These days we have visited Torralba de Ribota and Mesones de Isuela with the second year Art History group of the Conservation subject.
The people who will be the future of our profession experienced the use of real heritage for learning and enjoyed the architectural space as a classroom.
Thegroup was accompanied by teachers Gonzalo Preciado, Julio Gracia and María Ángeles Cejador.
In addition, Alfredo Notivol, guide of the Comarca del Aranda and former trainee of Territorio Mudéjar, was our cicerone in the castle of Mesones de Isuela.
The European project MOMAr (Models of Management for Singular Rural Heritage) led by the DPZ and in which we are a stakeholder has reached its goal with the last study visit.
It has done so after four years of work, with a meeting in the province of Zaragoza that has brought together more than 60 experts in the field of heritage management and political representatives from five participating countries (Spain, Romania, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Germany), as well as a large group of public and private entities from the province of Zaragoza that have been an active part of the project.
MOMAr has served to promote the exchange of good practices in heritage management in rural areas of the five partner countries, as well as the implementation of new management models in each of the participating territories.
Territorio Mudéjar has been an active part of this project, which has allowed us to expose our good practices in Europe, to meet very interesting initiatives and to participate in international projects.
The final MOMAr conference has given the opportunity to explore the challenges of managing cultural and natural heritage in rural areas and to discover how partners have successfully implemented different projects and strategies in response to the singularities of these territories.
At this meeting, the manual of good practices was presented and visits were made to the industrial salt heritage of the village of Remolinos, the Uncastillo Foundation, the ceramics workshop school in Muel, Fuendetodos – with the house where Goya was born and the museum of engravings – and Los Bañales.
It has been a pleasure to share this learning journey with all of you. The project ends, but we continue to stay in touch as allies.
Territorio Mudéjar and the Town Council of Fuentes de Ebro have signed the first special agreement between the entity and a partner town council to develop a strategic plan of sustainable tourism and heritage action through the insertion of emerging professionals and the development of a calendar of activities in that town.
The activities will consist of a recreational activity and a visit to Fuentes de Ebro guided by heritage professionals in which the Mudejar culture and its relationship with the town will be explored in depth. There will also be a dynamic of citizen participation to listen to the contributions that the neighbours want to make to the design of the strategic plan.
The agreement will last for six months. To develop it, the association Territorio Mudéjar has set up a work team made up of two young professionals who have been trained in the organisation thanks to the Desafío-Arraigo internship programme, better known as rural Erasmus, a pioneering project in Spain that the Diputación de Zaragoza and the University of Zaragoza launched in 2018 to enable university students to do internships in companies, institutions and associations in rural areas of Zaragoza. Territorio Mudéjar is collaborating with this project in 2019 and has made it possible to create a pool of emerging professionals with the necessary skills for the needs specified by the Fuentes de Ebro Town Council.
The team will be supervised by the project management area of the Territorio Mudéjar entity, which will define the strategic lines and integrate the locality’s own actions with the different innovation projects that Territorio Mudéjar has been developing since 2019 in its research stays and projects.
The mayoress of Fuentes de Ebro, María Pilar Palacín, explained that this agreement advances the local tourism strategy of the town, which seeks to make cultural resources, nature tourism and events visible to different target audiences. Among the heritage resources, she recalled that Fuentes de Ebro has the Gothic-Renaissance and Mudejar church of San Miguel, the Moorish and Jewish quarter in the town centre, vestiges of the civil war (trenches, machine gun nests) and the village of Rodén Viejo, declared a site of cultural interest; interesting post-war architecture and rationalist architecture (library), among others, to which are added the resources of landscape, gastronomy and nature.
The director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, added that this project is an interesting pilot model of collaboration with the partners that allows for progress in a line of work such as an “observatory” or “advisory committee” that the town councils can use to provide a strategic vision for their work in the management of local resources. Moreover, Trasobares added that “in the case of Fuentes de Ebro, the potential of the town and the great work done so far is evident, but also the intention to work with a vision of the future that would provide a link between the results of other previous projects such as: photography for different uses, the use of educational materials for families, the design of tourist awareness days or the impact of research actions on local development”.
This agreement will be a pilot test that could be extended to the rest of the partner municipalities that wish to incorporate emerging trained professionals who can be linked to the localities in the medium or long term, and introduce a way of working based on the quality and sustainability of the resources of the locality from a strategic and unitary supervision.
Calendar of activities:
The project began in January with various sectorial meetings and will continue with public activities from March with a calendar of conference-visits. The activities will have a fixed part (historical-artistic visit to the heritage of Fuentes -church and town planning- and to the historical complex of Rodén) and another thematic part that will change on each date with specialists or local experts:
Sunday 19 March: architecture and urban planning. Explanation of the urban development of Fuentes de Ebro and Rodén with specialists in the field linked to the town.
Sunday 16 April: Holy Week. Explanation of Easter Week linked to Fuentes de Ebro.
Sunday 7 May: Landscape and materials. Explanation of the extraction, work and use of the materials found in the area around Fuentes de Ebro, which are traditionally used for construction. Special emphasis will be placed on clay and alabaster. In addition, from the privileged enclave of Rodén, issues such as the explanation of the water resources and their importance in the configuration of the agricultural landscape that forms one of the signs of identity of Fuentes de Ebro and Rodén will be addressed.
