ZARAGOZA
PAU
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Sephardi
Routes
OFFICES OF TOURISM
ZARAGOZA
BARCELONA
MADRID
VALENCIA
El Bajo Aragón
Caspe
C/ Zaragoza, Pza. España
T. 976 636 533
[email protected] www.caspe.es
Jaca, Francia
Pamplona
Ruesta
Sos del Rey
Católico
Castiliscar
Sádaba
Navardún
Comarca Bajo Aragón - Caspe
Pza. Compromiso 8-9.
T. 976 639 027
[email protected]
www.comarcabajoaragoncaspe.com
Luesia Biel
Uncastillo
El Frago
Luna
Ejea de los
Caballeros
Logroño, Bilbao
Tarazona
Trasmoz
Erla
Huesca , Francia
Calatayud and its surroundings
Zuera
Tauste
Mallén
Gallur
Borja
Magallón
Añón
Calatayud
Plaza del Fuerte, s/n
T. 976 886 322
[email protected]
www.calatayud.es
Utebo
Épila
ZARAGOZA
Soria
Illueca
Ricla
Fuentes
Muel
Cetina
Jaraba
Alhama
de Aragón
Gelsa
Mequinenza
ro
Ariza
Eb
Madrid
Mediana
La Almunia
Almonacid
Fuendetodos
Calatayud
Cariñena
Aguarón
Belchite
o
Villarroya
de la Sierra
Fraga, Barcelona
Bujalaroz
Rí
The origins of a Hebrew presence go back to the Lower Roman Empire and
to the Visigoth period. Aragon had been a melting pot of people and
beliefssince becoming a Kingdom in the XI century, consolidating a multifaith structure protected byprovincial law, which allowed a pragmatic
coexistence of Three Religions –Jews, Christians and Muslims– through the
Middle Ages.
In this context, Zaragoza Sephardi, a project promoted by the Councilof
Zaragoza, aspires to safeguard, promote and disseminate both spiritual and
material Jewish legacy through scientific rigor. With this aim there are three
fields to intervene in: a) cultural: to recover the memory and heritage of Jews
culture as an identity key for common history of Jews and the Aragonese
people; b) ethical: to favor the reunion of the Sephardic communities and
rescue the values of a multi -ethnical and multi - faith coexistence, in the
context of a multicultural Europe; c) territorial development: promoting cultural
tourism and material heritage.
With regard to this last area, the activity is aimed to vary and
complementary directions such as a comprehensive re-discovering of its old
quarters –which could constitute, in a medium and long term projection,
together with Romanesque and Mudejar styles, one of the major attractions
in Aragon– and its proper value; to create interpretation spaces, among
them those already finished or being carried out such as the ones in
Tarazona, Ejea, El Frago o Uncastillo, to be added a dozen more located in
other localities in a study and planning phase; to publish specific guides
about the Jews Heritage in every to town., etc.
In order to bring all this evocative heritage closer, four great routes: Cinco
Villas. Survivors of the Jews Heritage; The Moncayo. The route of the Mudejar
and Moshe of Portella; Hebrew Mark in the Jalón and Jiloca areas. Calatayud,
Daroca and the Lower Aragon Jewish quarters. Bailia de Caspe and the
Talmud route.
Finally, we should draw attention to the fact that one of the most outstanding
landmarks of the project was the exhibition, titled Hebraica Aragonalia. The
Jews legacy in Aragon, housed at the Sástago Palace in 2002, being one of the
most visited among those held in this Renaissance building, and a singular
opportunity for the Aragonese people to rediscover a shared past.
