Cantavieja and Mirambel: The Hospitallers' Maestrazgo
Aragon, Spain
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Cantavieja and Mirambel: The Hospitallers' Maestrazgo
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The Maestrazgo is the high, empty, broken country of southern Teruel — limestone, deep canyons, and villages at a thousand metres that have been losing people for a century. Cantavieja was founded in 1197 and ran the region for the Knights of the Order of St John; Mirambel has about a hundred and ten people and an intact walled centre. It is one of the most thinly populated areas in western Europe, part of what Spaniards call la España vaciada, the emptied Spain, and that emptiness is precisely what makes it worth driving into.
Required Activities
1
of 3
Walk Cantavieja's arcaded Plaza de Cabrera, in the capital of the Maestrazgo founded in 1197 and a Cultural Heritage Site since 1981
2
of 3
Walk the medieval streets of Mirambel, a village of about 110 people at 993m elevation counted among the most beautiful in Spain
3
of 3
Find the Hospital de San Roque of 1775 and the parish church of the Asunción, enlarged in 1745, from Cantavieja's wool-trade century
Walk Cantavieja's arcaded Plaza de Cabrera, in the capital of the Maestrazgo founded in 1197 and a Cultural Heritage Site since 1981
Walk the medieval streets of Mirambel, a village of about 110 people at 993m elevation counted among the most beautiful in Spain
Find the Hospital de San Roque of 1775 and the parish church of the Asunción, enlarged in 1745, from Cantavieja's wool-trade century
Before you go
Roads are narrow, winding and high, and snow closes them in winter. Fuel and shops are very sparse — fill up before going in.
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Potential total
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