Novallas offers several distinct ways to explore its history and landscape: the former castle, a church with Romanesque and Baroque features, and a cultural landscape of fields, groves, poplars and orchards. A 500-metre accessible path along the irrigation channel adds a specific route to the historical themes. When planning your stay, you can decide whether architecture, local collections, or the connection between water, agriculture and landscape will shape it most.

Castle and Irrigation

The former Castillo de Novallas was built by Muslims and handed over to the Knights Templar in the 12th century. Only the tower remains of the complex. Novallas’s heritage from the Muslim period also includes a network of irrigation channels that supplies the town’s orchards, as well as the layout of its oldest area. The channel network offers a direct link between water management and fruit growing; the layout of the oldest area adds a spatial perspective on local history.

A Church Between Romanesque and Baroque

The Iglesia de la Asunción de la Virgen in Novallas developed from a Romanesque building into a Baroque structure. Its Romanesque apse features ashlar masonry and decorated columns; inside are 18th-century Baroque altarpieces dedicated to San Marcial and Santa Bárbara. The contrast between these elements sheds light on the building’s history: the apse and altarpieces belong to different periods and reveal different aspects of its architectural development.

Cultural Landscape and Routes

The landscape around Novallas includes grain fields, olive and almond groves, poplar stands along the river, and orchards that evoke the Andalusian period. The Senda de los Azudes is a 500-metre accessible path along an irrigation channel. Route 16 follows a different course, from Malón to Vozmediano: it passes through the Río Queiles valley and through Novallas. Together, these offer a short channel-side walk and a route linking two named places through a valley.

Museums and Archaeological Themes

Casa de Novallas is an ethnographic museum that collects and preserves objects from the region’s traditional culture. Its exhibits include an extensive collection of farming tools and a distinctive collection of bird nests. The tools and nests bring together a connection to traditional culture and an unusual collection theme. Visits to Casa de Novallas are arranged by telephone appointment in advance; include this step in your plans.

The Interpretation Centre for the Archaeological Remains of the Tarazona y el Moncayo district focuses on another cultural theme. It opened in January 2016 in Novallas’s town hall and castle. The centre displays a replica of the Novallas bronze piece made by the Museo de Zaragoza.

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