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Morella Castle

Morella opens its gates, towers that have seen history, which saw King Jaume I enter the city beginning the Reconquest. The castle, overlooking an ocean of mountains, has been one of the most imposing fortresses 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. Halls and Patio de Armas have been the scene of the battles of El Cid Campeador, of conflicts such as the War of Succession, and the axis of the Carlist wars. These stones have witnessed the times of Cathars and Austrians. From the summit you can fly through the sky of Morella, mountain ranges extend before you and the visual descent, panoramic, of the Morella houses at the foot of the castle will seem a swarm of reddish roofs.

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Santa María la Mayor Archpriestly Church, Morella

Splendid testimony of the religious Gothic, the door of the Apostles of elegant decoration and the one of the Virgins of fine structure stand out. Inside, of special beauty are: the choir, with its unique staircase and choir loft, the baroque high altar and the organ, considered the most important in the Valencian Community.

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Convent of Sant Francesc

Former convent of the Franciscan friars, it has a church and a cloister of great beauty with its arches of great architectural elegance. Inside the De Profundis room there is a real jewel of macabre painting: "the dance of death", representing equality in the face of death, which has been restored.

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Temps de Dinosaures Museum

It gathers paleontological remains found in Morella, highlighting the figure of the Iguanodon as the dinosaur with the greatest presence.

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Towers and Wall of Morella

With a perimeter of a kilometer and a half they border the entire town. There are 16 towers, including those of Sant Miquel, and five gates.

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Morella City Council

Civil Gothic building, it has the Europa Nostra award for restoration, of special interest are its two Gothic halls (of the Council and Justice) and the Lonja. It has been used as a town hall since the 15th century.

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Aqueduct

The aqueduct of Morella is a monument of Gothic style that began to be built in the fourteenth century and ended in the fifteenth century although it has had structural reforms in the following centuries. This hydraulic infrastructure served to supply Morella with water from the Vinatxos spring and has different underground sections in tunnels, as well as two overhead. One of them, the Pedrera, is 120 meters long and more than 10 meters high, formed by arches of different styles from Gothic to semicircular and the other in Santa Llúcia was 300 meters long of which currently remain more than half.

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The Poets' Garden

One of the most unknown corners of the city, is redefined as a place of tribute to the poets linked to Morella. At the foot of the Convent of San Francisco is this small garden, where people can discover some of the great poets of the territory, read quotes from some of them, such as José Antonio Labordeta, Vicent Andrés Estellés, Carles Salvador, Joaquín García Girona, Pablo Guerrero or Carlos Gazulla De Ursino. It is a place to enjoy the outdoors and tranquility, with benches to rest and enjoy the environment, while letting your imagination fly. In short, the Poets' Garden is a beautiful and peaceful place that offers visitors the opportunity to enjoy nature, relax and learn about literature and culture.

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San Miguel Towers

The towers of San Miguel are the main access to the town of Morella. Twin towers with an octagonal base built in the 14th century, they form an important part of the walled structure that surrounds the town.

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14th century prison

In 1356 a great urban fire burned a large part of the town, including the council house that had stood on Zaragoza Street since the 13th century. This forced to make the building where the prisons are, the current town hall, which was built during the second part of the fourteenth century. We find a large prison, with various cells and outbuildings. In Morella there were actually three prisons, one for each jurisdiction of the estamental society: ecclesiastical, military and royal. Morella has also been a place where banishment sentences were served, such as the one imposed on the Catalan lawyer Ferran Valls i Taberner, in 1926 as a member of the Board of the Barcelona Bar Association, who disobeyed the government order not to publish the Judicial Guide in Catalan.

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Giner Factory

Just 4 kilometers from Morella, on the CV 14 road, next to the Bergantes River, is the old Giner Factory. An industrial colony dedicated to the textile industry from the mid-nineteenth century until the second decade of the twentieth century. This factory follows the model of the Catalan industrial colony, in which the workers had housing, a school and a chapel next to the factory. The first company name of the factory dates back to 1844 with the Giner i Guimerá brothers, who bought the Zurita Mill, essential for the operation of the factory. In 1877 Vicenta Guimerá Rocafort died, mother of Juan Giner, an enterprising woman and main figure of the factory. Between 1870 and 1876 the main buildings of the factory complex were built. In 1871 an 80-horsepower steam engine was in operation, in 1885 the 40-meter high chimney was built, in 1896 there were 121 people registered in the factory and some 400 people worked directly and indirectly. In 1904, 40 steam looms were in operation.

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