Village
The Roman mausoleum of Fabara, from the 2nd century and dedicated to Lucio Emilio Lupo, is quite possibly the best-preserved monument of its kind in the whole Iberian Peninsula, in the shape of a small tetrastyle temple of the Tuscan order; declared a monumento nacional (a former Spanish heritage-protection category) in 1931, it is known as caseta dels moros. Fabara, with 1,063 inhabitants (INE 2025), forms part of the Franja Oriental de Aragón, a Catalan-speaking area of Zaragoza, and preserves the Roquizal del Rullo, the most important Iron Age site in Aragon. Also notable is the church of San Juan Bautista, Levantine Gothic from the 13th-14th centuries, with a defensive appearance featuring battlements and a portal with three archivolts. The village also preserves the ruins of the Monasterio de la Trapa and a museum devoted to the painter Virgilio Albiac (1912-2011).
Monument
Roman mausoleum located on the left bank of the Matarraña river, near the town of Fabara (Zaragoza), popularly known as the Caseta dels Moros. It is a 2nd-century construction, considered the best-preserved monument of its kind in the whole Peninsula, shaped like a small four-columned temple dedicated to Lucio Emilio Lupo. It stands in an area with a high density of rural Roman remains, with several nearby sites and villas. It went almost unnoticed by scholars until 1874, when its existence was reported to the Royal Academy of History; it was privately owned, declared a monumento histórico-artístico (Spain's highest level of heritage protection before the creation of the Bien de Interés Cultural) in 1931, until the State acquired it in 1942. It is well preserved.
Monument
Remains of an old monastery located between Fabara and Maella (Zaragoza), in the Bajo Aragón-Caspe comarca, of which only the ruins of the church, the tower and a Gothic nave still stand today. Founded in the 6th century by Benedictine monks, it was rebuilt by the Order of Calatrava and granted in 1227 by James I of Aragon to the Cistercian order. Its best-known period began in 1796, when Charles IV handed the building over to a community of French Trappist monks, who came to number around ninety; shortly afterwards, French troops looted it after burning down the castle of Maella, and in 1835 it was expropriated in the disentailment, although the last Trappists did not leave until 1837. The large complex had six dormitories, a library, a refectory, a cloister with a central well, and a tower with two bells and a clock; the high altar of its church was dedicated to Our Lady of la Trapa.
Monument
Museum devoted to the painter Virgilio Albiac (Fabara, 1912 - Zaragoza, 2011), a watercolourist trained at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in Valencia and professor at the Escuela de Arte in Zaragoza. It brings together 38 works donated by the artist himself, which combined landscape and abstraction.
Nature
Final stretch of the river Matarraña, a right-bank tributary of the Ebro, next to the Roman mausoleum of Fabara. It rises at the Parrizal, in the Puertos de Beceite, at about 1,200 metres above sea level, and runs 97 kilometres from south to north, between the provinces of Teruel and Zaragoza, before flowing into the Ribarroja reservoir, where it briefly marks the boundary between Tarragona and Zaragoza. With an irregular Mediterranean regime, with floods in spring and autumn and low water in summer, it carries an average flow of 6.51 m³/s. Its basin is considered one of the best-preserved Mediterranean rivers, with populations of native crayfish, barbel, boga and trout, now threatened by pollution.
Activity
Patron saint festivities of Fabara in honour of San Roque and la Asunción, in August. In early March the town also celebrates the fiesta de quintos, with a characteristic bonfire, and during Holy Week it takes part in the Bajo Aragón tradition of the drum and the bass drum.
Curiosity
Comarca where Spanish, native to Caspe and Chiprana, coexists with Catalan, the language of Fabara, Fayón, Maella and Nonaspe, municipalities in the Matarraña basin that belong to the linguistic area known as the Franja de Aragón.
Curiosity
The traditional cultivation of almond and olive trees on the dry farmland of Fabara.
Monument
Fortified church in Gothic style built in the 15th century as a modification of an earlier Romanesque church, already mentioned at the end of the 12th century, shortly after Fabara was reconquered in 1157 by Ramón Berenguer IV; some 13th-century wall from that older structure is still preserved. It has a single nave of three bays with side chapels between the buttresses, a raised choir at the foot and a square-plan tower on the side opposite the door, open to the south with three archivolts. The whole building is topped with battlements, giving it the appearance of a fortress. It suffered serious damage during the Civil War, which required its restoration in the post-war period, and in 1977 a storm destroyed the sacred heart that topped the tower.
Monument
The town hall of Fabara, in the comarca of Bajo Aragón-Caspe (Zaragoza), is the seat of the municipality's town council. The building was raised on part of the old palace of the Princess of Belmonte, reusing part of its original masonry.
Monument
Historic bridge over the River Matarraña in Fabara.
Nature
The landscape of almond trees in blossom on the dry farmland of Fabara, in early spring.
Monument
The old town of Fabara preserves the municipality's historic layout, next to the Roman mausoleum and the ruins of the Monastery of la Trapa. Within it stands the parish church of San Juan Bautista, built in the first half of the 14th century in Levantine Gothic style over an earlier Romanesque temple, and the town hall, raised on part of the old palace of the Princess of Belmonte.
Food and drink
Protected geographical indication covering wines made in the areas of the lower Ebro and lower Aragon. On limestone soils and with very dry summers, grenache, tempranillo, syrah and macabeo are grown, producing wines of high alcohol content. Regulated in 2006, the indication covers dozens of municipalities in the provinces of Teruel and Zaragoza, including Fabara, and allows whites with a minimum natural alcohol content of 11º, rosés of 11.5º and reds of 12º. Among the white varieties are also chardonnay and grenache blanc, and among the reds, mazuela, cabernet sauvignon and merlot.