Urrea de Gaén

Teruel · Aragón

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Urrea de Gaén is a municipality located in the province of Teruel, community of Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 568 inhabitants. Located in the Lower Martin river area, in the Ebro basin, at the left bank of the Martin river, at 308 meters of elevation. It lies 160 km away from Teruel, the province capital, and 75 km away from Zaragoza, capital of the community.

Origins

El nombre del pueblo proviene de Urrea, que es el nombre de una familia cristiana (señores de Urrea), según aparece documentado desde el siglo XII, y de Gaén (Zaén o Zahén que quiere decir emir).

History

Urrea de Gaén has known human settlement at least since the Chalcolithic period (2100 BC), as evidenced by ruins and remains discovered in numerous excavations. It was inhabited by tribes of Iberian sedentanos. Later there was the Roman occupation with a wide network of agricultural settlements (fundus) in the form of villas.

A long Muslim occupation and residence (from the eighth century to 1610) left its mark in the local architecture in the Moorish styling of the village. The area was occupied by the Aragonese from the twelfth century, at the time of Ramon Berenguer IV and Petronila, becoming part of the Aragon defensive system. After multiple marriages, lawsuits and swaps, in 1268 King James I created the Lordship of Híjar for his natural son Pedro Fernandez de Hijar. Thereafter the town was always under the dominicatura of Híjar's house, until the abolition of the old regime, well into the nineteenth century.

Monuments

Villa romana de la Loma del Regadío.

Pueblo íbero.

Pozo de Las Planas.

Molino.

El Azud.

Casa consistorial, siglo XVIII.

Iglesia de San Pedro Mártir, siglo XVIII.

Arco de San Roque, siglo XVII.

Ermita de Santa Bárbara, siglo XVIII.

Arco de la Virgen de Arcos, siglo XVIII.

Museo del Juguete.

What to visit

•Sala de Exposiciones de la Peanas de la Semana Santa de Híjar

•Museo de La Ruta del Tambor y Bombo

Gallery

Festivals

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Festivals this month

No festivals recorded this month.

Rest of the year

August: Fiestas Mayores (15)

Trails and hiking

•Ruta de las Lastras de San José (PR-TE 97)

Famous people

•Pedro Laín Entralgo, médico e historiador de la medicina español

•Santiago Mina, futbolista español nacido en 1958

•Juan Cabañero y Esponera, militar español

•José Laín Entralgo, escritor español

•Jacinto Serrano López, sacerdote católico español

Town hall

Web oficial: http://www.urreadegaen.es/

Town hall of Urrea de Gaén

Web oficial: http://www.urreadegaen.es/

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