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Data of the Town |
Torrevelilla |
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Town |
Torrevelilla |
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Municipality |
Torrevelilla / Region: Under Aragon |
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Province |
Teruel |
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Community |
Aragon |
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Habt. / Ine 2004 |
204 |
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Town hall |
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Direction |
Square of Spain, 1 |
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ZIP code |
44641 |
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Phone |
978852075 |
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Fax |
978852075 |
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Office Tourism |
978852252 |
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Official web |
Torrevelilla |
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Web of Interest |
Torrevelilla information |
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E-mail municipality |
torrevelilla@deter uel.es |
One can gain access to Torrevelilla from most of Towns of the Low Aragon, for heart of this region is nailed in . The trip for regional highways and local it becomes agreeable, and light for the beauty of the contrasts landscape.
His economy is based on the cattle and different cultivation, like almond trees, cereals and especially, olive trees, with which one prepares good Olive oil protected by Denomination of Origin. Also, the area is rich in aromatic and medicinal plants, emphasizing thyme, rosemary, lavender and you of rock, between others.
The tradition admits like origin of the place name the existence of one primitive nucleus of population consisting of the “Torre ” or ranch of the Velilla, which would be the first owners. Soon it happened to to depend on the Order of Calatrava, in which there continued even it dissolution of the stately diet. In the XVIIth century it managed of Felipe III of Aragon (IV of Castile) a privilege to have stove and mill independent from Castelserás. In 1770, it received the title of “villa ”, that was effective from February 2, 1771. Then it stopped his dependency of Castelserás, joined to which had dismembered of Alcañiz in 1750. Nevertheless, until 1812, which incorporates his Council into the general diet of the nation, not he will have full proper jurisdiction.
The local Torrevelilla history does not initiate, then, with statute of his municipal autonomy, but it begins at the end of XVI - beginning of the XVIIth.
Inside the city center it is necessary to emphasize the visit to the San chapel Joaquín in a short and nice walk next to sowed fields of almond trees, and the visit to the explanatory center museum of the house of Mrs Pilgrim Vallés.
it presents a marvelous natural heritage, which we can approach across the multitude of footpaths PR that cover his places. In the surroundings he stands out "piló of the saw ”, magnificent lookout from that we can contemplate the basin of the Mezquín. Also there stand out some monumental trees, like the pine of three tormos and the holm oak of the Coscollar. (ftes and text to see links)
