At 10:30 am this Saturday, March 20, 2010, appointment time we shook the door of San Miquel de Morella all participants in this second edition of the KDD in the Land of No organized by Foroware, Outdoors & Technology, to start the tour tour of the city.
before and had some time to start heating machinery Geocaching visiting the cache enabled on the nearby public parking meeting point. Specifically
was also our guide, Josephine, with which we had occasion to share an interesting morning enjoying his explanations, historical and artistic about the most interesting parts of the city, which in turn helped us to go revealing the multi-cache to bring it up for the occasion.
The first of these concerns is the wall and the Gate of San Miguel, consisting of two towers, octagonal outside and inside runs. The towers are topped by battlements and are linked by a causeway of stone ashlar forming an arch. The gateway is formed by a pointed arch. At its front are various matacanes for defense. Built in 1360 (XIV century) are the best known and most monumental and almost forced to step into the city.
so it should be noted the excellent state of preservation of the wall that marks the site of the city in almost all. Morella is a city that has remained throughout history always been confined to its walls, and even in periods of expansion, growth has developed extensions to the walled town while maintaining the intra-muros.
The second stop helped us to know the Church of Miguel, a few meters from the door of the same name, currently XVII century building restored and converted surprisingly today in the Health Center.
well into the population center, we stopped at the building of City Hall. The City Hall, built in the XIV century, looks majestic in the center of Morella. The construction includes such interesting and attractive places such as La Lonja, the Gothic halls of the Consell and the Court of Justice. The City Council Morella has witnessed notable historical events, and has the Europa Nostra award for architectural heritage recovery. In addition, its impressive rooms are permanent stage art exhibitions, cultural events, conferences and other events.
During our visit we had the opportunity to visit the interior hallway and we could find a nice example of the art of giants and carnival figures, deeply rooted in Morella.
Following our visit we now come to the Calle de Don Blasco de Alagon. This is a colonnaded street of great beauty and identity retains its medieval character.
At the end of Calle de Don Blasco de Alagon can find one of the most impressive mansions in the city, the Palacio del Cardenal Ram, now restored as a hotel. We are amazed by its roof, topped with an impressive wood paneling exquisitely worked, of Neapolitan influence.
Continuing our tour, we stopped now with another manor house, La Casa Rovira, which hosted the famous scholar blessed and San Vicente Ferrer, to attend the famous meeting of the three crowned heads, a Saint (S . Vicente Ferrer), a pope (Benedict XIII or Pope Luna) and a king (Ferdinand I of Aragon), called for seek a consensus to end the Western Schism, which ended without success after the refusal of abdication by Pope Luna. Josefina calls our attention to the plate visibly presides over this house, which refers to the legendary part of this historic moment, that was the miracle of San Vicente Ferrer worked to resuscitate a child who was murdered by his mother and cooked to offer it the saint as the most exquisite delicacies.
We come now to the Archpriest's Church of Santa Maria Maggiore. It is one of the most beautiful temples in the Mediterranean. Gothic building, brings together two door facade of great interest, that of Apostles and the Virgin.
Inside there to stop the spiral staircase that leads to the choir, made of polychrome plaster stucco, and the Portico of Glory, the Last Judgement, the baroque high altar Churrigueresque large, colorful stained glass rose windows original fourteenth-century Valencian school and the monumental organ, created by Turull, Aragon school in 1719. We also had the opportunity to visit the museum located inside the temple, which retains some paintings and gold works of great beauty.
's visit tour concluded at the Convent of San Francisco. This Gothic convent marks the entrance to the castle. Along with other historic buildings annexed will become the Parador Nacional de Turismo de Morella. The church of the convent, the fourteenth century, shows the beauty and simplicity of the original Gothic, and the remains of the cloister.
And once the tour route, the agenda was free for everyone to enjoy the best way. Some did not want to miss the chance to go to the icon par excellence of the city, the castle of Morella.
The castle, which overlooks a sea of \u200b\u200bmountains, has been a most impressive strengths of the Mediterranean. The passage of numerous civilizations, prehistoric Iberians, Romans, Muslims, Christians ... have left their mark on this impressive building inhabited continuously since the third millennium BC.
Each stone contains stories, legends, alliances and conflicts. Courtyard rooms and have been the scene of the battles of El Cid, of strife as the War of Succession, and the axis of the Carlist wars.
These stones have been witness to the Cathars and Habsburg times. From the top you can fly through the sky of Morella, mountain ranges extend before you and the visual descent, panoramic, Morella house at the foot of the castle it seems like a swarm of red roofs.
After visiting the castle, all the teams participating in this journey of KDD in the Land of No one could enjoy the many caches enabled in the area and let us know a little more about the fabulous setting of Morella with its hidden corners, balconies with fabulous views, and stunning sights such as the sections of the aqueduct that provided water past the city.
also insert the commands were able to visit other nearby attractions such as the Sanctuary of Singular Balma, in Zorita del Maestrazgo, where the history and legends of witches and past mysteries confused in the rock.
An active and intense day of fun, just for some late, very, very late.
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