The director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, participated a few days ago in the conference ‘Entrepreneurship in the tourism sector’, which was held in Calatayud as part of the Aragonese Entrepreneurship Week.
The session was also attended by Luis Poch, CEO of Bikefriendly Group; Víctor Millán, manager of Balneario Sicilia-Serón, and Lucas Montaner, manager of Gambito Club Golf Calatayud. Jesús Brotons was in charge of moderating the round table.
The event was also attended by the mayor of Calatayud, José Manuel Aranda, the manager of the Aragón Emprende Foundation, Pedro Pardo, and the president of the ADRI Calatayud-Aranda, José Ignacio Gallego.
The Casa de las Conchas de Borja, a 16th century Renaissance palace that was declared a national monument in 1978, has today inaugurated its restoration after being closed for 40 years.
It is now reopening as a library and conference centre after an investment of more than 1.3 million euros, financed almost equally by the DPZ and the City Council.
Consolidation and rehabilitation work on the Casa de las Conchas, an emblematic building owned by the municipality and located in the historic centre of Borja, began in the early 1980s, but was not completed and the building has been protected by scaffolding for 24 years.
In 2018, the Diputación de Zaragoza and the Consistory started the definitive restoration of the palace. Once completed, the more than 2,000 square metres of the Casa de las Conchas will be recovered for the enjoyment of the people of Borja.
The inauguration was also attended by the mayor of Borja, Eduardo Arilla, and the rest of the municipal corporation; the president of the Comarca Campo de Borja, María Eugenia Coloma; the provincial deputies Feliciano Tabuenca and Elena García Juango; and other mayors of the area. Also in attendance was the director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares.
The palace is a residential building built for the Vera family between the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century (it was completed in 1524). Originally, the entrance door to the Casa de las Conchas was decorated with iron nails in the shape of shells, which gave the building its name. After its declaration as a national monument in 1978, it is now protected as an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC).
Territorio Mudéjar has awarded three research stays and four runners-up prizes to carry out innovative projects that contribute to the development of the partner towns through the responsible and sustainable use of cultural and natural heritage resources.
This is the fourth call for applications for the stays named after Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis as a tribute to the distinguished professor and expert in Mudejar art. Each of the stays is endowed with 6,000 euros and each runner-up with 4,000 euros.
The projects selected by a team of interdisciplinary experts range from the creation of a white book to conserve traditional architecture, the drafting of a digitalisation strategy, sound contexts in the Mudéjar through early music, a strategy to make the Mudéjar heritage visible to the Muslim public, the study of the geometric elements of Mudéjar churches, the creation of analysis maps of the partner towns and the study of light in the Mudéjar through drawing and painting.
These projects are in addition to the 16 from previous editions and the more than 36 professionals who have formed the network of researchers of the stays since they were launched in 2019 and who have provided new perspectives on the management of Mudejar heritage, have had a positive impact on the villages and have promoted an interdisciplinary work network. In addition, specifically, they have improved the knowledge of the Mudejar as World Heritage and the benefits it brings as an international brand recognised by Unesco.
The selected stays are:
1-“Prevention and conservation from urban planning: development of a tool for the protection of traditional architecture”. Javier Gómez Patrocinio (PhD in Architecture, Polytechnic University of Valencia) proposes the development of recommendations, in the form of a white paper, to serve as a framework for implementing criteria for the conservation of local traditional architecture in urban planning management.
2-“Mudejar Smart 3D. Digitalisation strategy for the Mudejar territory”. Gian Luca Vita (Politecnico di Milano) and Marco Luchini (Politecnico di Milano and Federico II University of Naples) propose the creation of a series of three-dimensional models for
test the implementation of a way of working with the heritage digitisation process that is useful when generating new projects. They plan to draft a digitisation strategy for Territorio Mudéjar that is adapted to the specific circumstances of the territory and its heritage.
3-“Contextos sonoros y arte mudéjar, una aproximación incipiente desde la interpretación históricamente informada (ss. XVI-XVIII): ecos del pasado y proyecto de futuro” (Sound contexts and Mudejar art, an incipient approach from historically informed interpretation (16th-18th centuries): echoes of the past and a project for the future). The musicians and researchers Carlos Bonal, Miguel Bonal and Carlos González (University of Granada, Royal Conservatory of The Hague and University of Castilla La Mancha) aim to generate new artistic contexts through the study of early music and the original acoustics of the Mudejar heritage space and to reflect on the possibilities for the future of this heritage as a space linked to musical practice.
