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The Market Hall of Ares del Maestrat

Ares del Maestrat, L'Alt Maestrat, Castellón

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The Market Hall of Ares del Maestrat

Monument · Ares del Maestrat, L'Alt Maestrat, Castellón

Image of Ares del Maestrat, not of the place itself.

El Perxe de Ares del Maestrat, also called the Llotja or the town hall, is a building with Gothic arcades and Mudéjar elements located next to the Plaza Mayor, listed as a Bien Inmueble de Relevancia Local (a local-heritage listed building in Spain). According to the architect Enric Llop, it was built between 1295 and 1318 on an Arab fort destroyed in 1232, and the hall was raised from 1318 as the Chapter Hall of the Order of the Temple, later passing to the Order of Montesa. After successive armed conflicts it was rebuilt and turned into the seat of the town hall in 1786, when the arch linking it to the Plaza de la Iglesia through the town wall was opened. During the Middle Ages it held the weekly market, and in the 19th century it even housed a butcher's shop, remains of which are still preserved.

Photo: Manel Zaera (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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