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Tower of San Pedro de Teruel

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Tower of San Pedro de Teruel

Monument · Teruel, Comunidad de Teruel, Teruel

The tower of San Pedro is the bell tower of the church of San Pedro in Teruel and the oldest example of Teruel's Mudejar style, built in the last third of the thirteenth century and attached to the foot of the original church, which predated the present building; construction of the present church began in 1392 on the site of a Franciscan convent founded in 1220. The church, declared a World Heritage Site, kept in one of its side chapels the mummies of the Lovers of Teruel, discovered in 1555; since 2005 the Mausoleum of the Lovers, an adjoining museum space, can be visited alongside it. Its interior was decorated between 1896 and 1902 in Neo-Mudejar Modernista style by Pablo Monguió Segura and Salvador Gisbert, who also built a new cloister.

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