.

This locality partly is well-known for his big wine, it is not of to miss given to the big extensions of cultivation of the vine in his territory. Also it counts about the bank of the Rio Huerva of an extensive garden.

The biggest holidays are in honor to San Bartolomé on August 24 and they last concerning 4 or 5 days and the following Saturday it is celebrated the day of the cow, in which the main road celebrates a dinner of the cow along . The minor holidays in honor it celebrates Santa Barbara at the end of May or beginning of June, depending on it dates in which it falls down this year holy week, and the chapel does a pilgrimage to itself to in honor of the boss in you were. (fte and texts to see links)

ORDER of 26 of November, 2002, of the Department of Culture and Tourism, for the one that there declares Catalogued Good of the Aragonese Cultural heritage the «Chapel of the Saint» in Tosos (Saragossa).

I ANNEX I.-DESCRIPCION DEL GOOD

Epoch: XIIIth century.

Style: Cistercian

Description:

The temple, today in ruins, was part of a major construction, being probably the church of a monastery of the one that today scarce remains preserve. The church presents structure Cistercian, having begun to construct in masonry and ashlar to continue in brick from the head, being one of the earliest Aragonese monuments in which the brick was used as constructive material, supposing a point of reference to the later creation of the Mudejar art.

It was provided with three ships of three stretches and triple semicircular apse. In the actuality they survive only part of the head and of wall of the feet, where the front is located.

In the head the central and right apses are appreciated, as well as part of the first stretch of right ship and remains of the apse left. The central apse counts with a straight stretch covered with vault of pointed cannon and the semicircular stretch covered with vault ovenproof; the right apse is covered with reinforced ovenproof vault with two ashlar nerves; the first stretch of the ship covers with vault of simple crucería of nerves of half a point, realized in brick without aplantillar. The decoration limits to the capitals that take the arches of the apses down, using simple motives geometric and esquematizaciones vegetable.

The front is realized in brick and is trumpet-shaped, counting with five archivolts of half a point that they take down in stones fasciae decorated with flowers of four sheets; on the front a brick course develops in esquinilla.

ANNEX II.-PLANO OF DELIMITATION OF THE «CHAPEL OF THE SAINT» IN TOSOS (SARAGOSSA) AND HIS ENVIRONMENT Official Bulletin of Aragon