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What to see and do in Monroyo

What to see and do in Monroyo (Matarraña, Teruel): 5 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 2 Activities · 1 Historical milestones

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What to see and do in Monroyo

Monroyo
Village
Monroyo is a municipality of Teruel in the Matarraña comarca, in Aragon, located at 857 metres above sea level amid ravines, hills and mountain ranges such as that of Monroyo or that of the Sabinosos; the Tastavins river, which gathers the waters of the Monroyo river, marks its eastern boundary. It belongs to the Franja de Aragón, where an Aragonese dialectal variety of Catalan is spoken. During the First Carlist War, on 8 December 1839 Carlist troops burned around 137 buildings in the village, including the church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, which had to be rebuilt afterwards; the ermita of Nuestra Señora de la Consolación is also preserved. In the mid-19th century it had 1,396 inhabitants, a figure now reduced to 324.
Church of Monroyo
Monument
Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in Monroyo, rebuilt after the Carlist fire of 8 December 1839, which alongside it razed about 137 buildings in the town.
Festivities of Monroyo
Activity
Monroyo was the seat of an encomienda that Alfonso II granted to the Order of Calatrava and which brought together several villages, including Fórnoles. From the Calatravan dominion remains the palacio de la encomienda, which Madoz still described in the 19th century.
Festivities of invierno de Monroyo
Activity
Monroyo's winter festival is held in the town that headed a commandery Alfonso II granted to the Order of Calatrava, of which the palace that Madoz still described in the 19th century remains.
Calatrava commandery of the Matarraña
Historical milestone
Alfonso II handed a good part of the territory to the Order of Calatrava and the town remained the head of a commandery that grouped several villages, among them Fórnoles. From the Calatravan rule there remained the palace of the commandery, which Madoz still described in the nineteenth century.