We are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the extension of the designation of the Mudejar of Aragon World Heritage Site with a fantastic programme of activities: podcast, tours, educational activities and an international gathering of managers of World Heritage sites

25 aniversario Mudéjar Patrimonio Mundial

Territorio Mudéjar presents a plan for communication, outreach, training and citizen citizen which it will implement during 2026 and 2027 to raise awareness of the value of the UNESCO declaration UNESCO to the public and bring together in Aragón the professionals in the field of heritage of the sites World Heritage sites in Spain, Portugal and Andorra

This plan has been designed with co-funding from the Ministry of Culture as part of the programme for grants for projects relating to conservation, protection and promotion of sites designated World Heritage Sites 2025

UNESCO Arquitectura mudéjar de Aragón Patrimonio Mundial
Ministerio de Cultura del Gobierno de España

Territorio Mudéjar commemorates the 25th anniversary of the extension of the designation of Mudejar Architecture in Aragon as World Heritage by UNESCO with a programme World Heritage by UNESCO with a programme of actions which will be will be carried out during 2026 and 2027 and which will have as one of its main milestones will be the celebration, next month in November, of the National Meeting of Managers of World Heritage Sites World Heritage which every year is held by the Ministry of Culture. The event will bring together in Aragón leaders and experts in wealth management from the following countries Spain, Portugal and Andorra to share experiences, analyse common challenges and discuss on the future of conservation, communication and management of the properties inscribed on the List of World Heritage Sites. Furthermore, to mark this anniversary, a number of special tours have been organised, a series of podcasts and programmes for educational purposes for schools rural and adult classrooms for, among other activities.

The commemoration will serve to reinforce the social and institutional recognition of one of the cultural legacies that are most distinctive in Aragon and to highlight the work carried out by the municipalities that make up the network of Territorio Mudéjar network, consolidating its role as a national benchmark in the management, promotion and revitalisation of the World Heritage in rural areas. This was explained today at a press conference by the -manager of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, and the deputy delegate for Culture of the Provincial Council of Zaragoza, Charo Lázaro.

The programme is structured through a strategic communication plan designed to strengthen cultural engagement and activation through a strategic communication plan designed to strengthen cultural engagement and activation through a strategic communication plan designed to strengthen cultural engagement and activation through a strategic communication plan and cultural engagement designed to strengthen the territorial identity linked to Mudejar culture, to increase its profile nationally and internationally and to encourage citizen involvement and institutional involvement in the preservation of its Outstanding Universal Value Exceptional. This communication plan has been designed and drafted thanks to the Grants for projects aimed at conservation, protection and promotion of sites designated World Heritage sites 2025 from the Ministry of Culture.

The first events of the commemoration get underway today with the recording live broadcast this afternoon at 7.00 pm at the headquarters of the Fundación Caja Rural de Aragón (Calle Coso, no. 29 in Zaragoza), of the first episode of a series of podcasts dedicated to Mudéjar art and to World Heritage . This new space for outreach will address key issues key issues such as the significance of the World Heritage listing, the uniqueness of the Mudejar architecture of Aragon, the role of UNESCO in the protection of heritage or the capacity to these assets to foster identity, social cohesion and impact on the territory. The launch of the project is supported by funding from the Provincial Council Provincial Council of Zaragoza, the Ministry of Culture, the collaboration of the Fundación Caja Rural de Aragón and the development in conjunction with the project Esto No Es un Museo.

The second of the measures will be the launch of a new new package of routes for Paseos with Firma, an initiative which invites you to discover the heritage Mudejar from perspectives that are innovative through a series of guided tours led by specialists. In addition to the usual World Heritage tours, there will be several special routes that delve deeper into the significance and the international significance of the UNESCO declaration in the municipalities within the network. The first of these tours will take place on Sunday 14 June to the World Heritage sites in (Cervera de la Cañada, Calatayud and Tobed) exactly when there are six months to go until the anniversary of the designation on 14 December. This is a new format for the timetable tomorrow morning schedule; those interested can come along using their own means and is subject to groups of a very small number a maximum of 15 people.