The selected runners-up are:
1-“Assessment of the muslim-friendly potential of Territorio Mudéjar for the reception of knowledge tourism”. Bárbara Ruiz Bejarano, PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies (University of Alicante and Las Fuentes Foundation) studies the opportunity to make Aragon’s great Mudejar heritage visible to Muslim tourists, based on a new form of knowledge tourism, of higher quality, centred on heritage, history and its contemporary heritage through the “Halal” tradition.
2-‘Mudéjar RGB’. Víctor Solanas-Díaz, PhD in Art History (University of Zaragoza), will study in depth the geometric elements used on the exterior of the main Mudéjar churches to obtain a study of the rhythm through a series of ‘motifs’ that he will then take as a reference in the artistic interventions that he will develop linking the Mudéjar heritage and its translation to different museums and art galleries in Spain.
3-‘Mudejar landscape’. Javier Montori Montolar and Esteban Lahoz Montolar, graduates in Fine Arts (University of Barcelona) and Master PhotoEspaña, propose to digitise the terrain and morphology of the villages through a series of analysis cartographies (the starting point will be a photogrammetric survey of the village). With this, they aim to create a sustainable tool that contributes to heritage conservation and attracts the scientific and educational community.
4-“Mudejar as dermis. Light in Mudejar art”. The artist and plastic arts researcher Pilar García Verón (Complutense University of Madrid) seeks to bring the public closer to Mudejar art through the study of its aesthetic variables. Through drawing and painting, she aims to capture a specific stage in the temporal and spatial development of light in order to show how it dematerialises form.
Territorio Mudéjar celebrates its fourth anniversary as a model of success
Territorio Mudéjar celebrates this week its fourth anniversary as an association of town councils, currently 40 member municipalities and one collaborating partner, whose objective is to consolidate a unified and collaborative management network for the use of the historical and artistic resources linked to the important Mudejar heritage, understanding them as an engine for the development of the villages and as an element of identity for the maintenance of the communities that make up our territory.
As a result of these four years of work, Territorio Mudéjar has become a model of good innovative practices at international level (it is taken as a model of successful management, for example, in the regions of Groningen -Netherlands-, in the Heritage Lab project of the Libau Foundation, and in South Bohemia -Czech Republic-). It has also been selected by the Ministry of Culture to present the entity as a management model at the 16th Meeting of World Heritage managers to be held on 28 and 29 September in Mérida.
Territorio Mudéjar has participated in the international conference on Culture, Territory and Politics organised by the research group Observatorio Aragonés de Arte en la Esfera Pública and the City Council of Graus. It also has the support of the Institute of Heritage and Humanities and the Vice-rectorate of Academic Policy of the University of Zaragoza.
In this meeting, held online, national and international speakers analysed the role of institutions in heritage management, the reality of heritage in rural areas and its implication in the landscape and the territory.
They also reflected on the different ways in which we interact with heritage: from destruction to rehabilitation and its use as a revitalising resource.
Territorio Mudéjar took part in this discussion forum of interest to researchers, managers, teachers and students of disciplines related to heritage management. We spoke on the subject of “Heritage in rural areas: uses, proposals, possibilities and realities”. Specifically, the director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, spoke about the management of UNESCO World Heritage in rural areas and detailed how the Territorio Mudéjar network works to build a new model from the local reality.
The presentation focused on research and on projects linked to UNESCO World Heritage, the cultural and historical-artistic heritage management and territorial development strategies based on culture.
What a pleasure to share good practices with heritage professionals!
Would you like to work with educational materials related to the Mudejar identity of the villages in the classroom? Do you understand the heritage space as an innovative learning space?
In the coming weeks the first action of the project “Rural school in motion” (Circular desde la escuela rural) will begin, an introductory course to the project in which Territorio Mudéjar offers to those interested in linking education, heritage and innovation to know the starting point and the methodology with which it will work until mid 2022 together with seven of the local development groups in the province of Zaragoza coordinated by the ADRI Calatayud Aranda group.
