Territorio Mudéjar is participating in the 16th International Symposium on Mudejarism, taking place in Teruel from October 17 to 19. More than 40 experts and researchers will meet to discuss the theme of this event: “Mudejar and Moorish Landscapes: Territories and Identities.”
The objective is to study how the different Mudejar and Moorish communities in Spain developed depending on the space in which they were located, creating more or less differentiated societies, with diverse border relations and specific political and patronage situations despite their shared cultural characteristics.
The director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, will present the exhibition of the 2019-2024 research stay and artist residency projects this Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Mudejar Architecture of Aragon. A research space open to the future. As you can see in the images, everything is already ready in the courtyard of the Museum of Sacred Art in Teruel.
This exhibition will be open until the 30th: Thursday and Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturday: 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Additionally, on Friday at 6:00 p.m., Mar Valls Fusté, a researcher with the Territorio Mudéjar network of artist residencies and stays, will participate. Her presentation is titled “Towards a corpus of Arabic inscriptions in the Kingdom of Aragon (13th-15th centuries): premises, methodology, and results of a research project.” This project was one of those selected in the latest 2023-2024 call for “Research stays and projects. Gonzalo M. Borras Gualis.”
More than 70 people joined us today at the presentation conference of Tarazona in the Territorio Mudéjar Network, given by Victoria Trasobares, director of the association Territorio Mudéjar, accompanied by the Mayor, Antonio Jaray, and Pablo Escribano, Third Deputy Mayor, Delegate for Sports, Youth, Tourism and Seniors.
It has been a pleasure to tell you what we do and how we work with our partner municipalities.
We have also inaugurated the exhibition “Mudejar: the guide” with a guided tour by Eugenia Gallego, from the Territorio Mudejar team.
The exhibition will be open until 6 October on Fridays and Saturdays from 18:00 to 20:00 and Sundays from 12:00 to 14:00.
Territorio Mudéjar has participated in the 9th Iberian Meeting of World Heritage Managers held in Sintra (Portugal). This is an important framework for analysis, the exchange of information and experiences, and the sharing of best practices in very relevant areas for the protection, conservation and enhancement of World Heritage. It is also an opportunity for managers of World Heritage sites in Portugal and Spain to share their experiences and discuss issues of mutual interest.
As Victoria Trasobares, director of Territorio Mudéjar, recalled today from Sintra: “The management of heritage resources must have as a fundamental basis their permanence as heritage from a broad vision of conservation, authenticity and sustainability of World Heritage sites, and in our case, in the ability to influence our local heritage beyond types of protection. These issues require constant professional attention and therefore can be focal points for high quality work opportunities that directly impact on the permanence of our villages as we know them”.
In Sintra we continue to advance in this idea and to learn with presentations on conservation and climate change, restoration techniques, new artistic experiences and heritage of Portuguese influence, among other interesting topics.
On the second day of the IX Iberian Meeting we talked about heritage and people, safeguarding and collaborative processes and cultural landscapes and sustainability, among other interesting topics. We had the opportunity to share experiences with other managers. Among them, with Juanjo Arteaga, from the City Council of Cuenca, whose historic fortified city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. With him we discussed possible collaborations around our rich common heritage of traditional building techniques: plaster, earth and wood.
The IX Iberian Meeting will be held this year in Portugal, in the Cultural Landscape of Sintra, and the entities in charge of the organisation are the National Commission of Unesco, Patrimonio Cultural I. P., and Parques de Sintra-Monte da Lua S. A., the managing body of this World Heritage Site.
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.
Territorio Mudéjar has once again collaborated in CortonaOpen3d, which this year was held in Urbino, a town in the Italian region of Le Marche (Marche).
CortonaOPen3d \ BlenderOPen3d 2024 is a Design in a Cultural Heritage context workshop that took place from 26 July to 4 August. During the workshop, participants developed an architecture-design project or an artistic installation in the context of the city of Urbino.
The workshop is an international initiative and is carried out in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano, the Fine Arts Academies of Brera (Milan) and Urbino, the University of Zaragoza and the Escuela Superior de Diseño de Aragón.
