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  Teruel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Teruel (Aragonese: Tergüel) is a city in Aragon, Spain, the capital of the province of the same name.
Despite the lack of highways into and from Teruel there is now a large highway in construction passing close to the town.
Teruel is a beautiful town in an old style part of spain, it has a famous cathedral in the Mudéjar style.
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 Teruel - Places - CAI Tourism of Aragon
The church of la Merced was the last example of Mudéjar architecture to be built in Teruel and dates from the 16th century.
The church of los Franciscanos provides an excellent contrast with the large number of Mudéjar buildings in Teruel as it is a splendid example of gothic architecture.
As you walk through Teruel, the twisting streets and alleyways, reminders of the city’s medieval past, will lead you to the most important public and commercial areas like the Plaza del Torico and the Plaza de San Juan.
www.caiaragon.com /en/municipios/index.asp?idloc=450&tipo=0   (888 words)

  
 TERUEL PARADOR
The parador in Teruel is just on the outskirts of the town, (careful not to miss the turning as you drive away from the town.
Teruel Parador is an attracitve modern building inspired by mudejar arquitecture - a style introduced by the Moors during their occupation of Spain which is characteristic of this region and, especially, Teruel.
Teruel is an interesting town with some lovely buildings, but the real jewel of this Spanish province is the village of Albarracín, just 20 km away.
fotos.euroresidentes.com /spain/spanish_paradors/parador_teruel.htm   (235 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Diocese of Teruel
All the churches of Teruel are contemporary with its foundation, as the founders built nine churches, one, Santa Maria de Media Villa, in the centre, and the remaining eight in a circle following the circuit of the walls.
Pierre de Bedel, builder of the Arcos de Teruel (Aqueduct) and of the Mina de Daroca, repaired its foundations from 1549 to 1551.
Among the distinguished citizens of Teruel must be mentioned Jerónimo Ripalda, S.J.; the jurisconsult Gaspar de Castellot; Miguel Jerónimo de Castellot, judge of the courts of Aragon, 1665; Fray Juan Cebrian de Perales, Bishop of Albarracin, and Juan Martínez Salafranca, Viceroy of Aragon, founder of the Academy of History.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14525a.htm   (744 words)

  
 Teruel (province) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Teruel (province)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The economy is based mainly on sheep-rearing; other products include cereal, fruit, olive oil, and wine, and there are iron and lignite deposits.
Teruel is the scene of the English author George Orwell's experience of fighting with the Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), recorded in Homage to Catalonia (1938).
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Teruel+(province)   (160 words)

  
 Pyrenees Guide .com - teruel walk, aragon guide
Teruel is often called the city of love (population 29.320), enveloped in the legend of the Romeo and Juliet style lovers, Diego and Isabel, whose spirits live amidst the Mudejar towers.
Perched on a tall column in the centre of the square surrounded by the Modernist-style houses is a small sculpture of a bull with a star, both symbols of Teruel city.
During the Spanish Civil War, Teruel was captured by the Republicans on December 1937 and, fearing a counter-assault by the Nationalists, fighters from the International Brigades moved from Madrid to take up defensive positions in the surrounding Sierra Palomera where, despite night time temperatures of -20C, they withstood continual air attacks from German Condor Legion.
www.pyreneesguide.com /articles.asp?cID=56&sID=394&aID=1344   (687 words)

  
 Aragon Guide .com - Teruel
The province of Teruel, in the south of Aragon, is home to most of the Sistema Iberico mountain range area.
Teruel is also a storehouse of some of the best Mudejar architecture you will find anywhere, and nearby Albarracin is a medieval treat.
The mountains of El Maestrazgo, northeast of Teruel, are an area of great variety and striking, often wild, beauty, with their severe peaks, deep gorges and lush meadows.
www.aragonguide.com /cats.asp?cID=66   (148 words)

  
 Aragon Guide .com - Teruel Walks
Jewish Route in Southern Aragon - Caspe —where the tradition assures that the Jewry was located in the street Barrio Verde—, together with Maella, la Fresneda, Mazaleón, and Castellote, integrated in the collecta of Alcaniz, born in 1304 thanks to a privilege given by Jaime II to the Calatrava Order.
Teruel walk, Aragon Guide - Teruel is often called the city of love (population 29.320), enveloped in the legend of the Romeo and Juliet style lovers, Diego and Isabel, whose spirits live amidst the Mudejar towers.
Sierras of Teruel Route, Aragon - Albarracin (Bronchales, Orihuela), Teruel (Cella, Puebla de Valverde), Mora de Rubielos (Rubielos de Mora, Alcala de la Selva, Valdelinares), Cantavieja (Iglesuela del Cid, Villarluengo, Mirambel).Area: The southernmost area of Aragon.
www.aragonguide.com /subs.asp?sID=449&cID=69   (164 words)