Sunday 21 May: gastronomy and trade. Emphasis will be placed on local businesses and gastronomic traditions linked to the town of Fuentes de Ebro with various options such as micro-stops in invited businesses along the route and presentation of local products.
Sunday 11 June: activities for families. The visit will incorporate a didactic vision of the history of Fuentes de Ebro and Rodén through the different materials developed in the ‘Mudejar Pedagogy’ and ‘Mudejar Territory Circular’ projects.
Territorio Mudéjar currently has 40 member town councils in the province of Zaragoza and works to preserve and disseminate the Mudejar heritage as a driving force for local development.
We have the latest issue of Nsenzia magazine in which you can discover more about Territorio Mudéjar in a report that talks about our work and key projects.
Here is a sneak preview:
Montesquieu said that “happy are the people whose history is read with boredom”, because of the advantages of being aware of one’s roots and where we are going.
Nowadays it is something that is paraphrased but never put into practice, leading to a loss of identity and a host of petty mistakes. Fortunately, there is still a love of research and humanity.
Heritage, says Victoria Trasobares -director-, is the fourth pillar of development; this is how she conveys it in Territorio Mudéjar with an ambitious team in love with the possibilities of the historical identity of our territory.
A neat professional who knows the weight of the new generations, she offers an opportunity to students and professionals at different stages of their careers who are willing to reproduce such lessons, while discussing with them the best strategies to highlight the social function of the authentic spirit of each area.
The ‘Journey to Beauty’ route is a journey that faithfully traces the foundations of what rural evolution has presented and whose work has been adapted to the characteristics without leaving aside the present, as one of its objectives is to demonstrate – from the cultural fusion – how the chinks of the past are part of today. An ambitious work that not only deserves the recognition that characterises it: it is a clear example to follow in the protection of the echoes of a legacy.
Aragon conquered FITUR 2023 with its heritage and Territorio Mudéjar was there with our World Heritage brand that we were able to see in 360 degrees.
Once again this year, we attended the International Tourism Fair held at IFEMA (Madrid), one of the main international meetings of the tourism sector. The Aragonese stand this year focused on the cultural and natural assets of Aragon declared World Heritage by UNESCO: Aragonese Mudejar art, the Aragonese section of the Way of St. James, the Pyrenees-Monte Perdido and the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Arc.
In this way, the aim was to showcase the Community’s heritage and, at the same time, the wide range of leisure and active tourism activities and products such as ecotourism, wine tourism, astro-tourism, family tourism, gastronomy, slowdriving, etc.
The director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, attended the fair and accompanied the European Heritage Institute in the presentation of the network of medinas.
January brings us a special interview with the director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, in the latest issue of Nsencia, in which we take a closer look at the work of the organisation.
“We work on designing and developing strategies and implementing projects designed from a deep understanding of heritage resources as part of the development of rural communities and their inhabitants. We work in dispersed and sparsely populated places and with tailor-made models It’s no use copying what has been successful elsewhere, because it’s not the same to manage heritage in a town of 700,000 inhabitants as in another town of 100″, explains Victoria Trasobares.
And when asked if we still have a lot to know, he says: “Of course. The monuments and the context in which they are located influence the development of the communities and the territory. It is more necessary than ever to continue researching, but incorporating new visions, showing the work processes, the results, the people behind them and the proximity to the field”.
“We have launched 45 projects, 23 of which have arisen from the Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis research stays and projects, an example of innovation inside and outside Spain. This initiative implements actions in pilot mode and offers results in research, communication and development-investment-financing. As an example, we have studied topics such as materials and techniques from the permanence of the trade, the conservation of buildings from the design of new uses while respecting historical uses, the communication of heritage and its social function, education and digitisation,” explains Victoria Trasobares.
How can projects be made to have an impact on the territory?
“With constant work, thinking strategically to highlight the uniqueness of our localities from the heritage point of view and looking for common lines of work. We try to connect with all the economic activities of the territory, generating high quality dynamics applied through professional networks. Perhaps our best skill is to find people with a forward-looking approach, who work in the medium or long term without losing sight of the present,” he adds.
One of your main actions to raise awareness of the Mudejar style has been the “Rutas Territorio Mudéjar, viaje a la belleza” (Mudejar Territory Routes, a journey to beauty). What does this temporary journey offer?
“The project is an example of the vision we have of heritage and its use for tourism. They are heritage routes to cultivate the spirit and to show a cultural leisure designed to suit the localities we visit, counting on the people. With our trainees, we are looking for a way to connect with new audiences. In this way, travellers find a heritage shown by professionals, with very careful logistics and personalised attention”.