“Rural school in motion” is a cooperation project between rural development groups coordinated by the ADRI Calatayud-Aranda group, together with Cedemar, Adefo Cinco Villas, Asomo Moncayo, Adrae Comarca Alta del Ebro, Fedivalca y Adri Jiloca Gallocanta, and financed by the Government of Aragon through the Leader programme and the Provincial Government of Zaragoza through the Territorio Mudéjar association, as a private collaborating entity that manages the implementation and execution of the initiative.
The aim is to develop educational materials related to the Mudejar identity of the villages, placing rural schools and the educational community of the villages at the centre of the project, with a triple purpose:
◾️To work on the introduction of the Mudejar heritage identity in the work programmes of schools beyond the artistic or complementary areas.
◾️To involve the educational community in the valuation of Mudejar heritage as part of their personal history, which favours the knowledge, conservation and dissemination of the identity of the towns.
◾️To use the work carried out in schools as material for dissemination and tourist use on the Mudejar heritage of the villages for family and children audiences.
🔺 In the COURSE we will explain the working methodology and the results of the pilot project that was carried out in the CRA Vicort Isuela during the 2018-2019 academic year and which is the starting point for the implementation of the project in the schools of the villages of Territorio Mudéjar.
It will be taught by Laura Castejón and Víctor Gumiel, teachers who carried out the design and testing of the pilot project, and Victoria E. Trasobares, director of Territorio Mudéjar who has extensive experience in the management and implementation of Mudejar heritage management projects in rural areas.
The Department of Education has included it as an approved course in its catalogue of ongoing teacher training activities and recognises the training hours.
The course will be carried out on-line through the entity’s digital work platform that we will set up for the specific training.
If you have any doubts or you want to consult us about any particular issue you
can call us on 876 634 125 or write an email to info@territoriomudejar.es
Would you like to work with educational materials related to the Mudejar identity of the villages in the classroom? Do you understand the heritage space as an innovative learning space?
In the coming weeks the first action of the project “Rural school in motion” (Circular desde la escuela rural) will begin, an introductory course to the project in which Territorio Mudéjar offers to those interested in linking education, heritage and innovation to know the starting point and the methodology with which it will work until mid 2022 together with seven of the local development groups in the province of Zaragoza coordinated by the ADRI Calatayud Aranda group.
“Rural school in motion” is a cooperation project between rural development groups coordinated by the ADRI Calatayud-Aranda group, together with Cedemar, Adefo Cinco Villas, Asomo Moncayo, Adrae Comarca Alta del Ebro, Fedivalca y Adri Jiloca Gallocanta, and financed by the Government of Aragon through the Leader programme and the Provincial Council of Zaragoza through the Territorio Mudéjar association, as a private collaborating entity that manages the implementation and execution of the initiative.
The aim is to develop educational materials related to the Mudejar identity of the villages, placing rural schools and the educational community of the villages at the centre of the project, with a triple purpose:
◾️To work on the introduction of the Mudejar heritage identity in the work programmes of schools beyond the artistic or complementary areas.
◾️To involve the educational community in the valuation of Mudejar heritage as part of their personal history, which favours the knowledge, conservation and dissemination of the identity of the towns.
◾️To use the work carried out in schools as material for dissemination and tourist use on the Mudejar heritage of the villages for family and children audiences.
🔺In the COURSE we will explain the working methodology and the results of the pilot project that was carried out in the CRA Vicort Isuela during the 2018-2019 academic year and which is the starting point for the implementation of the project in the schools of the villages of Territorio Mudéjar.
It will be taught by Laura Castejón and Víctor Gumiel, teachers who carried out the design and testing of the pilot project, and Victoria E. Trasobares, director of Territorio Mudéjar who has extensive experience in the management and implementation of Mudejar heritage management projects in rural areas.
The Department of Education has included it as an approved course in its catalogue of ongoing teacher training activities and recognises the training hours.
The course will be carried out on-line through the entity’s digital work platform that we will set up for the specific training.
Application form:
Option 1: If you have a digital certificate or signature
https://doceo.catedu.es/epgfp/portada
Option 2: If you do not have a digital certificate or signature, write a message to: info@territoriomudejar.es
If you have any doubts or you want to consult us about any particular issue you can call us on 876 634 125 or write an email to info@territoriomudejar.es
We are never lazy to go back to school, especially if we do it to talk about how to bring the Mudejar heritage closer to future generations.
