First meeting in Aranjuez of representatives of administrations and entities that are part of the Landscape Alliance

Representantes de administraciones y entidades posan frente a la Fuente de Mariblanca y el Palacio Real de Aranjuez durante el primer encuentro de la Alianza de Paisaje.

This Thursday, Territorio Mudéjar attended the first meeting of representatives from the administrations and entities associated under the acronym of the Alliance of Cultural Landscapes and Related Sites in Aranjuez.

The meeting was attended by Juan Antonio Sánchez Quero, president of the Territorio Mudéjar association and mayor of Tobed; and Victoria Trasobares, managing director.

The goal has been to work on the first steps of a renewed work program for 2026 to position the network internationally by activating collaborations between partners, raising the profile of the partner network, and activating institutional support that will enable the construction of a strong, forward-looking project.

Territorio Mudéjar has been a partner of the landscape network since October 2023 as a related site through the Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon UNESCO World Heritage Site as a serial asset, i.e., a declaration that groups 10 buildings in five locations and in which the understanding of the building’s environment, the urban landscape, and the landscape are essential for quality management of the assets.

The Alliance of Cultural Landscapes and Related Sites is an initiative that aims to connect different cultural landscapes and related sites, illustrating the evolution of society and human settlements over the years, influenced by the limitations and/or advantages presented by the natural environment, and by internal and external social, economic and cultural forces, to create a joint work of man and nature of outstanding universal value.

Territorio Mudéjar rolls out the red carpet at FITUR for potential visitors from its network of partner towns.

Material informativo de Territorio Mudéjar expuesto en el stand de Aragón durante FITUR, con atención al público.

Territorio Mudéjar has been at FITUR, rolling out the red carpet for potential visitors to discover our partner towns.

During the fair, we once again organized a small meeting schedule. We also have a presence at the counter that the Tourism Department of the Zaragoza Provincial Council is currently managing at the Aragon Government stand through the Zaragoza Provincial Council counter.

Guided tour in Muel to the exhibition “Strategies and Projects of the Mudejar Territory”

Vista de la exposición "Estrategias y proyectos de Territorio Mudéjar" en Muel, con visitantes conversando junto a paneles y publicaciones.

This morning, the Muel Ceramics School Workshop hosted a presentation on how Territorio Mudéjar works on heritage resource management through research. We explored how we approach Mudéjar heritage with a transdisciplinary methodology and create new perspectives.

Today, in Muel, we enjoyed a guided tour of the exhibition “Strategies and Projects: Mudejar Territory as a Research Space Open to the Future of Impact Management,” which is open until the 30th.

In addition, two researchers from our network of internships will be in charge of giving two practical talks:

The artist and visual artist Pilar García Verón will discuss her project, “The Wall as Dermis,” which, based on the symbolic and metaphysical concepts of light, shadow, unity, and the ephemeral, highlights the highest function of Mudejar art: to reveal the presence of the divine.

Javier Seral, industrial designer, industrial organization engineer, and senior artistic ceramics technician, will talk about his project “Barro Mudéjar.” This project explores the potential of clay from its natural state to its manufacturing process and the creation of pieces for use or application in architecture.

The exhibition can be seen until January 30, Monday to Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

CULTOURFAIR Madrid 2025: 37 meetings with premium tourism and corporate travel agencies to showcase our towns.

Equipo participante en la 25ª edición de MITM Europe 2025 durante CULTOURFAIR Madrid, frente al photocall oficial del evento.

This year we returned to CULTOURFAIR Madrid 2025, an international B2B fair specializing in premium cultural tourism and MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions).

We held 37 meetings with 15 agencies from different countries dedicated to corporate travel, company meetings, and executive events. They are looking for unique locations and venues with carefully curated logistics, elegant and stylish. The luxury of authenticity, of identity, of locals who love their land.

We have offered them various management activities related to Mudejar heritage: Routes for companies that organize private trips, incentive trips, and business trips (small agencies and product clubs), and projects for organizations involved in the search for heritage spaces for communication (Mediapro events, Sony, BBVA, etc.).

We are also testing the design of our new routes, offering several prospecting trips covering all areas and all locations in the Mudéjar Territory.