Within this framework, Territorio Mudéjar collaborates by monitoring the projects and with two activities:
On Tuesday, the director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, was in charge of giving a presentation on the digitalisation strategy of Territorio Mudéjar through the projects carried out by the organisation and with the specific presentation of the Villarreal de Huerva project. This municipal project, carried out thanks to funding from the #fundacionemprende and the collaboration of the #comarcaCampodeDaroca, consists of using virtual reality to understand and publicise its valuable historical heritage. This initiative, which seeks to promote cultural and heritage tourism, offers visitors an immersive and unique experience that will allow them to travel back in time.
In addition, the TM director took part in the jury responsible for evaluating the projects and awarded the Territorio Mudejar mention – which coincided with the jury’s mention – to the “Delirium” project. The aim of the project was to redevelop the square of Borgo Mercatale in Urbino, today a car park at ground level and underground, to recover visually the landscape and restore an ideal connection between the views of the wall of the Cini Towers and one of the main access routes into the city.
Territorio Mudéjar has completed the first phase of the preliminary studies for the drafting of the management plan for the Mudejar architecture of Aragon as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In this phase of the project, which is funded by the Ministry of Culture*, working groups have been held with the different stakeholders, field visits and working meetings with a full list of collaborators.
Territorio Mudéjar is responsible for the development and drafting of the study and diagnostic work necessary for the drafting of the Management Plan for the Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon property. The aim is to have an instrument that will enable all areas of management to be addressed in a comprehensive, sustainable and effective manner: protection, preservation, research, dissemination and territorial and social impact.
The work of Territorio Mudéjar has included the creation of working groups by areas of work that have enabled the analysis, diagnosis and drafting of preliminary documents to compose the management plan.
In this sense, the organisation has held a round of meetings with the different actors involved: managers, town councils and competent administrations.
As an example, an initial meeting-visit was held at the beginning of February in the church of San Pablo (Zaragoza), followed by another analysis and diagnosis visit. In these meetings, the parish and Sergio García, head of management, collaborated.
Two meetings were held in La Seo: an initial working group and a diagnostic one, in which Daniel Granada, canon of La Seo and of the Cabildo and parish priest of La Seo, took part.
In Calatayud, the meetings were held with José Manuel Gimeno as representative of the City Council and with Salvador Esteras, technical expert.
In Cervera de la Cañada there have been meetings with the town and parish councils. In addition.
In the case of Tobed, work has been carried out with the Town Council’s management team through the Mahoma Calahorrí Museum.
There has also been a meeting with the Directorate General for Patrimony and a round table with the heads of service of this directorate.
In April, a European visit-meeting was organised in Calatayud, Tobed and Cervera de la Cañada with a team from the University of Zaragoza, the Politecnico di Torino and the Politecnico di Milano.
In addition, there have been meetings with ZaragozaCity Council, the Diocese of Tarazona and the different interlocutors of the Administration.
There have also been technical visits. For example, one of them, held in April, was attended by participants at European level, specifically from the Politecnico di Torino.
In addition, some of the issues diagnosed and worked on during these months were presented at the technical conference of the Alliance of Cultural Landscapes and Related Places held on 25 and 26 April in Tobed, Cervera de la Cañada and Calatayud. This issue was presented as part of the knowledge of the host property.
LIST OF COLLABORATORS:
During this first phase of the project , the collaboration of:
Area of collaboration: State of the art in terms of research.
Esteban Sarasa Sánchez. PhD in Philosophy and Letters (History) from the University of Zaragoza, professor emeritus and director of the J. Zurita Chair of History at the Fernando el Católico Institution in Zaragoza.
Mar Vals Fusté. PhD in History from the Rovira i Virgili University and researcher on the Territorio Mudéjar project “Reading the Mudejar: Arabic inscriptions in medieval Aragonese churches (13th-15th centuries). Based on this stay and her speciality in Art History from the inscriptions, she has collaborated in approaching the monument as a document.
Ascensión Hernández. Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Zaragoza. She has collaborated on the state of the question of the authenticity criticism of buildings declared World Heritage, taking as a reference the work carried out on the parish church of La Seo a few years ago.
Luis Alberto Longares. PhD in Geography and lecturer in the Department of Geography and Territorial Planning at the University of Zaragoza. The area of collaboration has been the palaeoenvironmental evolution of the landscape and its knowledge for a correct management of the environment.
