Territorio Mudéjar announces a new edition of its research stays and artistic residencies to study, raise awareness and develop projects through rural heritage.

Territorio Mudéjar is holding the sixth edition of its Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis research stays and projects to develop innovative and sustainable proposals on cultural and natural heritage that have a direct impact on the 49 member towns and promote their visibility and awareness. Those interested can apply for three research stays for projects and one artistic residency and must submit their proposals by 31 October. This year, as a new feature, the grants are being offered in partnership with other entities, such as the parish of La Seo de Zaragoza and the Centro Integral de Desarrollo del Alabastro (Alabaster Development Centre), and with international projects, such as the European ReliHE project, linked to religious heritage in rural areas. This will enrich the study of the management and conservation of Mudejar heritage resources and amplify their impact on the territory.

Specifically, Territorio Mudéjar will award three research grants for projects, each worth a maximum of €7,500. As highlighted by Charo Lázaro, the Provincial Council of Zaragoza’s representative for Culture, these grants are awarded for projects and artistic residencies aimed at “studying, raising awareness and carrying out real projects through the heritage of our rural environment”. The aim, explained Lázaro, is to develop “innovative and sustainable proposals on cultural and natural heritage that have a direct impact on the 49 member villages of Territorio Mudéjar and promote their visibility and awareness”.

Proposals must include a physical stay in one or more partner locations, demonstrate a direct impact on at least three of them, and provide evidence of the influence of this impact on the rest of the territory. “They seek to attract networks of professionals who work directly from the locations, drawing on their life experience in the villages of Territorio Mudéjar, rather than remaining at a theoretical level,” emphasised Victoria Trasobares, director of the Territorio Mudéjar association.

The modalities that can be applied for are:

1. The uses of heritage: Study, diagnosis and pilot cases in the villages of Territorio Mudéjar. This stay is being carried out in collaboration with the European project Religious Heritage in Rural Areas (ReliHE) led by the Polytechnic University of Turin, in which Territorio Mudéjar is a stakeholder through the Provincial Council of Zaragoza as a partner in the project. The scholarship is intended to study, diagnose and propose pilot cases on the historical uses of religious heritage in Territorio Mudéjar and its current state, as well as to explore the strategic role of this heritage in rural environments. Among other things, the research will result in a methodological guide for the possible and sustainable long-term uses of these assets.

“This initiative capitalises on the exchange of experiences and best practices among the international partners participating in REliHE and opens up new avenues of work to address the urgent challenge of rethinking our rural religious heritage,” explains Irene Ruiz, coordinator of the REliHE project.

2. Models for managing monuments and their surroundings from the perspective of authenticity and preventive conservation: Study, diagnosis and case studies. In partnership with the Parish Church of La Seo, Cathedral of El Salvador in Zaragoza the scholarship will be used to develop a series of proposals for the area known as Parroquieta de La Seo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and at least two other buildings in the villages of Territorio Mudéjar, proposing preventive conservation measures for the selected properties and their protected surroundings, proposing actions to improve their preventive conservation, and developing pilot actions to enhance the uses of the spaces and their territorial integration. The methodology obtained from this stay should be applicable to other properties in Territorio Mudéjar. The Archbishopric of Zaragoza, to whose diocese more than half of the parishes in the villages of the Mudejar Territory belong, has been an honorary member of the association since its foundation on 13 September 2018.

“The Archbishopric of Zaragoza has a close relationship with Territorio Mudéjar, having been an honorary member since 2018. But we are also united by our work to promote heritage, especially with La Parroquieta. This stay strengthens those ties in an innovative way and will allow us to transfer the results to other monuments in the partner towns of Territorio Mudéjar,” said Daniel Granada, chapter secretary of La Seo, Cathedral of El Salvador.

3. Study of alabaster gypsum and its impact on the territory in collaboration with the Comprehensive Alabaster Development Centre (CIDA). Plaster, as a fundamental material for understanding Mudejar architecture, has been the focus of previous Territorio Mudéjar exhibitions, and now, further study is being sought through a collaboration with CIDA, based in Albalate del Arzobispo. This alliance is essential due to the location of historical and current alabaster deposits in towns within the Territorio Mudéjar area and the links with companies that extract and process the product, located in or very close to the partner towns. Among other things, this grant aims to promote a study of the possibilities of this plaster and the actual implementation of traditional kilns.