  
 Teruel - Be enchanted by one of Spain's remotest regions
Teruel - Be enchanted by one of Spain's remotest regions
WHY GO Outside the extremes of winter and summer, the wild, sparsely populated district of Teruel can be mesmerising.
In May, the mountains are dotted with gorse and apple blossom and the fields are a sea of poppies.
www.cntraveller.com /Guides/Spain/Teruel   (222 words)

  
 Teruel
Franco had held Teruel for three years, a vulnerable line towards the coast, and when the Republicans recaptured it that Christmas it was thought that fortune had changed at last, that the days of retreat were over.
The loss of Teruel was an episode of the war brought about by the enormous quantity of arms and men sent to the assistance of Franco by Italy and Germany.
The capture of Teruel by the Government forces in December, 1937, was almost the only great action in which the 'English' could have taken part but were not called upon to do so.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SPteruel.htm   (1506 words)

  
 Teruel on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Teruel sorprende a los visitantes por la riqueza de su patrimonio.
In December 1937 Ernest Hemingway was covering the Loyalist assault on Teruel, the walled town in the bleak mountains of South (PAR168470)
In December 1937 Ernest Hemingway was covering the Loyalist assault on Teruel, the walled town in the bleak mountains of Southern Aragon, Gen Franco was planning to use this corridor route to the
www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Teruel.asp   (1109 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Teruel, Spain & Portugal (Spanish And Portuguese Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
28,488), capital of Teruel prov., E central Spain, in AragOn, at the confluence of the Guadalaviar and Alfambra rivers.
The city is an agricultural trade center; the province has iron and coal mines and sulfur, zinc, and manganese deposits.
The "lovers of Teruel" (13th cent.) are buried in the San Pedro cloisters.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Teruel.html   (198 words)

  
 Teruel, Spain
A town of Iberian origin (Turba), it was devastated by the Romans in 215 B.C. Long after the Reconquista it retained its Moorish inhabitants, who enjoyed special rights and were able to develop freely, losing their last mosque as late as 1502.
Teruel also had a large Jewish community, who lived in peaceful coexistence with Christians and Moors until a pogrom in 1486 which ended the concord between the different religions and initiated the town's decline.
During the Spanish Civil War Teruel was the scene of a decisive battle (Dec. 1937 to Feb. 1938) which caused great destruction in the town.
www.planetware.com /spain/teruel-e-ar-ter.htm   (132 words)

  
 Appendix B, Cuenca-Teruel Fueros, Society Organized for War
The case for geographic determinism of the sources of the law is strengthen by the situation of Alfonso II (Alfons I) in his Crown of Aragon, by this time a federated combination of the Kingdom of Aragon and the County of Barcelona, to which the County of Provence was added in 1176.
For his upland Aragonese realm long attached to the elaborating legal traditions of the Cordillera, the Fuero of Teruel with its rich cattle law and its booty-hungry militia provisions was as natural to Alfonso II's needs and municipal capabilities as Cuenca's charter was for the Cordilleran realms of Alfonso VIII in Castile.
On the other hand, Teruel, conquered in 1171, was for a long period a salient in Muslim lands, and nearby Albarracín could not be permanently taken until 1220.
libro.uca.edu /socwar/appdxb.htm   (7371 words)

  
 La Cucaracha Spanish Civil War Diary December 1937
The province capital Teruel, since the beginning of the war occupied by Fascist forces, was till now aside the fighting's.
The fighting's near Teruel turn out to be a massive strike by the government to free the province capital city Teruel from the Fascists.
The offensive at Teruel achieved it main goals: Franco had to cancel his offensive at Madrid, and the world could see, that the Spanish government is far away from being beaten.
recollectionbooks.com /bleed/images/spain/december.html   (950 words)

  
 JewishEncyclopedia.com - TERUEL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Jews of Teruel had a statute according to which a document was legal only if it had been drawn up by the communal secretary and bore his seal.
About 1385 a delator ("malsin") appeared at Teruel; and the community asked Isaac b.
Other prominent Jews living in Teruel were the scholarly Judah ben David, whom Isaac b.
www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=160&letter=T   (183 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Teruel at Epinions.com
The Ham of Teruel is world reknown as the best...
Teruel is not a favoured place for tourists or your typical Spanish weekend tourist.
Teruel is the cheapest and one of the smallest provincial capitals in Spain.
www.epinions.com /trvl-Dest-Europe-Spain-Teruel/display_~reviews   (237 words)

  
 Spain - Paradores - Parador de Teruel
Their tombs are side by side in the church of San Pedro and their skeletons can be seen through grills in the mausoleum.
In Teruel, the festival of la Vaquilla is held in July and, by tradition, a bull is always present.
The festival of the Ham is held in September.
www.paradores-spain.com /spain/pteruel.html   (563 words)