Daroca
Plaza de España, 4
T. 976 80 01 29
[email protected]
www.daroca.es
Sástago
Caspe
Lécera
Nonaspe
Daroca
Alcañiz, Castellón
Maella
Teruel, Valencia
Campo de Daroca
Mayor, 44
T. 976 800 193
[email protected]
Regional Tourismo Board
Diputación de Zaragoza
Pza. de España, 2
50071 Zaragoza
Tel. 00 34 976 212 032
Fax 00 34 976 232 611
E-mail: [email protected]
www.zaragozalaprovincia.es
Las Cinco Villas
Uncastillo
C/ Ramón y Cajal 2A
T. 976 676 716
[email protected]
www.uncastillo.es
www.zaragozasefarad.es
Sos del Rey Católico
Pza. de la Hispanidad,1 (Palacio de Sada)
T. 948 888 524
[email protected]
www.sosdelreycatolico.com
Ejea de los Caballeros
Paseo del Muro no 2
T. 976 664 100
[email protected]
www.ejea.es
Tauste
(open in summer)
Pza. España 1
T. 976 854 950
www.tauste.es
El Moncayo
Borja
Plaza de España, 1
T. 976 852 001
[email protected]
www.borja.es
Tarazona
Pza. San Francisco, 1
T. 976 199 076 y 976 640 074
[email protected]
www.tarazona.es
Lower Aragón
Calatayud and its surroundings
Cinco Villas
Moncayo
Bailia de Caspe and the Talmud Route
Hebrew traces in the Jalón and Jiloca areas. Calatayud, Daroca
A Medieval Survivor of a Jewish Heritage
The mudejar route and Moshé de Portella
RUESTA
ÉPILA
N-232
Ebro
Quinto
N-234
SORIA
BELCHITE
Sástago
Ja
Morata
de Jalón
lón
CALATAYUD El Frasno
CASPE
Escatrón
RICLA
Illueca
Villarroya
de la Sierra
Ateca
Híjar
MAELLA
Alhama
Cetina de Aragón
N-211
AGUARÓN CARIÑENA
Paniza
Sádaba
EJEA DE LOS
CABALLEROS
Riglos
A-23
A-132
LUNA
Calatayud –on which Ariza, Ricla and Cetina were dependent– was the second Jewish
quarter in importanceof the Kingdom, exceeding one thousand inhabitants. The
Jewish quarter is placed around the castle of Don Alvaro or Doña Martina (vulgarly
known as the castle of the Jewish quarter), closing the precincts which use to link
the Torre Mocha (Consolación) defensive complex with the Peña. In previous times
a main entrance started in San Andrés square to end at the Santa Ana slope. Calatayud
used to have seven synagogues and chapels. Among which, the main synagogue
stands out, enlarged and improved in 1380 after the war with Castile, from which the
two lancet arch entrance doors remain ; nowadays the Consolación hermitage.
The Jewish quarter of Daroca is inspired by a spatial Islamic model. Its two essential
axis are traced along the Barrio Nuevo and Yosef Albó streets. In the Barrio Nuevo
square, the guilds, hospital and the synagogue are concentrated, the last one placed
in Torre de la Sisa, the Hospitalillo and the wall vicinity. Although the community
disappeared in 1415, as a result of the Tortosa Dispute, it was restored in 1458 during
the reign of Juan II, setting up as a perimeter the San Pedro church square, the Main
Castle, the wall and the main street. Among Calatayuds' most famous sons the rabbi
and philosopher Yosef Albó and Master Luis de Santángel stand out.
La Virgen BORJA
N-122
Almudévar
TAUSTE
Fréscano
Grisel
Ayerbe
Huesca
DAROCA
El Buste
A-23
EL FRAGO
a
Towards the eastern limits of the province of Zaragoza, and extending towards the Teruel
lands, a fertile area of thinking can be traced. A big deal of these communities (Belchite,
Montalbán, Alcañiz e Híjar –famous for the Eliezer ben Alantansi printing press (148788) one of the pioneers in Sepharad–), with the possible exception of Caspe, all of them
appeared thanks to Royal award in favor of Military Orders and domains.