Furthermore, as Santiago Martínez, coordinator of CIDA (Comprehensive Centre for Alabaster Development), points out, this initiative “opens up new avenues of research into one of the main by-products of alabaster, alabaster gypsum, and will enable the implementation of previously unexplored research programmes on alabaster gypsum at the Comprehensive Centre for Alabaster Development”.

On the other hand, Territorio Mudéjar continues to strive to become a creative laboratory and is organising an artistic residency linked to the territory and cultural landscape. Specifically, it will address the wine landscape, taking advantage of Cariñena’s selection as European City of Wine in 2025 and the fact that the villages of Territorio Mudéjar belong to three designations of origin. The residency is endowed with €4,500 and proposals may be submitted until 31 October 2025.

In this regard, the mayor of Cariñena, Sergio Ortiz, emphasises that “the interaction between man and nature throughout history to create a wine industry has shaped a unique landscape that deserves to be cared for and promoted. This residence is a great opportunity for leading artists to get to know and work in our region and join forces with our bid to become a European city of wine, but above all, to promote our rich heritage”.

Applications must be sent to the Asociación Territorio Mudéjar in digital format to the email address convocatoria@territoriomudejar.es. The terms and conditions of the call for applications and further information can be found at https://www.territoriomudejar.es/estancias-de-investigacion/.

Activities and events promoting the call for applications

Schedule to be confirmed: Visits to heritage sites in the villages of the Mudéjar Territory for assessment as case studies.

17 September [10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.]: Tarazona. Convent of San Joaquín Project meeting REliHE. Religious Heritage in Rural Areas . Participation alongside entities related to the project. Organised and coordinated by the Provincial Council of Zaragoza and the Tarazona Monumental Foundation.

19 September [5pm – 7pm]: Cariñena. Casa de Cultura. Closing of the exhibition Proyectos Territorio Mudéjar (Mudejar Territory Projects) and introductory watercolour workshop based on observing the landscape with artist and researcher Pilar García Verón.

25 September. [12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.]. La Almunia de Doña Godina. San Juan Palace. Opening and presentation of the exhibition “Territorio Mudéjar La Guía” (Mudejar Territory La Guía). This project is the result of the 2021 residency programme coordinated by Myriam Monterde and illustrated by artist David Guirao.

30 September [10:00–11:00]. Albalate del Arzobispo Castle. Alabaster Development Centre. Presentation: Key points for applying for the call for proposals. Webinar broadcast live from a heritage site. Open to the public in person

14 October [10:00–11:00]. Location to be determined. Presentation: Key points for applying for the call for proposals. Webinar broadcast live from a heritage site. Open to the public in person

21 October [10:00–11:00]. Location to be determined. Presentation: Key points for applying for the call for proposals. Webinar broadcast live from a heritage site. Open to the public in person.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Research stays and projects 2025

6th Call for Applications for Research Stays for Projects and Artist Residencies “Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis”

Submission deadline: Until October 31, 2025

Territorio Mudéjar announces the SIXTH EDITION of Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis research stays and projects aimed at directly supporting the work of researchers and project promoters who want to work on the development of villages through the responsible and sustainable use of cultural and natural heritage resources.

The projects carried out since 2019 have strengthened this initiative as one of our initiative as one of our most important lines of of our most important lines of work based on the development of actions that enhance the retention and attraction of talent, actions aimed at the construction of highly qualified professional networks networks linked to the use of historical, artistic and cultural resources , contributing to medium- and long-term territorial development.artistic and cultural resources , contributing to medium and long-term territorial development.

Territorio Mudéjar is an association of local councils, currently comprising 49 member councils and one collaborating partner, whose objective is to consolidate a unified and collaborative management network for the use of historical and artistic resources linked to the important Mudéjar heritage, understanding them as a driving force for the development of towns and as an element of identity for the maintenance of the communities that make up our territory.

Our action program follows strategic lines aligned with the objectives of the 2030 Agenda, whose guiding principle is that “the cultural identity of territories will contribute to sustainable social and economic development by differentiating markets and, in turn, enabling their integration into a diversified economy that can ensure their future success.”

This project is dedicated to Professor Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis, a staunch defender of the management of Aragonese heritage, villages, and territory, as an action of the people and as an innovative field of work with a promising future.

His work exemplified with perfect coherence the possibility of combining research work of high scientific impact with a commitment to the land and its people. of high scientific impact with a commitment to the land and its people, not only favouring the knowledge, conservation and dissemination of its historical-artistic heritage, but also by modernising work processes and by proposing innovative innovation projects in which natural, cultural and heritage resources are a key element in the future of the towns.

