Festivities of Alcalá de Moncayo Activity · Alcalá de Moncayo, Tarazona y el Moncayo, Zaragoza Image of Alcalá de Moncayo, not of the place itself. Alcalá de Moncayo, whose name comes from the Arabic al-qalat (the castle), received its settlement charter in 1238 from Jaime I. It preserves remains of the wall and the medieval castle, and its 16th-century church of the Asunción has a Mudéjar tower. Photo: Eloy Cotallo (Public domain) What to see and do in Alcalá de Moncayo