The banks of the Jiloca River
Morata de Jiloca welcomes the visitor on the left bank of the river that gives it its name with the remains of what was once a castle of Muslim origin and with the dazzling flickering of the sun’s rays reflected on the ceramics of the north façade of the church of San Martín de Tours, an essential part of Aragonese Mudejar architecture.
Typologically, this church belongs to the group of fortress-churches, with a single nave and chapels between buttresses, and is characterised by the rationality of its structure and its solid, simple elements.
Its Mudejar construction dates from the first decade of the 15th century; the history of the building underwent a reorientation at the end of the 16th century with the construction of a new chancel and the original chancel remaining as a choir at the foot of the church.
Morata de Jiloca welcomes the visitor on the left bank of the river that gives it its name with the remains of what was once a castle of Muslim origin and with the dazzling flickering of the sun’s rays reflected on the ceramics of the north façade of the church of San Martín de Tours, an essential part of Aragonese Mudejar architecture.
Typologically, this church belongs to the group of fortress-churches, with a single nave and chapels between buttresses, and is characterised by the rationality of its structure and its solid, simple elements.
Its Mudejar construction dates from the first decade of the 15th century; the history of the building underwent a reorientation at the end of the 16th century with the construction of a new chancel and the original chancel remaining as a choir at the foot of the church.
Projects Territorio Mudéjar in Morata de Jiloca
Monuments | View the project
Education | View the project
Project Mudetrad | View the project
The Mudejar and geometry Euclidean | View the project
Mudéjar educational guide | View the project
“Circular” Walks with the family | View the project
The wall as skin. The light in the Mudéjar | View the project
Mudéjar RGB | View the project
Assessment of the potential for Muslim -friendly of Territorio Mudéjar | View the project
Projects Territorio Mudéjar en Tobed
Recognition and promotion of traditional architecture through a a series of itineraries.
More information
Town Hall
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Association for Comprehensive Development of the Region of Calatayud and Region of Aranda
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VISIT MORATA DE JILOCA
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Turismo de Aragón
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Turismo Comarca Comunidad de Calatayud
comarcacalatayud.com
Centro de Estudios Bilbilitanos
cebilbilitanos.com
Territorio Mudéjar Network
The city council has been a founding member of Territorio Mudéjar since march 2019.
Islamic layout
Maluenda is a monumental town with an urban layout with Moorish roots that unfolds under the protection of the 9th century rammed-earth castle and its watchtower, popularly known as El Palomar. The castle is of Islamic origin, although archaeological remains show evidence of a possible earlier Celtiberian settlement. The tower is contemporary with the castle and was built by Muslim masters.
The town is one of the most interesting examples of the Mudejar phenomenon in Aragon, in which the best buildings of religious Mudejar architecture appear in areas with no Mudejar architecture at all. This was the case, for example, in Ateca, Tobed and Cervera de la Cañada.
With its trio of churches, Maluenda also shows that Mudejar art prevailed at all social levels and was fully accepted by medieval Aragonese society.
Other urban elements of great interest in the town include the 14th century arch that was closed with a gate and rake and formed part of the town’s defence; the convent of the Discalced Carmelites, and the hermitages – including those of Saints Gervasio and Protasio – due to their location on a vantage point with excellent views of the Jiloca valley.
Mesones de Isuela was, since the 13th century, a Mudejar majority town and its traces are still very present.
At the foot of the castle lies the village where the parish church of La Asunción was built in the Mudejar style in the 16th century and, although it had later additions in the 18th century, it maintains its Mudejar origins intact.
The hallmark of this style is the small but beautiful tower at the foot of the church, built in brick on a masonry base. The tower, built on a single nave covered by star-shaped rib vaults, consists of two sections. The lower one has a square floor plan, a Hispano-Muslim minaret structure and is decorated with multi-armed crosses forming lozenges. The upper one is octagonal and its semicircular arches were opened to house the bells and the clock, for which part of the original openings and decorative panels had to be broken.