Castle in ruins, XIIIth century, Linares de Mora, Teruel, Aragon, Spain
The fortified town of Linares de Mora has an urbanism, barely modified, typical of a walled late medieval town with homogeneous dwellings, in which there are interesting examples of medieval constructions (castle, walls, wall portals, ...) and Baroque (Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception), as well as notable houses and other more popular ones, unified all this through a regular urban layout and with the chromatic tones of the whitewashed buildings and with reddish Arabic tile roofs.
The image of the town is marked by two elements: the remains of its castle (13th century), located at the highest point of the rock, and by its parish church (18th century), a masterpiece of Teruel Baroque, equipped with a bell tower . On the southern and eastern slopes of the rocky settlement, and adopting the shape of an L, in which the church occupies its angle, an articulated area of dwellings develops in each of the arms of the L, in four parallel and staggered paths (due to its adaptation to topography). In this regular layout, the absence of open spaces and the homogeneity of its urban fabric are made up of buildings between dividing walls - common wall to two houses - of three heights and double façade - as they are located in streets at different levels - stand out, in which the presence of abundant openings and balconies in its main facades is evident. The wall that ran round the entire population had its portals at the west ends, now disappeared, and northeast, in which three portals have been preserved at different heights,: the Portal de Abajo, the main access to the site, the Portal de Enmedio, and the Portal Alto, which gives access to the Hospital District, the most popular and rural area of the whole complex, developed around the Old Hospital and hermitage of Santa Lucía.
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Castle in ruins, XIIIth century, Linares de Mora, Teruel, Aragon, Spain
The fortified town of Linares de Mora has an urbanism, barely modified, typical of a walled late medieval town with homogeneous dwellings, in which there are interesting examples of medieval constructions (castle, walls, wall portals, ...) and Baroque (Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception), as well as notable houses and other more popular ones, unified all this through a regular urban layout and with the chromatic tones of the whitewashed buildings and with reddish Arabic tile roofs.
The image of the town is marked by two elements: the remains of its castle (13th century), located at the highest point of the rock, and by its parish church (18th century), a masterpiece of Teruel Baroque, equipped with a bell tower . On the southern and eastern slopes of the rocky settlement, and adopting the shape of an L, in which the church occupies its angle, an articulated area of dwellings develops in each of the arms of the L, in four parallel and staggered paths (due to its adaptation to topography). In this regular layout, the absence of open spaces and the homogeneity of its urban fabric are made up of buildings between dividing walls - common wall to two houses - of three heights and double façade - as they are located in streets at different levels - stand out, in which the presence of abundant openings and balconies in its main facades is evident. The wall that ran round the entire population had its portals at the west ends, now disappeared, and northeast, in which three portals have been preserved at different heights,: the Portal de Abajo, the main access to the site, the Portal de Enmedio, and the Portal Alto, which gives access to the Hospital District, the most popular and rural area of the whole complex, developed around the Old Hospital and hermitage of Santa Lucía.
Translated from Wikipedia by Google and edited by me.