New summer courses to learn about the Mudejar or subjects related to our territory.

    If you would like to make the most of the summer to learn more about Mudejar art or deepen your knowledge of subjects related to our Territorio Mudéjar and its history and heritage, we invite you to participate in some of the extraordinary courses of the University of Zaragoza programmed or related to our towns.

    Journey to the Mudejar art of the regions of Calatayud, Aranda, Daroca and Valdejalón. 20th anniversary of the declaration of the Mudejar as World Heritage. Homage to Professor Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis (Calatayud, 12-14 July).

    It is coordinated by José Luis Cortés, tutor professor at the UNED Calatayud, with the collaboration of Victoria Trasobares Ruiz, director of Territorio Mudéjar.

    The aim is to study first hand the Mudejar art of the regions of Aranda, Calatayud, Daroca and Valdejalón by means of detailed visits to all the most outstanding monuments, which are characterised by having preserved the original Mudejar spaces to the present day. The aim is to delve into the geographical, historical, ethnographic and artistic framework that allowed Aragonese Mudejar art to be declared a World Heritage Site in 2001.

    The Social Function of Cultural Heritage: Uses, Projects, Models and Potentialities (Jaca, 21-23 July)

    The course addresses the different challenges that cultural heritage management faces today, with the new referential framework set by the Sustainable Development Goals and concepts such as “cultural rights”. For this purpose, a series of lectures and round tables have been programmed to address the problems, but above all the potentialities around very diverse issues that Cultural Heritage and its management as a tool for social change have in common: inclusion, universal accessibility, sustainability, local development, depopulation…

    Victoria Trasobares Ruiz, director of Territorio Mudéjar, participates as a speaker.

    II Course-workshop on physical anthropology and palaeopathology in skeletal and mummified remains of the Museo de las Momias de Quinto (Quinto, 5-9 July)

    The theory will have a practical application in the laboratory, with workshop sessions that will include work on the classification and analysis of skeletal and mummified remains exhumed from El Piquete de Quinto.

    The aim of the course in Quinto is to approach the Museo de Momias, the first of its kind in Spain, through guided tours of the facilities and an exhibition of the preventive conservation methodology carried out by the Instituto de Estudios Científicos en Momias (IECIM).

    Bartolomé Bermejo and Gothic painting in the regions of Campo de Daroca and Calatayud. The Heritage of empty Spain. (Darocz, 28-30 July).

    It is coordinated by José Luis Cortés, tutor lecturer at the UNED in Calatayud and Fabián Mañas, PhD in Art History. The aim is to study and disseminate the artistic heritage of the towns that make up the Campo de Daroca region and the Community of Calatayud . Among them all, Bartolomé Bermejo stands out, whose entry into the artistic panorama of Daroca meant an aesthetic and technical revolution in the seventies of the 15th century.

    https://cursosextraordinarios.unizar.es/…/bartolome…

    International Museum Day: the challenge of reclaiming and reimagining spaces

      With the slogan “The future of museums: recovering and reimagining”, today Territorio Mudéjar joins the celebration of International Museum Day 2021.

      The aim this year is to invite museums, their professionals and communities to create, imagine and share new practices of (co)creation of value, new business models for cultural institutions and innovative solutions to the social, economic and environmental challenges of today.

      This commemoration was created in 1977 by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) to raise public awareness of what these centres contribute to the development of society.

      We share with you the videos about some of the museums of our Territorio Mudéjar:

      –Lugares patrimoniales como espacios de conocimiento.
      -La Almunia de Doña Godina. 
      -Borja.
      -Tobed.
      -Calatayud.
      -Quinto.
      -Daroca.

      And we invite you to discover them all here.

      We remind you that the Archaeological Museum of Fréscano and the Museum of the Celsa Colony of Velilla de Ebro have also been added to the list.

      Happy Museum Day!

      Third MOMAr meeting: exchange of international good practices

        The pedagogical nature and the use of new technologies in the field of heritage management were the focus of the third interregional meeting of the European project MOMAr (IEEE3 From theory to practice.Experimental Models of Management Tested) in which we have participated this week as an attending “stakeholder”.

        This event has allowed us to learn and be inspired by the initiatives that are being carried out in the field of Management of Singular Rural Heritage in all the countries participating in the project. This meeting has also allowed the use of cultural and natural spaces for the direct benefit and enjoyment of the population.