  
 Medieval Sourcebook: Jews and Christians in Teruel: The Fuero of Teruel, 1176
Jews and Christians in Teruel: The Fuero of Teruel, 1176 CE The Fuero of Teruel was an urban charter granted to the city of Teruel in 1176 by Alfonso II of Aragon.
It and the roughly contemporary and very similar Fuero of Cuenca were much copied and thus had an impact far beyond the bounds of a single city.
And if it should happen that their judgment does not please either of the two disputants, it shall be appealed to four judges who are citizens of Teruel, of whom two shall be Christians and the other two shall be Jews, and the case shall finish with those four judges, according to the law.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/1276teruel.html   (932 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: teruel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
V Certamen Internacional de Fotografía “Villa de Andorra-Caja Rural de Teruel” April 16th, 2006 El Ayuntamiento de Andorra (Teruel), el Centro de...
Bezas (Teruel) En: Teruel, Bezas - Jorge Orte @ 7:25 pm Jorge Orte Tudela 2005.
Estoy en Teruel en el II Foro de Ciudades Digitales.
www.technorati.com /tag/teruel   (493 words)

  
 Mary N. Teruel
The key parameters that define the dynamic properties of cellular signaling networks need to be measured at the single cell level, and in many cases, large cell numbers of single cell recordings are required to obtain the necessary statistics to analyze the temporal response patterns.
Oancea, E., Teruel, M.N., Quest, A.F.G., and Meyer, T. GFP-tagged cysteine-rich domains from protein kinase C as fluorescent indicators for diacylglycerol signaling in living cells.
Teruel, M.N. An experimental and computational study of the flow in the endwall region of a turbine cascade passage.
www.stanford.edu /~teruel1   (849 words)

  
 Pyrenees Guide .com - sierras of teruel route aragon
Javalambre is a massif with the highest peak in the province of Teruel (2,020 meters) and flora of scientific interest.
In some festivities, bulls are tied with a rope for control, and in others, they run freely through the streets with balls of fire on the tips of their horns.
In Teruel, the Fiestas del Angel or La Vaquilla during July and de Ham Festivals in September.
www.pyreneesguide.com /articles.asp?cID=56&sID=333&aID=1348   (523 words)

  
 Hotel Teruel, HotelSearch.com. Hotels Teruel, Book your hotel in Teruel, Hotels in Teruel, Spain Hotel, Spain hotels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In spite of its stunning natural beauty, this Aragonese province is one of the least known in Spain.
Without a doubt, in Teruel you will find important historic monuments such as the cathedral, the Portal de la Traición and the aqueduct, el Acueducto de los Arcos.
A good time to visit Teruel is February 14, when you can see the fairy-tale-like festival commemorating lovers in Teruel.
www.hotelsearch.com /1/province/teruel.html   (110 words)

  
 Teruel Valencia, Spain
Teruel is located along the N234 highway between Soria and Valencia and borders the RioTuria.
Teruel is easy to get around by foot and most sights are within easy walking distance of each other.
Most buildings have an historic background but are in poor condition.
www.idealspain.com /Pages/Places/teruel.asp   (119 words)

  
 Paradors in Teruel (Spain) , Reserve your parador in Teruel (Spain)
Enjoy a parador or follow a route with various paradors and you will discover why they have the prestige they hold and why some of them are considered to be amongst the best hotels in the world.
Sagunto - Burgos, 234 - Teruel - Teruel - Spain
GENERAL The Parador is located at 2 kms from the nerve center of the city, from the splendid Mu...
destinia.com /hotels/paradores/paradors-in-teruel/spain/europe/31433/en   (183 words)

  
 Hotel accommodation in Teruel and province , Spain.
The Parador de Alcaniz - Teruel Prov is built on the hilltop called the Cumbre de Cerro Pui-Pinos.
The Hotel Suites Camarena, located in a newly constructed building, has a cafeteria, private parking and facilities for the physically disabled.
Located on the outskirts of historical Teruel, it perfectly expresses the mixture of cultures and styles of this interesting monumental city, which conceals some of the most representative buildings of Mudejar art.
www.123casa.com /teruel/teruel.htm   (207 words)

  
 Iberian ruins at Calaceite (Teruel province, Spain) - Multimedia - MSN Encarta
Iberian ruins at Calaceite (Teruel province, Spain) - Multimedia - MSN Encarta
The ancient Iberian people established numerous settlements in the modern-day Spanish province of Teruel during the last few centuries BC and the 1st century AD.
Archaeological remains of an Iberian settlement on the San Antonio hill, near Calaceite, are pictured here.
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 Teruel travel guide - Travel reviews on Teruel, Spain
Teruel is a city and a province in southern Aragón.
Until fairly recently it was not visited by many tourists, although it is probably the very best place in Spain to see Mudejar architecture at its most exquisite.
The two towers of El Salvador and San Martín are superb, as is the ceiling of the Cathedral and the interior decoration of San Pedro, which is the mausoleum for the Amantes [Lovers] of Teruel.
www.globosapiens.net /spain-travel/Teruel   (181 words)

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