Over the last few months we have been working with the teams from schools such as CEIP Maestro Monreal in Ricla, CEIP Virgen de la Peana in Ateca, CEIP Fernando el Católico in Villarreal de Huerva, CEIP Santa Ana in Mainar, CRA Río Ribota (Aniñón, Cervera de la Cañada, Torralba de Ribota, Villarroya de la Sierra) and CEIP Fernando el Católico in Quinto to develop our Circular desde la escuela rural (Rural School in motion) programme. And we continue to move forward in the next phase and to expand this network.
It is clear to us that the rural school is a fundamental agent for the durability of links with places. As the director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, explains: “It means working from the foundations and with a medium-long term vision given that it allows us a double objective. On the one hand, to work on consolidating the school, and above all the teachers, as an active agent of quality. A measurable objective of this would be to increase the degree of reinforcement of the teaching teams. Education professionals who choose the rural school as their life project”.
On the other hand, she adds: “Working on local pride and rootedness, the rural school must be able to educate individuals with analytical skills and this can only be achieved by giving possibilities of knowledge, so that the villages unfold their full potential as a space for active learning and become a possible vital option for the future”.
Circular desde la escuela rural (Rural School in motion) is a cooperation project between rural development groups coordinated by the ADRI Calatayud-Aranda group, together with Cedemar, Adefo Cinco Villas, Asomo Moncayo, Adrae Comarca Ribera Alta del Ebro, Fedivalca and Adri Jiloca Gallocanta, and financed by the Government of Aragon, from the Leader programme, and the Provincial Council of Zaragoza through the association Territorio Mudéjar, as a private collaborating entity that manages the implementation and execution of the initiative.
Territorio Mudéjar has commemorated today the 20th anniversary of the declaration as World Heritage with a meeting of researchers that has been held in Tobed and that has brought together those responsible for many of the more than 30 projects launched by this entity since its founding.
The aim of these initiatives is to deepen the knowledge of Mudejar art from different perspectives and to generate and promote local development projects based on Mudejar heritage resources: construction materials, popular architecture and its conservation, relationship between Mudejar and agricultural heritage, podcast to learn about the territory, guide to historic Mudejar carpentry, models of cultural management and restoration projects, educational materials to interpret the Mudejar in primary and secondary schools, plastic studies on Mudejar geometry, Mudejar art in the performing arts (music, dance and minstrelsy), digital inventories and virtual reconstruction of Mudejar buildings or maps of the territory through memories and emotions to broaden the view of what it means to be Mudejar…
Territorio Mudéjar and the Council of Zaragoza are celebrating today the 20th anniversary of the declaration of the Zaragoza Mudejar as World Heritage. On 14th December 2001, just two decades ago, UNESCO included six Mudejar monuments in the province of Zaragoza on its World Heritage List, thus extending the maximum recognition it had given 15 years earlier to the Mudejar of Teruel.
“The declaration of our Mudejar as World Heritage was a fundamental milestone that boosted the promotion, dissemination and international recognition of a genuinely Hispanic style in which Aragon, in general, and the province of Zaragoza, in particular, stand out as an artistic focus”, stresses the president of the Zaragoza Provincial Council and of Territorio Mudéjar, Juan Antonio Sánchez Quero. “That is why Territorio Mudéjar, the association of municipalities promoted by the Provincial Council, has spent months commemorating the 20th anniversary of an event that we will continue to celebrate throughout 2022 with an intense programme of activities aimed at both the general population and a more specialised public”.
The importance and scope of the Mudejar
The six Mudejar monuments in Zaragoza recognised as World Heritage by UNESCO are the apse, cloister and tower of the collegiate church of Santa María de Calatayud; the church of Santa Tecla de Cervera de la Cañada; the church of Santa María de Tobed; the Mudejar remains of the Aljafería palace; the tower and church of San Pablo de Zaragoza; and the apse, the Parroquieta and the dome of La Seo cathedral of Zaragoza. However, the uniqueness and scope of this style extends to more than a hundred examples of heritage in dozens of Zaragoza municipalities, so that Mudejar is present in 85% of the province’s territory.
