On 13 September we celebrated that it was six years ago that this network project saw the light of day after several years of work: Territorio Mudéjar was set up as a network for the management of heritage resources linked to the Mudejar, under the umbrella of the World Heritage brand held by some of our partners, but above all with quality in management as a guide, focused on the conservation of our tangible and intangible heritage as a key to the local development of our villages always as the north of the compass.

This six-year journey has brought us to 2024 with a powerful and consolidated network of management, knowledge, connections and projects that includes 47 villages, more than 50 researchers and transdisciplinary professionals, trainees and collaborations in international projects.

As you know, we like to celebrate by working and we are currently working on the new calls for Research Stays and Artistic Residencies, which we will soon make public. Our commitment to innovation and the promotion of projects that contribute to the development of villages and the responsible and sustainable use of cultural and natural heritage resources is proving to be a success. This year, the call will come with some new features that will allow us to further strengthen this network of knowledge about the Mudejar culture of our partner villages and to advance in the new uses of heritage.

Our work in the field is another of our hallmarks. You know that the Territorio Mudéjar team works in and for your villages and, thanks to the Routes project, in this work we ensure that the work we do is disseminated as widely as possible and, increasingly, there are visitors who accompany us to get to know your villages, discover your heritage and resources or get to know them in more depth. Always in small groups, with a very carefully planned programme and a route designed by heritage professionals. This year we are doing 14 different routes covering 47 destinations and the demand has meant that in this second part of the year we are increasing the number of transport places in order to be able to meet the requests.

In addition, we have taken a further step towards a la carte routes. These tailor-made heritage tours allow us to offer all the services of our partner localities to the traveller and aim to ensure that those who take them enjoy highly personalised explanations. We have already launched the first ones and we are working to give them a more international approach that combines a recreational and a scientific learning approach. Thanks to our network, in this case our participation with the Medina Network, these proposals will be presented in the next few months in Malaysia and Qatar…

We continue to travel outside our territory to bring it closer to new audiences and specialised forums. Thus, as the next event on the calendar, this week we are invited to the IX Iberian Meeting of World Heritage Managers in Sintra (Portugal), jointly organised by the Spanish and Portuguese Ministries of Culture.

And we continue to participate in national and international projects with the Turin Polytechnic Institute, the World Heritage Cultural Landscapes Alliance and other partners that make us grow as a network.

We think about the future and new professionals. That is why every year we train students thanks to the Desafío and Unita programmes – we are going to extend two of the scholarships – we collaborate with UNIVERSA and we advise on other projects of the Spanish Sustainable Development Network.

We have not lost our hallmark of providing personalised advice to our partner towns and, along these lines, we have developed special agreements with, for example, Ricla, where a dozen activities have been developed with the participation of local agents, or in Fuentes de Ebro, where we have just started the second phase and where technical support has been provided to make the heritage elements more accessible in terms of interpretation. And we are making progress on new agreements, as in the case of San Mateo de Gállego, which will soon be launched.

Our travellingexhibition “Territorio Mudéjar: the guide” continues to travel kilometres to take its didactic vision to all the towns and villages. Its next stop is Tarazona and soon it will also be on display in Mainar.

The Territorio Mudéjar network is also growing every year in terms of projects and this sixth birthday has left us with a very special one to develop. We are working to become the documentation centre for the Mudejar. Based on a special collaboration with the General Directorate of Heritage of the Government of Aragon, we are digitising all the files of more than 250 Mudejar buildings with some kind of protection according to the Aragonese Cultural Heritage Law. In this way, on the one hand, we generate our own documentary heritage, necessary for the knowledge of our fundamental resources, and on the other hand, we work to help the management processes in our localities to be agile, making available to the technical teams of our partner town councils the most complete information on the Mudejar buildings, essential for intervention, conservation or restoration projects, as well as, for example, for the application for funding through the different calls for subsidies.

Thank you very much to all of you for joining us and adding to these six years.

We continue to weave the web.