José Castillo Ruiz. Professor of Art History at the University of Granada. He contributes from the point of view of agrarian heritage, that is, how people have intervened in the landscape in which the monuments declared World Heritage by UNESCO are contextualised.
Area of collaboration: building management
Daniel Granada, secretary of the Cabildo de La Seo and parish priest of the parish of La Seo, and Sergio Blanco, heritage delegate of the Diocese of Zaragoza and manager at San Pablo.
Jesús Vicente Bueno, abbot of the Collegiate Church of Calatayud and heritage delegate of the Diocese of Tarazona.
Pedro Luis Hernando, professor of art history at the University of Zaragoza in Teruel and heritage delegate of the Diocese of Teruel-Albarracín.
Victoria Trasobares Ruiz, Director of Territorio Mudéjar and art historian. Manager of Tobed Mudéjar.
Working groups were held with them to analyse and diagnose aspects to be taken into account for the diagnosis of management, the state of conservation, the state of research, signposting and dissemination.
Area of collaboration: Dissemination
Irene Ruiz Bazán, professor at the Politecnico di Torino; Gianluca Vita, professor at the Fine Arts Academy of Urbino in the Department of Applied Heritage Technologies, have collaborated on digitisation strategies applied to diagnosis, dissemination and communication.
Patricia Ciria. Multimedia journalist specialising in strategic communication and marketing. She has collaborated in the diagnosis of communication, audience analysis, positioning and strategic lines of communication.
Estudio Mique. Graphic design studio specialising in branding, logos, labels, packaging, advertising and communication. He has collaborated in the analysis of branding and signage analysis of the Mudejar architecture of Aragon.
* This project of Territorio Mudéjar has been selected in the 2023 call for grants for projects for the conservation and dissemination of World Heritage properties of the Ministry of Culture and Sport. Territorio Mudéjar is thus part of a group of more than 20 Spanish organisations working to promote and improve the application of the World Heritage Convention and its guidelines. These grants are financed by the Ministry of Culture and aim to promote the development of projects for the management, protection and conservation of these assets, as well as to promote their accessibility, visibility and dissemination at national and international level.
The exhibition “Mudejar, the guide” travels this Friday to Ariza. Territorio Mudéjar will present this exhibition at 19.00 in the Palacio de los Marqueses. There will also be a guided tour.
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Ricla Town Council and Territorio Mudéjar have signed a special agreement to develop a strategic plan for sustainable tourism and heritage action, which consists of the creation of a technical management office to advance strategic projects and develop a calendar of activities in the town.
The agreement will have an initial duration of six months. To develop it, the association Territorio Mudéjar has set up a work team made up of young professionals who have been trained in the organisation thanks to the Desafío-Arraigo internship programme, with which Territorio Mudéjar has been collaborating since 2019 and which has made it possible to create a pool of emerging professionals with the necessary skills for the needs specified by the Ricla Town Council.
This morning this collaboration was presented at the Diputación de Zaragoza by the Deputy Delegate for Culture, Charo Lázaro, the Mayor of Ricla, Ignacio Gutiérrez, and the Director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares.
The Deputy Delegate for Culture, Charo Lázaro, pointed out that the collaboration presented today “is in line with the work of the Diputación de Zaragoza: offering services to citizens and promoting collaboration between municipalities”. “I would like to highlight the value of these actions that Territorio Mudéjar carries out with its partner towns and villages and that manage to become a strategic pillar of development and directly involve the localities”, said the deputy.
The mayor of Ricla, Ignacio Gutiérrez, has argued the great potential that Ricla has. “Thanks to this agreement we are going to take advantage of this potential to contribute to local development through a tourism and heritage strategy,” he explained. “Using heritage as an engine for development is a great opportunity to establish new pillars of growth and wealth creation that are sustainable and inclusive,” added the mayor.
The director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, pointed out that this is the third special agreement that the organisation has signed with a partner town council and that it involves introducing a way of working based on the quality and sustainability of resources from a strategic and unitary supervision. “The model consists of creating advisory committees that the partner town councils can use to contribute a strategic vision to their local resource management work”, she pointed out.