“Mudejar is usually spoken of as Christian architecture carried out by the Mudejars, i.e. the Muslims who remained in the territory conquered by Christian power. However, the reality is that we are dealing with a much more complex phenomenon that has its roots in the arrival of the Islamic tradition in the Iberian Peninsula since the 8th century and whose influences took on their own form in the Christian era between the 13th and 16th centuries”, explains the director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares. “The Mudejar is an encounter between Islamic and Christian art, the result of the coexistence of cultures in medieval Spain. An art that represents the most genuine artistic manifestation of Spain and that has in Aragon, a land of frontiers and a melting pot of cultures, its greatest exponent”, says this expert in cultural and heritage management.
Today’s activities
Territorio Mudéjar is commemorating the 20th anniversary of its declaration as World Heritage today with a meeting of researchers to be held in Tobed, bringing together those responsible for many of the more than 30 projects launched by this organisation since its foundation. The aim of these initiatives is to deepen the knowledge of Mudejar art from different perspectives and to generate and promote local development projects based on Mudejar heritage resources: construction materials, popular architecture and its conservation, relationship between Mudejar and agricultural heritage, podcast to learn about the territory, guide to historic Mudejar carpentry, models of cultural management and restoration projects, educational materials to interpret the Mudejar in primary and secondary schools, plastic studies on Mudejar geometry, Mudejar art in the performing arts (music, dance and minstrelsy), digital inventories and virtual reconstruction of Mudejar buildings or maps of the territory through memories and emotions to broaden the view of what it means to be Mudejar…
In addition, this evening the radio programme La Brújula Aragón on Onda Cero will dedicate a special monographic programme to the Zaragoza Mudejar which can be heard from 19.20 onwards and which, among many other contents, will deal with the project ‘Territorio Mudéjar Intelligent Signposting’, which will bring together all the contents created over the last three years by Territorio Mudéjar to put them at the service of the inhabitants of the municipalities, visitors and knowledge of the heritage in situ linked to renowned international projects.
Promotional campaign and other commemorations
On the other hand, the Council of Zaragoza has just launched a publicity campaign on the occasion of the anniversary of the UNESCO declaration. Under the slogan ‘Zaragoza, Mudejar province: come and meet yourself’, the campaign vindicates the importance and potential of this unique heritage that is an engine of development for the territory and that also forms part of the identity of the inhabitants of the province of Zaragoza. Although it has been launched around the anniversary of the 14th December, the adverts will be present on television, press, radio and social networks over the next few months.
In addition, over the coming year Territorio Mudéjar will continue to commemorate 20 years of World Heritage with other activities such as the presentation of the project ‘Study of Aragonese Mudejar art, the legacy of Professor Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis’, an initiative that aims to expand knowledge about Mudejar heritage, promote the dissemination of interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies on this subject and broaden knowledge about this art. In this great project, directed and coordinated by Victoria Trasobares, works a team that brings together several prestigious institutions, including the Ministry of Culture and Sport, the Polytechnic of Turin, the Polytechnic of Milan and the University of Zaragoza.
2022 will also see the culmination of the ‘Circular desde la escuela rural, el pueblo como espacio de aprendizaje’ (Rural school in motion, the village as a learning space) project, an initiative that brings together heritage, education and innovation to develop educational materials that allow schoolchildren to learn about the Mudejar identity of their villages. The project will involve the collaboration of at least 14 rural schools and will incorporate professionals based in the villages of Territorio Mudéjar and from the Challenge programme, the ‘rural Erasmus’ promoted by the Council of Zaragoza, the University of Zaragoza and the DPZ Chair on Depopulation and Creativity.
Other planned activities include the travelling exhibition, ‘Mudejar, the intelligence of beauty. 20th World Heritage Anniversary’, which will continue touring the 37 partner towns of Territorio Mudéjar and which has been made possible thanks to the collaboration of Adri Calatayud-Aranda and the Leader grants from the Aragon Rural Development Programme 2014-2020; and the consolidation of the Territorio Mudéjar Routes and the Projects on Route: each month in 2022 an activity will be programmed for each project, promoting knowledge of the heritage and the local professionals who work on them.
The Council of Zaragoza has just launched an advertising campaign on the occasion of the anniversary of the UNESCO declaration. With the slogan ‘Zaragoza, Mudejar province: come and meet yourself’, the campaign vindicates the importance and potential of this unique heritage that is an engine of development for the territory and that also forms part of the identity of the inhabitants of the province of Zaragoza. Although it has been launched around the anniversary of the 14th December, the adverts will be present on television, press, radio and social networks over the next few months.
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