The plan has designed, in addition, a comprehensive set of measures educational and cultural mediation initiatives aimed at various audiences. In the school setting, we will once again work with the pupils from schools in rural areas from nursery through to sixth form on topics centred on Mudejar art as an identity, as well as on knowledge and understanding of World Heritage UNESCO. The new feature will be the design of teaching guides for schools and teachers which enable the introduction of the content into the various areas of knowledge of the educational projects of the various schools. To this end, in September we will begin working on a pilot project with the team of teachers from the schools in the Sierra de Algairén such as the CEIP Ramón and Cajal in Alpartir, the CEIP Sierra de Algairén de Almonacid de la Sierra and the CRA La Cepa.

The programme on teaching incorporates also various training initiatives for classrooms at adult or universities for older learners focused on knowledge and understanding of World Heritage sites. Among these the following stands out: the provision of a programme specifically designed for older people dedicated to Mudejar architecture and UNESCO World Heritage, in which the fundamental concepts such as Outstanding Universal Value will be addressed, the functioning of the List of World Heritage Sites, the Convention on World Heritage Sites of UNESCO, or the challenges currently facing the fields of conservation and management. The format may be adapted also to associations and organisations interested in incorporating it into their training programmes.

Likewise, we will continue to work on the recruitment of professionals to Territorio Mudéjar, on this occasion, the 7th call for applications for Research Stays for Research projects and Artistic Residencies Artistic Residencies, which will be launched at the end of summer in 2026, will address the possibilities for the application of the guidelines of the Convention on World Heritage in the management of innovative approaches to the heritage resources and their context of urban and cultural landscape.

One of the key moments of the programme will be the celebration in November of the National Meeting of Managers of World Heritage Sites. This annual forum is organised by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Spain since 2007 and constitutes the main venue for professional networking for those who work in the management of heritage assets listed on the List of World Heritage sites in our country.

Its aim is to contribute to a more effective conservation of these places and to promote the creation of networks of collaboration between managers, institutions and administrations. In its various editions, it has brought together more than a hundred or so participants associated with historic sites, monuments, cultural landscapes cultural landscapes, nature parks nature parks, cultural routes cultural routes, archaeological sites archaeological sites and other sites recognised by UNESCO.

The choice of Territorio Mudéjar as venue for this edition represents a recognition of the work carried out over the last few years in the field of research, conservation, training of professionals, outreach, dissemination and management of cultural heritage in rural areas. On this occasion, the topic we are working on is the training of professionals to address the challenges of managing our heritage and, in particular, the special characteristics that are offered by the properties UNESCO in its various settings and specific circumstances which require for ongoing training that integrates knowledge and skills across the board in different areas for a management focused on the future.

The plan designed includes in addition an important strategy for communication and visibility which envisages specific actions for different profiles of audiences in media of traditional and digital communication, social networks, installation of illuminated displays featuring the identity of UNESCO World Heritage sites in key locations, publication of informative materials for visitors such as the guides to partner towns, the design of new informative media and the signage for vehicles intended for the routes and activities of promotion carried out by Territorio Mudéjar.

With this programme, Territorio Mudéjar aims to turn the celebration of this 25th anniversary into an opportunity to strengthen public awareness of Mudejar architecture in Aragon, to broaden public participation centred on the heritage and to promote internationally a model of management which positions the rural municipalities and their capacity to work in the centre of conservation and the promotion of World Heritage .

Although the UNESCO declaration refers to a specific selection of properties, the historical and landscape cultural value of the Mudéjar style is recognised in its entirety historical and landscape of the Mudejar extends extends throughout the whole of the territory of Aragon. For this reason, the commemoration of the 25th anniversary and the plan for action promoted by Territorio Mudéjar will have a global reach across the municipalities that make up the network, enhancing the visibility of its heritage, promoting new opportunities for dissemination and citizen participation and consolidating a strategy shared for the promotion of the Mudejar as an element of identity and development of the region.