Vista panorámica del casco urbano de Tarazona con la catedral, la torre de la Magdalena y la plaza de toros octogonal.

Transdisciplinary thinking, networking, and partnerships as tools for innovation

RESEARCH STAYS FOR PROJECTS. THE OPPORTUNITY TO FORM ALLIANCES WITH STRATEGIC ENTITIES AND PROFESSIONALS TO DEVELOP PROJECTS WITH GREATER IMPACT.

The activity, which began in 2019, has established itself as our organization’s most important strategic project, consolidating the R&D&I strategy with 29 pilot projects involving more than 40 management professionals.

The project was considered an exemplary case study by the Ministry of Culture and Sport at the World Heritage Managers Meeting held in Mérida in 2022.

It has also been considered an example of innovation and good practice in various European cooperation projects. In this regard, we should highlight our organization’s position, through the Estancias project, in the Interreg Europe program: between 2019 and 2023, as part of the MOMAr Models of Management for Singular Rural Heritage project, our project was chosen by the provincial government of Groningen and the Libau Foundation as a reference model for their Heritage Lab project, the centerpiece of their action plan. in 2024, our organization took part in the launch event for the REliHE Religious Heritage in Rural Areas project at the Polytechnic University of Turin, invited to present the project as a case study of good practices.

The long-term goal is to build an innovative structure that supports an international network designed to meet the needs of managing heritage resources located in villages.

Thus, in 2025, the association has partnerships with administrations and entities with which it shares objectives and methodology for growth: the Alliance of Cultural Landscapes and Related Sites, with management entities from fourteen UNESCO heritage sites; the Network of Medinas, within the framework of a collaboration on international projects and routes; the architecture and design department of the Polytechnic University of Turín and various other universities.

THE ARTISTIC RESIDENCY. THE PLACE WHERE IDEAS ARE BORN

Since the 2022 call for proposals, the Estancias project has incorporated a work area called the Creative Laboratory, a space within the research for projects that allowed for the exploration of Territorio Mudéjar as a place of action and creativity, dissolving the boundaries between areas of knowledge, which were orderly and differentiated, and often led us to places that were complex to manage.

This workspace allowed us to work on the concept of “artistic residency” with the aim of understanding the heritage space and the context in which it is located as a multifaceted space, promoting artistic creation projects with a strong connection to the territory, the landscape, and/or the heritage space.

Following the success of the first call for artistic residencies, this area continues to focus on research, experimentation, exchange, learning, critical reflection, and the dissemination of local practices and knowledge through dialogue between artistic research, communities, the territory, places, and non-places.

The aim is to encourage the opening up of new processes and directions of knowledge in order to explore new paths; to foster creative thinking by generating spaces for dialogue and starting points between art, science, and technology from an artistic perspective, with a view to the development and maintenance of communities and their inhabitants.

To improve the monitoring and support process for the selected residency, this second call for applications focuses on working with the concept of Cultural Landscape, in support of the designation of Cariñena as European Wine City 2025.

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Image: Courtesy of the artist-researcher ©ChemaAgustín Riglorámico Project

DIGITALISATION = STRATEGIC TOOL

The management of historical, artistic and cultural heritage is evolving rapidly thanks to digital technologies. The challenge now is to apply a strategic vision to these processes and the unprecedented opportunities offered by new technologies, and to use them in the most and the unprecedented opportunities offered by new technologies and to use them in the most efficient way possible, ensuring that the efforts efficient way possible , ensuring that the efforts made at this time of “boom ” have a long “boom” are sustainable over time and allow for the development of future projects.

Therefore, one of the criteria being continued this year is that all deliverables in a digital version (photographs, photographs, videos, etc.) must year is that all deliverable products in digital version (photographs, videos, digital models, audio files, etc.) must be videos, digital models, audio files, etc.) comply with the study Study on quality in 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage: mapping parameters, formats, standards, benchmarks, methodologies, and guidelines published in 2022 and follow the lines of work indicated in the recommendation of 10/11/2021 on a common European data space for cultural heritage , thus adapting the quality criteria in this way quality criteria established in the in the Digitalisation Strategy of Territorio Mudéjar.

This strategy is in line with the latest recommendations of the European Commission and also takes into account, the standards of the most commonly used platforms and repositories such as Europeana and such as Europeana or Google Arts.