More than 80 people took part in the special Territorio Mudéjar route through Calatayud, Cervera de la Cañada and Tobed, which brings to a close the celebrations of the 20th anniversary year of the declaration of the Mudejar as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The event was attended by researchers, students, professionals and collaborators who work with the organisation under the direction of Victoria Trasobares. In addition, specialists such as Professor Esteban Sarasa, an expert in Aragonese medieval history, the architect Javier Ibargüen, representatives of the town councils of Calatayud, Cervera de la Cañada and Tobed, José Manuel Aranda, José Manuel Gimeno, Nuria Amela and Pascual Royo, the mayor of Ateca, Ramón Cristóbal, as well as the congresswoman Noemí Villagrasa, also took part in the event.
It not only included visits to monuments declared UNESCO World Heritage Sites, such as the collegiate church of Santa María in Calatayud, the church of Santa Tecla in Cervera de la Cañada and the church of the Virgin of Tobed, but also included exclusive visits to unusual places such as the viewpoints of the Mocha Tower in Calatayud: the viewpoints of the Torre Mocha in Calatayud as part of an interesting itinerary through the Moorish and Jewish quarter of Calatayud by Javier Gómez Patrocinio and Laura Villacampa, authors of the Mudetrad project; micro concerts of viola da gamba, lute and flutes in the churches of Cervera de la Cañada and Tobed by Carlos Bonal and Fernando Marín, a work derived from the research stay that studies the acoustics of Mudejar buildings; a tour of the coastal paths of the churches of Cervera and Tobed, to finish in the Mudéjar Museum of Tobed with a tasting of local gastronomic products including a sample of wines from the D. O. Borja, Cariñena, Cariñena, Cariñena, Cariñena, Cariñena, Cariñena, Cariñena and Cariñena.O. of Borja, Cariñena and Calatayud.
The conference was a tour of the main projects that the Territorio Mudéjar network is developing in the 40 partner villages. “It has been a technical day through a very special journey through the heritage of our villages in which we have shown some of the results that are having our research stays that, in its fourth call, already have an international character and that allow us to deepen our knowledge of the Mudejar. We have interspersed walks and visits with explanations of projects. We have also done it in a special way, for example, with live music resulting from the work of our research stays, short 12-minute concerts in each of the buildings we have visited. The experience has been magnificent, the attendees have known all the work we do and its processes through a visual and experiential catalogue”, explains the director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares.
Today we have also taken the opportunity to present the latest issue of the magazine Nsencia, in which Territorio Mudéjar and its 40 partner villages have a special role.
A few days ago we hosted a visit from the AMIR project (Accoglienza, musei, inclusione e relazione – hospitality, museums, inclusion and relationship).
This is a project managed by a network of museums that aims to propose cultural mediation activities carried out by migrants. It currently consists of 20 mediators and 11 museums, collections, villages, churches and public spaces in Florence and Fiesole.
AMIR is a project curated by Utopia Station and the thematic museum network Musei di Tutti.
The project leaders Chiara Damian and Silvia Borsotti travelled to Territorio Mudéjar. Also involved in the project as cultural mediators were Nagham Khalil (graduate in archaeology), Luisa Romano (graduate in history and art history), Marwa Elaomaryine (graduate in economics and commerce) and Patrik Padilla (graduate in economics and commerce).
This is a European funded project through Erasmus +. The visiting organisation is a social cooperative Stazione Utopia and they work at the museum in Fiessole, a town near Florence, with whose university they are connected.
The group participates in a seminar on cultural mediation to talk about its work on the integration of young first generation migrants through culture and museums.
The group visited us accompanied by Pilar Biel (professor of Art History and director of the master’s degree in cultural heritage management at the University of Zaragoza) and Jorge Jiménez (professor of Art History at the University of Zaragoza).
In addition to a study visit to the headquarters in Tobed, to Ricla (Castle project) and La Almunia de Doña Godina; they attended the presentation of Territorio Mudéjar “New partners” in Utebo where more than 60 people attended and the travelling exhibition commemorating the 20th anniversary of the declaration of Mudejar architecture as World Heritage was inaugurated.
The 4th B students of the subject “Mudejar, emblem of Aragon” of the University of Experience have carried out several days of learning using the heritage space as a place of knowledge. Walking through the Mudejar space, discovering the light atmosphere and even being able to touch the Mudejar materials have turned the buildings, monuments and villages of Territorio Mudéjar into a textbook for active and innovative learning.
For several days 55 students visited the villages and monuments of Tobed, Cervera de la Cañada, Aniñón and Torralba de Ribota. The closing ceremony of the course took place on Tuesday 8th November in the Parroquieta de La Seo after visiting the Mudejar monastery of the Canonesas del Santo Sepulcro (Canons of the Holy Sepulchre).
We love to host those who come to know and learn about the heritage of Territorio Mudéjar. A few days ago, we had the opportunity to share the visit of Cultur Viajes from the Santa María la Real Foundation: Route of the Arts in Aragon.
This trip was based on true cultural tourism: signature trips, sustainable and with attention to detail, a formula that coincides with our way of understanding tourism in heritage sites and spaces.
We visited Calatayud, Tobed and Daroca. The trip was supervised by María Heredia Mundet, director of Cultur Viajes, and was assisted by Victoria Trasobares, director of Territorio Mudéjar.
The trip, with 25 heritage travellers, has served to bring the two entities closer together and may be the seed for future projects.
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