World Heritage Site with UNESCO status

The Mudejar architecture of Aragon is inscribed on the List of World Heritage of UNESCO through a single complex of monuments located in Teruel, Zaragoza and in towns in the Mudéjar region. Since 1986, in the city of Teruel, the following form part of the list: the cathedral of Santa María de Mediavilla and the towers of San Pedro, San Martín and del Salvador. Since 2001, in Zaragoza, the extension of the listing included the palace of the Aljafería, La Seo or cathedral of El Salvador and the church of San Pablo. In the province of Zaragoza and members of Territorio Mudéjar, the properties registered are the collegiate church of Santa María la Mayor in Calatayud, the church of the Virgin of Tobed, in Tobed, and the church parish church of Cervera of La Cañada.

These buildings are some of the finest examples of the evolution of Mudejar art in Aragon and represent the extraordinary richness of a cultural heritage which has its roots in centuries of cultural exchange.

Although the UNESCO declaration recognises a specific selection of monuments, the commemoration and the plan of action promoted by TerritorioMudéjar will benefit the group of municipalities that make up the network. The measures planned will boost the visibility of Mudejar architecture throughout the region, promote new opportunities for dissemination, training and citizen participation and will consolidate a strategy shared strategy to value this legacy as an element of identity, cohesion and development of the region.

What is Mudejar?

The Mudejar style is a historical and artistic expression which is created ex novo or is adapted to new uses of the territory conquered by the Christians in the 12th century and in which the Islamic tradition persists. The continuity of the tradition Islamic or Al-Andalus may be technical-architectural, aesthetic -ornamental, or both. This persistence may stem from the activity of the Mudejar population itself or also from the Christian population whose activities are related a13> whose activity is related to that continuity. And the definition applies to heritage in its broadest possible definition: architecture, the artistic objects or movable assets associated, urban planning, the cultural landscape linked to processes of transformation of the resources, such as as all those cases included in the designation of intangible cultural heritage which may be associated with Mudejar culture. [TRASOBARES,V. 2026]

What does it mean to be a World Heritage Site?

The World Heritage is an convention of UNESCO aimed at identifying, protect and preserve cultural and natural heritage sites ofexceptional universal value for all of humanity. Its aim is to promote cooperation at the international level to preserve sites which might deteriorate or disappear due to a lack of resources.

The designation as a World Heritage Site recognises that these assets belong to the heritage of the world heritage of the world heritage of the world heritage of the world heritage of the world heritage of the world heritage of the world heritage of the properties belong to the heritage shared by all the peoples, even though they remain under the sovereignty of their countries. More than a mere recognition, it implies a commitment to ongoing protection and conservation.

Among the more than one thousand sites designated are include the Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Wall of China, the canals of Venice and the waterfalls of Iguazú. Spain is the fifth country in the world with the most sites listed, with 50 sites recognised.

Region Mudejar

Territorio Mudéjar is an association of local councils whose aim is to strengthen a unified and collaborative management network for the use of the resources historical – artistic elements linked to Mudejar heritage, regarding them as a driving force for development of the municipalities and as an element of identity for the preservation of the communities.

The partner municipalities are Acered, Almonacid de la Sierra, Alpartir, Aniñón, Ariza, Ateca, Bárboles, Belmonte de Gracián, Borja, Calatayud, Calatorao, Cariñena, Castejón de Valdejasa, Cervera de la Cañada, Cetina, Cosuenda, Daroca, Fréscano, Fuentes de Ebro, Gotor, Herrera de los Navarros, Illueca, La Almunia de Doña Godina, Longares, Magallón, Mainar, Maluenda, Mesones de Isuela, Morata de Jiloca, Muel, Pozuel de Ariza, Quinto, Ricla, Romanos, San Mateo de Gállego, Saviñán, Tarazona, Tauste, Terrer, Tobed, Torralba de Ribota, Torrellas, Torres de Berrellén, Utebo, Velilla de Ebro, Villafeliche, Villamayor de Gállego, Villanueva de Gállego, Villar de los Navarros, Villarreal de Huerva, Villarroya de la Sierra y Zuera. Además, Brea de Aragón participates as a municipality partner.