        Thus, the Daroca Town Hall announced the International Early Music Festival, which, with almost half a century of history, has become a world reference. Both training courses and concerts are attended every year by hundreds of professionals and lovers of early music from all over the world. It is a meeting that brings together the immense local architectural and historical heritage with international art and culture. The festival’s director, Javier Artigas, took the opportunity to confirm that this year’s edition will take place from 3 to 10 August. The broadcast of this experience was made from the church of San Miguel.

        Territorio Mudéjar Routes: Mestizo Land and borderland

          Territorio Mudéjar continues with its routes.In January we offered a first panoramic approach in the magazine La magia de viajar por Aragón (The magic of travelling in Aragon); in this new issue, the “Mestizo Land and borderland” route takes us to visit the places where the Christian, Jewish and Muslim cultures developed in an extraordinary and lasting way.

          We will be able to understand how this period of cultural fusion is still clearly reflected today in urbanism, the country houses and monuments of these villages that played an important role in the Aragonese territory during the 12th and 13th centuries.

          We will discover it in the Jewish, Moorish and Christian quarters of large urban centres such as Calatayud, Daroca and Borja, as well as in more rural towns such as Villafeliche, Mesones de Isuela, Torrellas, Magallón and Tauste.

          We invite you to take a leisurely stroll and a fresh look to recognise the vestiges of this rich coexistence of cultures, to understand their evolution, ways of life, trades and traditions, and to understand their historical importance and their reflection in the present day.

          Find out more about the route.

          Second MOMAr meeting: Territorio Mudéjar as a hub for rural innovation

          Territorio Mudéjar has participated this Thursday in the second meeting of the European project MOMAr, a pioneering meeting with entities of the province linked to cultural heritage.

          The event, with the aim of being a meeting point and a space to create new synergies within the sector, was held in an on-line format open to the public, with the participation of more than 50 professionals linked to heritage management and a streaming audience of more than 200 interested people.

          In the session, we explained how we work to be a hub of rural innovation and follow strategies of:

          • Research: with stays and professional internships in rural areas.
          • Communication, dissemination and knowledge: with the inhabitants as protagonists, working to attract national and international entities to the territory, taking advantage of the World Heritage brand; and working carefully with the media.
          • Investment and future projects: Working with specialised teams in calls for funding and building virtual workspaces to strengthen collaboration strategies.

          In addition, we have explained our role based on:

          • Use the heritage space from a disruptive point of view and directly linked to the local development of the communities.
          • The strengthening of historical-artistic heritage management thinking as a strategy, which affects multiple actions, and cultural management as a tool.
          • Attraction of professionals to the rural environment on a permanent basis, facilitating its implementation.
          • The evidence that the only way to have more significant results is through the strengthening of networking and the acquisition of roles within the network.
          • The need to exchange good practices without losing sight of the fact that it is not enough to replicate but to think about how it works in your territory and the assets on which your management is based.

          And we talked about our commitment to professionalization understood as quality, projects and results.

          Territorio Mudéjar Routes: The beauty of a genuine art form

            In 2021, Mudejar architecture celebrates a double anniversary in its declaration as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO: 35 years since the recognition of Mudejar architecture of Teruel in 1986, and 20 years since the extension of the international brand to the entire Aragonese territory, with the incorporation of six buildings from the province of Zaragoza in 2001. This extension was key in order to understand the true dimension and significance of Mudejar art in Aragon.

            With this in mind, we have started a series of printed trips, with the help of Prames and the magazine La Magia de Viajar por Aragón (The Magic of travelling in Aragón), in which every two months we will travel around the Mudejar heritage in the province of Zaragoza.

            The trips will lead us to the month of December, when we will commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the declaration as World Heritage of some of its most outstanding examples.

            The first of the articles, available in the January issue of the magazine La Magia de Viajar (The Magic of Travelling), allows us to explain the beauty of a genuine art form. That is to say, why Mudejar art, exclusive to the Iberian Peninsula and an enclave between Islamic and Christian art derived from the conditions of coexistence in medieval Spain, is the most genuine artistic manifestation of Spain and has its greatest exponent in Aragon, a land of frontiers and a melting pot of cultures.

            Read the article.

            Study-trip to Cortona (Italy): Territorio Mudéjar participates once again in the COrtonaOPen3d workshop.

            This week saw the end of the eleventh edition of the workshop organised by the Politecnico di Milano, the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, the Urbino Academy of Fine Arts and the Aragon School of Design COrtonaOPen3d, in which Territorio Mudéjar participated for the third consecutive year.