The aim of Territorio Mudéjar is for all projects to have a digital focus that allows for the implementation of adapted transfer channels. To this end, all beneficiaries of the aid will receive information and training on the Territorio Mudéjar Digitalization Strategy during the first phase of their project and will be monitored continuously throughout its development to help them comply with it.

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Terms and conditions of calls for applications

Research for projects: modality 1

THE USES OF HERITAGE IN THE VILLAGES OF THE MUDÉJAR TERRITORY

AMOUNT: €7,500

DURATION OF THE SCHOLARSHIP: Between 4 and 7 months.

CONTEXT: Interreg Europe Project. REliHE Religious heritage in rural areas.

COMMENTS: The proposal must include a minimum justified stay in two member towns of Territorio Mudéjar. It will be evaluated based on the project submitted.

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Research and projects: modality 2

MODELS FOR MANAGING THE MONUMENT AND ITS PROTECTED ENVIRONMENT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF AUTHENTICITY AND PREVENTIVE CONSERVATION

AMOUNT: €7,500

DURATION OF THE SCHOLARSHIP: Between 4 and 7 months.

CONTEXT: Collaboration with the parish of La Seo in Zaragoza. The Archbishopric of Zaragoza has been an honorary member of Territorio Mudéjar since 2018.

COMMENTS: The proposal must include a justified minimum stay in at least two member towns of Territorio Mudéjar and work with a minimum of three monuments. It will be evaluated based on the project submitted.

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Research and projects: modality 3

STUDY OF ALABASTER PLASTER AND ITS IMPACT ON THE TERRITORY: INNOVATION AND QUALITY FROM ITS HISTORICAL STUDY

AMOUNT: €7,500

DURATION OF THE SCHOLARSHIP: Between 4 and 7 months.

CONTEXT: Collaboration with CIDA, the Alabaster Development Center.

COMMENTS: The proposal must include a justified minimum stay in at least four member locations of Territorio Mudéjar and CIDA. In addition, work must be carried out on at least two monuments and two landscapes. It will be evaluated based on the project submitted.

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Artistic residencies

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE: ARTISTIC STUDY OF THE WINE LANDSCAPE

AMOUNT: €4,500

DURATION OF THE SCHOLARSHIP: Between 4 and 7 months.

CONTEXT: Cariñena European City of Wine 2025.

COMMENTS: The proposal must include a justified minimum stay in Cariñena and in at least two member towns of Territorio Mudéjar. It will be evaluated based on the project submitted.

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Activities and promotional events related to the call for applications

If you are interested, please contact us at: info@territoriomudejar.es

Schedule to be determined

Visits to heritage sites in the towns of the Mudéjar Territory for evaluation as case studies.

September 25. [12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.]

La Almunia de Doña Godina. San Juan Palace.

Opening and presentation of the exhibition “Territorio Mudéjar La Guía” Project resulting from the 2020 call for residencies.

September 30 [10:00 am - 11:00 a.m]

Albalate del Arzobispo Castle. Integral Center for Alabaster Development.

Webinar: Key points for applying for the call for proposals.

Open to the public in person

October 14 [10:00 a.m -11:00 a.m]

Location to be determined.

Webinar: Key points for applying for the call for proposals.

Open to the public in person

October 21 [10.00h-11.00h]

Location to be determined.

Webinar: Key points for applying for the call for proposals.

Open to the public in person

The exhibition “Light in Mudejar Art. The Wall as Skin” will be open to visitors in Cariñena until 19 September.

Territorio Mudéjar continues to support its partner towns in organising the most cultural and heritage-related aspects of their festivals. To kick off the year, the town council of Cariñena has included the temporary exhibition ‘Projects and Researchers: Pilar García Verón’ in its programme of festivities for Santo Cristo 2025. The exhibition analyses the research carried out since 2023 and showcases the most artistic results.

“The wall as skin: Light in Mudejar architecture” is an artistic research project that uses workbooks, materials, watercolours, collages and many other techniques to visually explain how light is used in Mudejar buildings to create space and sensations.

The exhibition features two display tables with artistic objects, canvases, materials and posters detailing various projects by the researcher. The display tables offer a preview of part of the new catalogue of project exhibitions that the Territorio Mudéjar network will be taking to its various partner locations over the coming months.

The exhibition has been set up in the exhibition hall of the Casa de Cultura in Cariñena and can be visited from Friday 12 September to Friday 19 September, every day from 7pm to 8.30pm.