Territorio Mudéjar at the Aratur fair 2026: three days, 17 visits and a success in terms of visitor numbers

Our participation in the Aratur trade fair Aratur 2026 has come to an end, and we are pleased with the work well done: 3 days, 17 visits well : 3 days, 17 visits well done: 3 days, 17 visits well done: 3 , 17 visits well done: 3 days, 17 visits well done: 3 days, 17 visits well done: 3 days, 17 visits well done: 3 days, a9> well done: 3 days, 17 guided tours for our 52 local councils, and their more than 150 heritage sites, 17 presentations of
local produce and 2 workshops on screen printing with the participation of more than 250
people who have flooded the corridors leading to get one of our bags bearing the Territorio Mudéjar brand.

We are very grateful for your interest in the project and for willingness to learn about the Mudejar heritage and the UNESCO heritage of the the villages and of the province of Zaragoza.

We’re looking forward to seeing you in the villages!!

* This activity forms part of the programme of projects 2026 which is carried out thanks to the collaboration of the Provincial Council of Zaragoza.

* ⁠The event has included a special promotion to mark the commemoration of the 25

Welcome to Villanueva de Gállego as a partner municipality in our network

The Town Council of Villanueva de Gállego has has joined the Territorio Mudéjar network and we extend a warm welcome with a presentation and an exhibition to introduce our work, what projects we carry out and what it means to be part of Territorio Mudéjar.

Together with Susana González, from the Town Council, and Victoria Trasobares, director of TM, we spoke about what the Mudejar style is, and where it can be found in the town, for example, in the tower. Furthermore, we climbed as well up the tower and discovered a little-known view.

Bi-annual technical meeting of the Alliance of Cultural Landscapes and Related Sites in Talayónica Menorca

Territorio Mudéjar participated in the technical workshops of the Alliance of Cultural Landscapes and Related Sites, held in Menorca Talayónica, from March 10 to 12.

Maru Gallego, from the TM team, has traveled to the World Heritage site since 2023 to participate in the meeting on Communicating World Heritage Properties: Interpretive and Outreach Resources to Connect with Society. This event brings together experts in heritage, communication, and outreach to discuss the best strategies for conveying the value of sites inscribed on the World Heritage List.

This event, which combines theoretical sessions with field experiences, aims to share experiences of initiatives aimed at strengthening the connection between heritage and society through the use of tools and methodologies that facilitate its interpretation and understanding by the public.

This biannual technical meeting of the Landscape Alliance included an intense day of conferences and visits to representative sites in Menorca, such as the Naveta des Tudons, the Ciutadella-Can Saura Museum, and the Numa Foundation.

We heard Pablo Jiménez Díaz, from the Ministry of Culture, discuss the different approaches to communicating World Heritage; Celia Martínez Yáñez of ICOMOS International speak about heritage law and regulation; we learned about a benchmark heritage education program from the San Millán de la Cogolla Foundation; and we learned about practical cases of heritage dissemination, such as the experience of the Madinat al Zahra Archaeological Complex, the educational project in the Sierra de Tramuntana, and the initiatives of Talayotic Menorca aimed at the local community.

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.

More than 70 World Heritage managers share experiences at the XVIII World Heritage Managers Meeting in Antequera

Territorio Mudéjar travels to Antequera (Málaga) to attend the 18th Meeting of World Heritage Managers. The director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, participates in this technical forum that the Ministry of Culture organises annually to promote the meeting, analysis and discussion of the problems that managers of sites inscribed on the World Heritage List encounter on a daily basis.

Its aim is to improve the conservation of these assets and to create a network of contacts between all the managers working on these assets, in order to share experiences, address challenges and find common solutions.

The meeting will be held until 26 June with activities both in the Museum of the City of Antequera and in the headquarters of the Royal Academy of Noble Arts, as well as in Antequera Town Hall, where the official reception was held this afternoon.

