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Monroyo

Monroyo, Matarraña, Teruel

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Monroyo

Village · Monroyo, Matarraña, Teruel

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.

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