The exhibition will close on Friday, 19 September, with a workshop on rapid watercolour painting, landscape and earth, given by artist and researcher Pilar García Verón.

We invite you to try watercolour painting. Attendance is free of charge, includes materials and is subject to space availability. It is designed for anyone who wants to experiment with their gaze, paint, brushes and materials. Just come along on Friday 19 September at 5pm and we will show you how we study Mudejar heritage through artistic observation.

Special end-of-summer guided tour of the old village of Rodén

Territorio Mudéjar offers a guided tour of Rodén with part of its team, taking advantage of a final practical visit. This tour is part of the collaboration agreement between the Fuentes de Ebro Town Council and the Territorio Mudéjar Association. Throughout the tour, visitors can discover first-hand the most relevant episodes in the history of Rodén. They can also discover the significance of its most unique corners. The tour takes in the main monuments and the urban layout of the town, with special attention paid to the building materials used, the organisation of the streets and some of the most representative elements that are still preserved.

It should be noted that this visit is inspired by the “Circular en la escuela rural” (Circular in the rural school) project, which takes visitors on a tour of the old town of Rodén with strategic stops and an educational focus. This allows visitors to learn about the Mudejar identity of this town through observation and study of traditional and heritage elements.

The exhibition “Mudéjar, the guide” continues to tour our region: Villarreal de Huerva, Terrer and Villafeliche.

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Summer is a time for visiting villages and a great opportunity to learn about their heritage and the work we do at Territorio Mudéjar. That is why the exhibition “Mudéjar, the guide” has continued touring our region over the past few weeks, stopping off at Villarreal de Huerva, Terrer and Villafeliche.

In Villarreal de Huerva, our internship team also visited the church of San Miguel Arcángel, located within an old fortified enclosure and which preserves a 15th-century Mudejar tower, the remains of an earlier construction. They also saw the remains of the castle that surrounds it and the chapel of the Virgen del Rosario. In Terrer, our interns welcomed visitors and answered their questions over the weekend. And in Villafeliche, they gave a presentation to the public in the parish church, where the exhibition was installed.

Students at the Gallicum High School in Zuera are launching a pilot learning experience with our teaching materials.

Education is a passport to the future, and it’s crucial for us that students in our partner communities understand the heritage they grew up with and learn to love, value, and protect it so they never lose the identity of their territory.

Along these lines, today we implemented a pilot test of teaching materials with second-year ESO students and teachers at the IES Gallicum in Zuera.

Thanks to the educational materials developed in the various educational projects of Territorio Mudéjar (Circular from the Rural School, Didactic Mudéjar, the guide, Mudéjar Pedagogy), we have toured the town explaining different elements that play a fundamental role in understanding Mudéjar culture: historical context, construction materials, and the importance of water and landscape.

This Thursday we will repeat the activity with another second-year ESO group.

Our objective:
– To evaluate our materials and methodology, which have been developed through various projects and research stays.

– Awaken curiosity about the origin of places to reinforce identity from an early age, fostering roots and feeling emotional about one’s own place.

Bi-annual technical meeting of the Alliance of Cultural Landscapes and Related Sites in Talayónica Menorca

Territorio Mudéjar participated in the technical workshops of the Alliance of Cultural Landscapes and Related Sites, held in Menorca Talayónica, from March 10 to 12.

Maru Gallego, from the TM team, has traveled to the World Heritage site since 2023 to participate in the meeting on Communicating World Heritage Properties: Interpretive and Outreach Resources to Connect with Society. This event brings together experts in heritage, communication, and outreach to discuss the best strategies for conveying the value of sites inscribed on the World Heritage List.

This event, which combines theoretical sessions with field experiences, aims to share experiences of initiatives aimed at strengthening the connection between heritage and society through the use of tools and methodologies that facilitate its interpretation and understanding by the public.

This biannual technical meeting of the Landscape Alliance included an intense day of conferences and visits to representative sites in Menorca, such as the Naveta des Tudons, the Ciutadella-Can Saura Museum, and the Numa Foundation.

We heard Pablo Jiménez Díaz, from the Ministry of Culture, discuss the different approaches to communicating World Heritage; Celia Martínez Yáñez of ICOMOS International speak about heritage law and regulation; we learned about a benchmark heritage education program from the San Millán de la Cogolla Foundation; and we learned about practical cases of heritage dissemination, such as the experience of the Madinat al Zahra Archaeological Complex, the educational project in the Sierra de Tramuntana, and the initiatives of Talayotic Menorca aimed at the local community.