23rd anniversary of the declaration of the churches of Tobed, Cervera de la Cañada, and the collegiate church of Calatayud as World Heritage Sites

Guía señalando elementos arquitectónicos en la portada de una iglesia mudéjar durante la celebración del XXIII aniversario del Patrimonio Mundial.

On this day, 23 years ago, and after almost two years of work, the Church of the Virgin of Tobed, Santa Tecla in Cervera de la Cañada, the Collegiate Church of Santa María in Calatayud, La Seo, San Pablo and the Aljafería in Zaragoza were added to the list of sites highlighted by UNESCO as sites of outstanding universal value in the declaration of the Mudejar Architecture of Aragon as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The extension of the declaration to the province of Zaragoza highlighted the territorial nature of a style in which history, art, materials, landscape, traditions, and people are key.

We want to congratulate all those who work for this heritage and for their knowledge, undoubtedly the most powerful tool for its preventive conservation.

And, above all, thanks to the inhabitants who maintain these heritage sites, guarantors of this rich legacy we have inherited.

From Territorio Mudéjar, we celebrated this date today with the Mudéjar World Heritage Route, visiting the Collegiate Church of Santa María de Calatayud, the Church of Santa Tecla de Cervera de la Cañada, and the Church of the Virgin of Tobed, churches that reveal the paradigms of the style that holds the UNESCO World Heritage status. We also did so with live painting sessions by artist and researcher Pilar García Verón, who is part of the Territorio Mudéjar research network.

Specifically, on Tuesday, we will hold a meeting of researchers from the Territorio Mudéjar network with those responsible for many of the nearly fifty projects launched by this organization since its founding.

We participated in the international sculpture symposium in Alabaster with the aim of collaborating on a project in 2025.

Paneles decorativos en alabastro tallado con motivos vegetales y ornamentales en relieve.

On Monday, we made a technical visit to the CIDA (Comprehensive Alabaster Development Center) in Albalate del Arzobispo as part of the 14th International Alabaster Sculpture Symposium, with one goal: to work on a collaborative project for 2025.

We’ll soon be able to tell you more about this initiative, which we’re working on hand in hand with CIDA Director Santiago Martínez.

Meanwhile, we enjoyed the array of artists participating in the event, who transformed alabaster into unique works that will remain as a legacy for all.

These artists include: Sasho Sazdovski (North Macedonia), Robert Buček (Czech Republic), Ingrid Tost Dalmau (Spain), Antonio Reiné (Spain) and Martha Quinn (Ireland).

The Comprehensive Center for the Development of Alabaster (CIDA) leads initiatives for art and innovation. It seeks to become a benchmark in alabaster sculpture, attracting artists from all over the world. CIDA is also a benchmark in alabaster training.

Territorio Mudéjar participates in the training sessions on Muslim-Friendly tourism organized by the Las Fuentes Foundation.

Ponencia de Territorio Mudéjar en las jornadas de formación sobre turismo Muslim Friendly en Zaragoza.

Territorio Mudéjar is participating in the Muslim-Friendly Tourism Training Sessions organized by the Las Fuentes Foundation, which will be held from November 12 to 19 in Tarazona, Zaragoza, Quinto, Tauste, Montalbán, and Aínsa.

These workshops cover a variety of topics and begin on November 12th at the Tarazona tourist office with a session on halal food culture. The goal is to learn the basics of halal and its application in the hospitality industry, as well as to learn more about this cuisine (see schedule at the end of the post).

Our collaboration is part of the framework agreement signed with the Las Fuentes de Córdoba Foundation and through Bárbara Bejarano, director of the foundation and researcher of the Territorio Mudéjar stays 2022-2023-2024

Specifically, our role is to introduce the basic concepts of Mudejar architectural resource management (resources and territory, Mudejar architecture of Aragon, UNESCO World Heritage status, and the impact of management on the territory) and the tools for recognizing the resources that give places their identity and uniqueness.

As the Las Fuentes Foundation points out, Andalusian cultural heritage represents an attraction that can be used in Aragon to propose a new tourism model, with a positive impact on both the heritage and its surroundings and the communities in which it is located: cultural and Muslim-friendly tourism, both national and international.