The meeting was opened by the Mayor of Antequera, Manolo Barón; the Deputy Mayor for Tourism and World Heritage, Ana Cebrián; the Councillor for Culture and Heritage, José Medina; the Deputy Director General for the Management and Coordination of Cultural Heritage, María Agúndez; Miriam Ugarte, from the UNESCO Conventions Department of the Ministry of Culture; Carmen Mora, Director of the Dólmenes de Antequera Archaeological Site; Alicia Castillo, lecturer at the Complutense University of Madrid;

During their stay, participants have the opportunity to visit the main monuments of the city such as the Dolmens, the Torcal, the Alcazaba and the Royal Collegiate Church of Santa Maria.

In total, more than 70 World Heritage managers are sharing experiences in this XVIII Meeting of World Heritage Managers in Antequera.

In the first workshop on social participation and world heritage we exchanged ideas on how to work on the uses of the space between the dolmens and the polygon.

We continued with a visit to the Museo de la Ciudad (MVCA), the Museo Sitio Dólmenes de Antequera and the Alcazaba.

The World Heritage Managers Meeting ended after a session on the evaluation of visitors to the Antequera Dolmens World Heritage Site and the presentation of the conclusions on social participation as the key to a management focused on people, on the inhabitants of the heritage.

On the last day, the director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, participated as coordinator of the working group “Dolmen Museum, inhabitants and visitors. Analysis and diagnosis of needs” together with the directors and managers of the sites: Menorca Talayotica (Consell de Menorca), Colonia Guell (Consortium), Risco Caido and the sacred mountains of Gran Canaria and the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Pichu in Cuzco (Peru).

Territorio Mudéjar concludes the first phase of the preliminary study to draw up a Management Plan for Mudéjar Architecture in Aragon as a World Heritage Site.

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.

European meeting-visit to advance in the preliminary study of the management plan for the Mudejar Architecture of Aragon.

The Alliance of Cultural Landscapes and Related World Heritage Sites has held its biannual assembly in several towns of Territorio Mudéjar: Calatayud, Cervera de la Cañada and Tobed. The assembly included a technical conference for members organised around the theme “Cultural landscape and management plans for UNESCO World Heritage sites”, which was attended by speakers and members from Spain, Andorra, Portugal and Italy. On this occasion, Territorio Mudéjar organised a European meeting-visit 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, which has served to advance the preliminary study for the drafting of a management plan for the Mudéjar 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.

Territorio Mudéjar is leading the preliminary work to draw up the Management Plan for Mudéjar Architecture in Aragon as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Today we celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the declaration of the Mudejar Architecture of Aragon as a UNESCO World Heritage Site with an important announcement: the Mudejar Territory team, led by Victoria Trasobares, is going to carry out the necessary preliminary work for the drafting, in the medium term, of the Management Plan for the “Mudejar Architecture of Aragon” as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Our project 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. We will thus form part of a group of more than 20 Spanish organisations that will be working over the coming months to promote and improve the application of the World Heritage Convention and its guidelines.

These grants are financed by the Ministry of Culture and are intended to encourage 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. In addition, one of the specific objectives this year, in line with the Mudejar Territory project, was to work on management plans in order to have an instrument that would enable all areas of management, protection, research, dissemination and territorial and social impact to be addressed in a comprehensive, sustainable and effective manner.

This work will begin with a diagnosis of the state of conservation of the assets, the instruments for their protection, their management and their signposting and dissemination. In addition, working groups will be set up with the institutions involved, with a strong focus on the territorial impact. The project will be developed through technical visits and field work.

We also continue to work in the territory with technical visits, such as those in December in Cervera de la Cañada and Tobed, to carry out one of our most important actions: professional technical advice to partner town councils on aspects of management, custody and conservation of our Mudejar heritage.

*This project is part of the 2023 grants for projects for the conservation, protection and dissemination of World Heritage properties of the call of the Directorate General of Fine Arts, Ministry of Culture.