Caspe, together with Maella, La Fresneda, Mazaleón and Castellote, was affiliated
to the “collecta” or fiscal district of Alcañiz, an important center of Talmudic studies
and hometown of the famous Talmudist Yeoshua' ha-Lurqui. Its Jewish urban framework
is articulated around the Barrio Verde streets and San Indalecio square - the synagogue
used to stand on the site of the homonym hermitage-, next to a dense reed bed area.
In the Rabel canton some buildings maintaining the internal structure of a traditional
housing of the period are preserved.
The Jewish quarter of Belchite was situated around the San Martin church and the
castle, which was the original village center, meanwhile the Moorish quarter took shape
around the San Salvador square. Its community with a strong commercial and money
lending profile reached one hundred people, which meant around 7% of the population.
NAVARRA
MALLÉN
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A-132
BIEL
UNCASTILLO
NAVARRA
Vierlas
TARAZONA
oc
Jaraba
Alcañiz
CASTILISCAR
ALMONACID
Maluenda
LUESIA
Jil
Albalate
del Arzobispo
Samper
de Calanda
Novallas
Sabiñánigo
SOS DEL REY CATÓLICO
LA ALMUNIA
A-2
ARIZA
Lécera
La Muela
E-7
The first Jewish migratory stream dates from the XI and XII centuries, increasing as the
Reconquista advanced. At the end of the XIII century, in a climate of economic expansion,
the initial settlements were transformed into Jewish quarters provided with self-government.
In the Low Middle Ages they reached one thousand inhabitants.
The Jewish quarter takes as its reference the castle or the church, placed inside the walls
and high terrain as Ruesta (near the dungeon), Luna (Puyfranco street), Biel (Barrio Verde
street de and Capdevilla square), Uncastillo and Luesia (Barrionuevo street), El Frago (Infantes
and San Nicolás streets), Sos del Rey Católico (Sartén square and Luna and Mentidero streets),
Ejea de los Caballeros (the Corona quarter) and Tauste ( Pedro IV and San Bartolomé streets).
The construction materials alternate between brick and rough stone in the southern
area, meanwhile in the northern area masonry predominates. The streets, which articulate
around a central axis or Main Street, show a maze structure. Some synagogues, after the
expulsion of the Jewish, were transformed into council buildings (Biel and Uncastillo) or
hermitages (Luesia).
In Uncastillo Hebrew epitaphs on tombs have been preserved (rabbi Meir) and in El
Frago (rabbi Yom Tob, rabbi Hayyim, Ester and Orovida), being either the originals or
reproductions. The last example cited are to be found in the in the Word Interpretation Centre
“Rabbi Yom Tob”.
Vera de
Lituénigo
Trasmoz Moncayo
Litago
Monasterio
de Veruela
Bulbuente
Maleján
Agón
Bisimbre
MAGALLÓN
Albeta
Ainzón Bureta Alberite de
San Juan
Ambel
The Jewish community of Borja lived in El Cinto quarter, in which a hundred families
resided and whose access was through the Portaza (large gate) and the San Pedro slope.
In the surroundings of the fort an exceptional graffiti was found, on which appears the
Moseh al-Xibili place of Sevillian origins is there.
Under the protection of the San Lorenzo church, dated in XIV, the community lived
in the Magallón within the remains of the ancient castle. From 1415 the Jewish quarter is
placed between the San Miguel and the Calentejo quarters. Its synagogue had a hospital
attached, to attend a population of nearly one hundred people.
Mallén started in the first decade of the XV century, under the impulse of the Order
of Hospitallers. It houses a quarter called sinoga, to which one could access through the
Falcón gate, covering the Cristo, Juan Navarro and La Cruz streets.
Tarazona has two sectors: the old Jewish quarter, and its later extension: the new
Jewish quarter. The original community was settled at the foot of the Zuda, where the
streets of Aires, Juderia, Rúa Alta, Rúa Baja and the Arcedianos square are situated at
present. The new Jewish quarter developed around 1440, extending along the Arcedianos
slope to the Nuestra Señora square and closing at the Santa Ana Arch level. From the year
2000 it belongs to the Spanish Jewish quarter National Network.