November 12. Tarazona. Halal Gastronomic Culture. From 3:00 PM to 9:00 PM

November 14th. Tauste. Professional Muslim-Friendly Tourism Staff. 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

????️ November 15, Zaragoza. Professional Muslim-Friendly Tourism staff. From 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Church of San Pablo.

????️ November 18th. Fifth. Halal Gastronomic Culture. From 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

????️ November 19. Aínsa. Professional Muslim-Friendly Tourism Staff. 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

November 21st. Montalbán. Professional Muslim-Friendly Tourism Staff. 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

A pilot project begins to bring Mudejar heritage and its management closer to adult classrooms.

Building a Mudejar heritage identity and engaging the residents of our partner communities to value this heritage as part of their history are two of our guiding principles.

We’ve been working along these lines with programs in schools and through the development of educational materials. Now, we’re taking this a step further.

This week we’re launching a pilot project to bring Mudejar heritage and its management closer to adult classrooms. We’ll provide training using our teaching materials.

The activities will begin on October 31 in Villarreal de Huerva and continue in the towns of Villar de los Navarros, Daroca, and Herrera de los Navarros.

In these classrooms, we will present Territorio Mudéjar’s educational projects and our methodology. There will also be a practical session.

Our goal is to establish relationships with the monument through study and experimentation at all levels; to connect the monument with its context and surroundings, both past and present; and to identify its past, present, and future values.

We continue working on knowledge and dissemination

CALENDAR

Thursday, October 31st. 4:30 p.m. Villarreal de Huerva

Tuesday, November 5th. 7:00 p.m. Villar de los Navarros

Wednesday, November 6th. 5:00 p.m. Daroca

Thursday, November 7th. 4:00 p.m. Herrera de los Navarros

Workshop of the Alliance of Cultural Landscapes and Related World Heritage Sites in Gran Canaria

Territorio Mudéjar has participated in the workshop Alliance of Cultural Landscapes and Related World Heritage Sites “The involvement of local communities in the management of cultural landscapes”, which took place in Gran Canaria on 24 and 25 October, in the Cultural Landscape of Risco Caído and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria.

This meeting has been a fruitful exchange of good practices and applied management models: shared agreement models and tools for public-private collaboration in the management of heritage resources from the cultural landscape strategy focused on effective local development.

A pleasure to share, discuss and continue learning about heritage management.

Territorio Mudéjar participates in the IPH round table on the occasion of the European Heritage Days

The Institute of Heritage and Humanities (IPH), in collaboration with the Gonzalo Borrás Chair and the Government of Aragon, joins the celebration of the European Heritage Days, a joint action of the Council of Europe and the European Union.

It has done so with a reflection on a selection of four particularly significant and singular cultural routes in our Autonomous Community: the Mudejar, the Iberian Heritage, the Cid and the Drum and Bass Drum.

At the meeting held today, the director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, took part in the round table discussion “Routes as a heritage management system” moderated by the director of the IPH Concha Lomba and together with Juan Carlos Lozano, Director of the Gonzalo Borrás Chair; Pedro Luis Hernando, Director of the Centro de Estudios Mudéjares del Instituto de Estudios Turolenses, José Antonio Benavente, Manager of the Consorcio Patrimonio Ibérico de Aragón; Alberto Montaner, Professor at the University of Zaragoza and Rafael Antonio Domingo, Professor at the University of Zaragoza.

Victoria Trasobares explained the Territorio Mudéjar route model, which is proving to be a success with the public and its impact on the localities, is the repercussion of the management project that the organisation has implemented through collaboration between town councils and is making it possible to disseminate heritage, presenting on the ground the research and preventive conservation projects linked to it and attracting both the general public and the specialised/scientific public through routes à la carte.

This year’s conference coincides with the 75th anniversary of the Council of Europe and the 70th anniversary of the European Cultural Convention, and will be dedicated to Heritage of Routes, Networks and Connections, with the specific aim of showing not only the capacity of Cultural Heritage to create connections and links between different communities, peoples and countries, but also the need to work in a coordinated way to optimise resources and achieve greater achievements in an increasingly globalised and technified world.