Citizen participation
The team will be supervised by the project management area of Territorio Mudéjar, which will define the strategic lines and integrate the local actions with the different innovation projects that Territorio Mudéjar develops in its Research and Project Stays. A strategy for citizen participation will also be developed in order to gather the contributions that neighbours wish to make to the design of the strategic plan.
This agreement will allow new professionals to work in Ricla to implement pilot actions of preventive heritage conservation, accessibility and heritage visits, as well as actions of citizen participation with the different local agents.
It will also contribute to advancing the concept of cultural landscape and rediscovering the local castle under restoration from a unique model of transdisciplinarity in the teams currently working on the project.
The project started in February with the first sectoral meetings, which will continue in the coming months, and will start different public activities from March with a calendar of conference visits. The activities will have a fixed part (historical-artistic visit to the heritage of Ricla) and another thematic part that will change on each date with specialists or local experts.
Calendar of activities
Saturday 16 March: architecture and town planning. Urban tour in which the history of Ricla will be explained through the evolution of urban planning and the explanation of its main architectural landmarks, such as the church of the Assumption or the castle.
Saturday 20 April: Landscape. There will be a visit to the architecture and town planning of the town that bring together the life of the residents of Ricla with special attention to the landscape, which is the context that has conditioned and made the town evolve in a certain way.
Saturday 11 May: palaeontology. Ricla has a rich palaeontological heritage located in the surrounding area. Through the route, you can see how this legacy from thousands of years ago still conditions the town today.
By mid-June. Ricla with the family. Educational activity. This is a route with a markedly didactic and educational character. It is aimed at all ages and will take up the work carried out in the 2021-2022 school year with CEIP Maestro Monreal on the project “Circular. Family walks” project. A project of materials for family and educational visits, carried out thanks to the Rural Development Programme (PDR) of Aragon 2014-2020 in the call for aid for the preparation and implementation of cooperation projects between local action groups, for the year 2019 through the group Fedivalca – Comarcas de Valdejalón and Cariñena.
Each dissemination activity will have the collaboration of local people and different gastronomic presentations such as seasonal fruits (cherries, peaches and different varieties of stone fruit), garlic, oil and wine, honey and preserved candied fruit such as figs, as well as meats and bakery and pastry preparations.
Territorio Mudéjar’s strategic objective is to promote curricular or training internships and to professionalise profiles linked to heritage in order to boost employment in rural areas, attract professionals and develop projects that involve the conservation of our heritage and investment in our villages as a differentiating element.
Rural Campus: This initiative, developed by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, in collaboration with the Ministry of Universities and public universities, will allow university students of any official qualification to carry out academic internships in municipalities of less than 5,000 inhabitants.
Desafío and Arraigo Programmes. Territorio Mudéjar will participate one more year in the edition of ‘Erasmus Rural’, funded by the Diputación de Zaragoza and managed by the University of Zaragoza, so that students and graduates of the Aragonese academic institution carry out internships in the rural areas of the province of Zaragoza and that seeks to contribute to the knowledge and talent to reach the rural environment. We will soon know more details about this initiative. Here you have the information about last year’s initiative:
For another year, we are participating in the rural mobility internship programme between the partner universities of the UNITA project.
Our entity also offers the possibility of co-supervising final degree projects (TFG) and final master’s degree projects (TFM) linked to our territory and our strategic lines of work.
The call for proposals is open on a permanent basis. If you have a proposal, do not hesitate to contact us and tell us about your project.
The exhibition “Mudejar, the guide” has travelled to Tauste. The director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, has been in charge of presenting this exhibition in the Casa de Cultura of the town. Eugenia Gallego, project assistant at Territorio Mudéjar, explained the exhibition. In addition, there has been a guided tour in which we have also been accompanied by the Councillor for Culture of the City Council of Tauste, Ángel Ansó; Pilar Fresca, technician of Culture of the City Council; José Ángel Cardona, responsible for Tourism of the City Council; and Isabel Ferrer, from the office of local development of Tauste.
The exhibition can be seen from 20 February to 3 March at the Casa de Cultura, from Monday to Friday from 9.00 to 13.00 and from 17.00 to 20.00. On Sundays, from 17.00 to 20.00.
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