Technical visit to the German Upper Palatinate with the European project on religious heritage in rural areas RELIHE

The director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, traveled to the German region of Upper Palatinate, in the state of Bavaria, to participate in a technical meeting of REliHE Interreg, the European project for religious heritage in rural areas that aims to improve regional policy instruments and promote innovative approaches to the sustainable reuse of religious heritage. All of this contributes to local development.

Territorio Mudéjar is a stakeholder in this project, led by the Polytechnic of Turin, which has the Provincial Council of Zaragoza as a partner in Spain. In addition to the province of Zaragoza, the following countries are participating: Overijssel (Netherlands), Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship (Poland), Upper Palatinate (Germany), South Bohemia (Czech Republic) and Zemgale (Latvia).

The first day began at the former Frauenzell monastery with a welcome from local representatives and REliHe project leaders. After a tour of the monument, a session was held to discuss the monastery’s past uses and potential future uses. Territorio Mudéjar is also working along these lines, understanding the heritage of its partner communities as a space open to future research and learning, as a space that is not just a container, but part of the content.

The day continued with visits to the parish churches of Maxhütte-Haidhof, to further explore the uses of heritage space.

On the second day of the technical tour, Abbess Laetitia Fech opened the doors of Waldassen Monastery to the participants, a fantastic reuse management project that has enabled its preservation. The visit continued with a tour of the Protestant church in Trabitz and the monastery of St. Josef in Neumarkt.

Before flying back, the participating team traveled from Neumarkt to the Planktessen Monastery. There, they were welcomed by Benedictine Abbot Beda, who is responsible for the monastery’s strategic management. He was accompanied by the town’s mayor, Ludwig Eisenreich, who expressed his gratitude for the specialized visit and the opportunity to develop joint projects.

With this technical visit, Territorio Mudéjar returns with a notebook full of ideas on European models for managing the use of religious heritage and how to apply them in the region to achieve a greater and more effective impact.

We concluded our specialized Mudejar courses with a master class by Professor Sarasa.

We have completed our specialized Mudejar courses, and we have done so with two activities that have reinforced our interest in and understanding of the Mudejar heritage of our region:

On March 4, Victoria Trasobares introduced Professor Esteban Sarasa at the “Emeritus Tuesdays” event. Sarasa holds a PhD in Philosophy and Letters (History), is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Zaragoza, and a member of the Scientific Committee of Territorio Mudéjar. In the Tuesday session, he gave a master class on Mudejars and Moriscos, reviewing the most important theses of his research work over the past 50 years and honoring Professor Borras Gualis as an expert on Mudejar art. Following the lecture, an interesting debate took place based on questions raised by the more than 150 attendees.

On the other hand, 3rd and 4th grade students from the University of Experience in Zaragoza held the final sessions of their course at the Church of San Pablo, using heritage as a learning environment.

The Fuentes de Ebro City Council and the Mudéjar Territory renew their special collaboration agreement for 2025.

Reunión de trabajo entre el equipo de Territorio Mudéjar y representantes del Ayuntamiento de Fuentes de Ebro para renovar el convenio de colaboración 2025.

The Fuentes de Ebro City Council and Territorio Mudéjar have renewed their special collaboration agreement in 2025, through which they will develop tourism and heritage action strategies.

This agreement will last 10 months and will be developed with a team of art historians and cultural heritage managers.

The new agreement began with research and bibliographical compilation from the municipal library and municipal and parish archives on the heritage of Fuentes de Ebro and Rodén. Technical visits were conducted and the project participated in activities such as the presentation of the results of the employment and training workshop. Working with local stakeholders was key, and the project participated in the preparation of deeply rooted local traditions, such as the bonfire of San Antón, for example.

The first few weeks of the recently renewed agreement have served to document and lay the foundation for the content needed to prepare interpretation materials and guides to shops and heritage attractions in Fuentes de Ebro, as well as to design and implement a tourist visit management calendar, with the aim of promoting local tourism.

The first of these activities is scheduled for March 23 at 11:00 a.m. in Rodén, where a guided tour will follow the interpretation milestones the team is working on: history, heritage, materials, and landscape will allow us to learn about this interesting historical-artistic complex, declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 2017.

On the other hand, these days we are also holding technical meetings between the two entities to improve management tools.