The Territorio Mudéjar routes return with 49 destinations and new itinerary options.

Tres mujeres presentan el nuevo folleto de las Rutas Territorio Mudéjar 2025 en un acto institucional con proyección de fondo.

The Territorio Mudéjar network, in a strategic alliance with the Zaragoza Provincial Council, is launching the 2025 edition of its routes with 49 destinations, 19 itineraries, and 36 dates to discover the heritage, culture, traditions, and gastronomy of the municipalities that form part of this entity.

This year, as a new feature, the routes incorporate new options—project or signed routes and a special Mudéjar World Heritage route starting in Zaragoza—and add another destination—Torres de Berrellén, which has just joined Territorio Mudéjar as a partner.

The Deputy Delegate for Tourism of the Zaragoza Provincial Council, Cristina Palacín, and the Director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, presented the project this morning.

Reservations are now open and can be made at www.territoriomudejar.es/rutas/. The first itinerary will begin on February 15th, and routes will continue throughout the year.

The organization offers various options for reserving a spot, such as arranging transportation from Zaragoza or dining with the organization’s group at one of the establishments in Territorio Mudéjar’s partner towns. In all cases, reservations are essential.

Admission and guided tours to each destination are free for users who make a reservation, thanks to the discount applied by the Territorio Mudéjar association through funding from the Zaragoza Provincial Council for the organization’s projects.

ROUTE MODALITIES 2025

???? Routes around five themes

The first “Mudejar Territory Villages” package continues the essence of previous editions with 15 itineraries through the province of Zaragoza, guided by heritage specialists and organized into five themes:

1. Mestizo and border: Mudejar villages

2. Keys to a style: the origins

3. Bird’s eye view: the towers

4. The construction of space: light and matter

5. Military orders and territory (new 2025).

Visitors will discover not only magnificent architecture and the finest arts, but also places full of life and activity, enjoy cuisine based on local produce, and learn about centuries-old crafts thanks to collaboration with local businesses.

The UNESCO World Heritage routes will begin in Zaragoza.

The UNESCO World Heritage Route, which covers Calatayud, Cervera de la Cañada, and Tobed, along with its monuments that epitomize the origin and development of Mudejar art, has a new addition for the public this year. The itinerary will begin in Zaragoza, visiting some of the Aragonese capital’s UNESCO-listed monuments, which will be included in the explanations: the Tower of San Pablo (on the April route) and the Parroquieta of the Seo or the Cathedral (on the June and December routes).

Project Routes: Following Professor Gonzalo Borrás

These tours are the result of research projects conducted by the Territorio Mudéjar professional network and will involve, on the one hand, a transfer of knowledge and the application of research results in practical explanations about the territory. Three of these routes will be offered in this 2025 edition. This option will also feature guest speakers from leading experts in the field, such as Professor Esteban Sarasa, a member of the organization’s scientific committee.

Territorio Mudéjar and the DPZ launch a new edition of the Mudéjar routes that will visit 48 municipalities in 14 visits.

“Discover Mudejar Territory. 14 routes, 48 destinations” offers a calendar with 29 dates on which it will be possible to book one of the 14 guided tours to discover the Mudejar heritage, the landscape, the traditions and the gastronomy of the 48 municipalities through which they will pass. As a novelty, this year the visits are free of charge and those interested will only have to pay the cost of transport from Zaragoza if necessary.

The routes will start on 3 December and will run until the end of next year.

The routes were presented this morning by Cristina Palacín, the Zaragoza Provincial Council’s Deputy Delegate for Tourism, and Victoria Trasobares, the Director of Territorio Mudéjar.

The aim of the routes is to discover and enjoy the Mudejar style in the province and to learn about its evolution from the 13th century to the end of the 16th century. They are divided into five themes so that visitors can enjoy the urban beauty of the coexistence of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim populations; the origins of this artistic style, its language and building tradition; get to know one of the key elements of Mudejar art: the towers; enjoy the fortress churches and understand how the Mudejars integrated the landscape and the materials of the area; and discover the monuments declared World Heritage by Unesco: the collegiate church of Santa María de Calatayud, Santa Tecla de Cervera de la Cañada and the church of the Virgin of Tobed.

Those interested can already book their place through the Territorio Mudéjar website, by calling 876 634 125 or by sending an email to rutas@territoriomudejar.es.

The Journey to Beauty route rounds off the celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the declaration of the Mudejar as World Heritage

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.

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.

    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.

      Territorio Mudéjar and the DPZ launch the second edition of their guided tours to discover and enjoy this unique style.

      Territorio Mudéjar, viaje a la belleza’ (Mudejar Territory, a journey to beauty) offers 12 tours around the province based on the Mudejar jewels of 40 municipalities. They will begin on 2 July and can be booked on the association’s website.

      With the Mudejar as the common thread, these routes aim to disseminate and promote the historical and artistic heritage of the localities, as well as other tourist attractions (trade, crafts, nature, gastronomy…).

      One of the novelties this year is the collaboration with local producers.

      All the information can be found in the 10,000 leaflets published. A QR code appears on them, which can be used to reserve a place for a visit, a procedure that can also be carried out on the Territorio Mudéjar website, by calling 876 634 125 or sending an email to rutas@territoriomudejar.es.

      ‘They are very accessible, close and comfortable routes, in which we try to disseminate the great Mudejar heritage of our province through local professionals, which at the same time serve to make lesser-known localities more visible’, explains Victoria Trasobares.

      Along the routes, visitors can enjoy the urban beauty of the coexistence of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim populations, the emergence of the key works of the 14th and 15th centuries such as the fortress churches and towers and of course the Mudejar architectural jewels of the province which have been declared World Heritage Sites by Unesco.

      Will you join us?

      BOOK HERE: https://www.territoriomudejar.es/rutas-territorio…/

      Mudejar valley culture, in the Ruta 67 digital catalog of the Community of Calatayud

      The Ruta 67 digital catalog was created as part of the “Descubre tu comarca” (Discover your district) employment workshop, in which Territorio Mudéjar participated by presenting one of the sessions. It maps out tours of the Community of Calatayud district, to discover its historical, cultural and culinary treasures. These routes invite travelers to enjoy the Mudejar heritage in these towns:

      Territorio Mudéjar participated in this employment workshop last year by offering a training session that included a field trip to the entity’s offices in Tobed. Participants who took part in the workshop, sponsored by the Community of Calatayud district and subsidized by the Government of Aragon and the INAEM, for a full year received a level 3 professionalism certificate for local tourism promotion and visitor information, which qualifies them to work in visitor information settings.

      Posters with QR codes will be set up in the towns through which the routes pass, which travelers can scan with their mobile phones to read the digital brochure. You can also download it here.