            In this edition, the director of the entity, Victoria Trasobares, travelled to the Tuscan town to share with the participants in the workshop her strategic vision of the possibilities for development offered by Heritage in the rural environment and to explain to the students, students of architecture, design and Fine Arts, the management processes that enable the implementation of innovative projects, such as those developed in the Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis Research Stays and Projects.

            The students of the workshop have developed a total of 23 proposals centred on the possibilities offered by the Girifalco Fortress, located in the upper part of the city, as a pole of innovation and cultural development with a theme that this year revolved around the theme of music. Reflections ranging from its connection with existing structures in the town centre such as the Signorelli Theatre, the development of installations along the routes leading to the fortress or the refunctionalisation of some spaces have materialised the ideas on the future of heritage as a driving force for local development shared during these days.

            On the other hand, various meetings have been held with the cultural institutions responsible for the Cortona On The Move International Photography Festival, the managers of different heritage sites such as the Girifalco Fortress itself and the heads of Culture and Tourism of the local council in order to set up joint projects that, with a strategic vision of the management of the heritage of these territories, will allow new actions to be developed over the coming year.

            COrtonaOPen3d is a SmartCityDesign workshop in a Cultural Heritage context held in the town of Cortona (Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy) from 29 July to 7 August. During the workshop, participants develop individually or in groups an architectural design project or an artistic installation inserted in the context of the city of Cortona.

            The workshop lasts approximately 100 hours divided between frontal lessons, lectures and project workshops and is conducted in Italian, English and Spanish. Each year around 50 to 100 international students participate.

            The students of the Desafío Programme, Unita and the collaborators of Territorio Mudéjar attended the presentation from the organisation’s headquarters in Tobed.

            Students of the Desafío and Unita programmes begin their training in heritage management

            Territorio Mudéjar is once again taking part in the Desafío Programme, popularly known as “rural Erasmus”, and this summer we will once again be hosting students on work experience in our villages.

            The students will live in Tobed, Velilla de Ebro and Castejón de Valdejasa thanks to this programme promoted by the DPZ Chair on Depopulation and Creativity, financed by the Diputación de Zaragoza and managed through Universa, the Orientation and Employment Service of the University of Zaragoza.

            The initiative is in line with Territorio Mudéjar’s objective of promoting curricular or training internships and professionalising profiles linked to heritage in order to boost employment in rural areas, attract professionals and develop projects that lead to investment in our villages.

            In the same way, this summer we will also train students thanks to the European university project UNITA-universitas montium. This initiative is being developed together with the universities of Turin (Italy), which acts as coordinator, Pau and Savoy Montblanc in France, West Timisoara in Romania and Beira Interior in Portugal.

            All of them, during their scholarship, will be trained in the methodology of cultural heritage management projects with professionals from different disciplines. In addition, they were immersed in the different models of accessibility to the monuments in the towns of Territorio Mudéjar, among other issues.

            Territorio Mudéjar explores new collaborations in the event Atardecer con Zaragoza Nsencia in Ejea

            It has been a pleasure to participate in ‘Atardecer con Zaragoza Nsencia’, an event held on the 28th of July at La Botillería in Ejea de los Caballeros. ?

            There we explored new broadcasting collaborations and enjoyed the performance of the violagambist, vocalist and composer Pilar Almalé, and the Rondalla Cinco Villas, the best BSO for an afternoon of networking.

            The event was attended by Javier Lambán, President of Aragón; Ros Cihuelo, Deputy for Culture of the DPZ; Elena Guinda, Director of INAEM, councillors from Ejea Town Council, businessmen and journalists, among others.

            Cycle of talks at the Monastery of the Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre in Saragossa

            This week, the church of the Monastery of the Canonesas Regulares del Santo Sepulcro is holding a series of conferences open to the public, with the aim of showing the important historical and cultural heritage of this building.

            The director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, participated on Wednesday with a talk on “Mudéjar architecture in Aragon”.

            There he spoke of Mudejar architecture as a living heritage with open lines of research in which transdisciplinary viewpoints and teams are necessary in which the monument is understood in an urban context, in a cultural landscape and in relation to the inhabitants who live in the context of the heritage.

            About 75 people attended this event in which Victoria Trasobares addressed the knowledge of the heritage monument from a management approach to generate impact and innovation projects.

            The presentation was attended by the canonesses represented by Sister Ana, the general director of culture of Zaragoza City Council, Elena de Marta Uriol, and José Juan Fras, the City Council’s Culture technician.

            This series of talks is part of the agreement that Zaragoza City Council and the Canonesas Regulares del Santo Sepulcro signed last year to promote the recovery of the Monastery.