17 Sights in Tudela, Spain (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Tudela, Spain. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 17 sights are available in Tudela, Spain.
Sightseeing Tours in Tudela1. Murallas - S. IX
The walls of Tudela were the fortification, of Muslim origin, which defensively surrounded the city of Tudela (Navarra), along the perimeter that now makes up the old town of the city. A first wall was built at the beginning of the ninth century, with the fortification of Amrùs Ben Yusuf, which surrounded a first enclosure, the founding. This first wall reached the Midovilla ravine, which initially served as a natural defensive pit. With demographic growth, especially at the time of the Banu Qasi, this wall was extended during the first half of the ninth century until reaching the following natural pit, the Queiles River. This corresponds to the main wall of Medina Tudelana, which was preserved intact until the 16th century. After the reconquest of Tudela in 1119, the Moors were transferred to extramurous, building a new neighborhood subsequently known as La Morería; This new neighborhood was immediately protected by a new fortification: the walls of the Morería.
2. Torre Monreal
The Monreal Tower is a tower, traditionally considered to be of Arab origin, located on a hill southwest of the city of Tudela (Navarre), next to the Lourdes district. According to the archaeological excavations carried out around it and inside, it would belong to a watchtower to be able to control the possible arrival of enemies in that area. It is the only watchtower in Tudela that has survived to the present day. It stands on a hill that dominates the city in the opposite direction to the Cerro de Santa Bárbara, where the Alcazaba or Castle of Tudela was located. In the past, this hill must have been known as Monte del Rey or Monte Real, from which it derives its name.
3. Mirador del Cerro del Castillo
The Monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Tudela (Navarre) in Spain, is a large statue built in honour of Jesus of Nazareth, "erected as a spiritual beacon at the top of the Cerro del Castillo, from which it extends its protection to the city and the entire region". The image of the Heart of Jesus is a fundamental piece of the city's silhouette. It was located on what was the main tower of the old Castle of Tudela and, later, the Hermitage of Santa Bárbara. The Heart of Jesus has its counterpoint on the other side of the city with the statue dedicated to the Heart of Mary.
4. Ermita de Santa Cruz - El Cristo
The hermitage of Santa Cruz de Tudela (Navarre) is a hermitage that was built in the twelfth century by the monks of Siegense and located 1 km north of the Old Town of Tudela, on the right bank of the Ebro River. The first hermitage also bore the title of church and basilica. There was a brotherhood called Ballesteros, which may have been founded in 1235. The current building of the hermitage dates back to the mid-nineteenth century. It is the headquarters of the brotherhood of Christ, which is why it is also called the Hermitage of Christ.
5. Iglesia de San Nicolás de Bari
The church of San Nicolás de Bari in Tudela (Navarre) was one of the most outstanding Romanesque temples in the city, dating back to the first half of the 12th century. It was rebuilt in the eighteenth century with its current Baroque factory. It is located between San Nicolás and Serralta streets in the Old Town of Tudela. Sancho VII the Strong was buried here, although two years later he was definitively transferred to Roncesvalles.
6. Iglesia de San Jorge
The Church of San Jorge El Real de Tudela (Navarra) is a Jesuit Mannerist of the seventeenth century. It is located in the Plaza Mercadal. It was the chapel of the Jesuit convent until the expulsion of the Society of Jesus in 1767, then it became the property of the crown, which is why it was called San Jorge el Real and for which the shield of Carlos is on his facade III. Subsequently it became parish.
7. Estatua de Sancho El Fuerte
Sancho VII called the Strong was King of Navarre from 1194 until his death in 1234. He was the son and heir of Sancho VI, whom he followed as the second king to hold the title of King of Navarre. Sancho VII was the first to use the chains of Navarre as his blazon, a symbol that later would become the main one of Navarre, and the last member of the Jiménez dynasty, which had ruled since the 9th century.
8. Catedral de Santa María
The Cathedral of Saint Mary of Tudela is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Plaza Vieja in the center of Tudela, autonomous community of Navarre, Spain. The medieval building was originally a collegiate church. It became a cathedral with the creation of the Diocese of Tudela, which existed 1783-1851 and again 1889-1956. It is now a co-cathedral in the Archdiocese of Pamplona and Tudela.
9. Monumento a Benjamìn de Tudela
Benjamin of Tudela, also known as Benjamin ben Jonah, was a medieval Jewish traveler who visited Europe, Asia, and Africa in the twelfth century. His vivid descriptions of western Asia preceded those of Marco Polo by a hundred years. With his broad education and vast knowledge of languages, Benjamin of Tudela is a major figure in medieval geography and Jewish history.
10. Iglesia de la Compañía de María
The church of the Company of Mary or of the Teaching of Tudela (Navarre), built in the eighteenth century, is the only essentially Baroque monument in the Navarrese Ribera. It is located in the Plaza de San Juan and Calle de la Enseñanza. In addition to the church, which is the only thing that is preserved, the Society of Mary had a convent and a school.
11. Monumento al Corazón de María
The Heart Monument of María de Tudela (Navarra) is a great statue built in honor of María in the mid -twentieth century in a hill in front of the Monreal Tower, near the Lourdes neighborhood. The heart of Mary has her counterpoint on the other side of the city, on the hill of Santa Barbara, with the monument dedicated to the heart of Jesus.
12. Palacio de Marqués de Huarte
The palace of the Marquis of Huarte in Tudela (Navarre) is a splendid Baroque palace from the mid-eighteenth century, it has two façades, on Calle Mercadal and on the Herrería. It is located in the Old Town of the city. It currently houses the Yanguas y Miranda Library and the Municipal Archive of Tudela.
13. Busto de Muza
Musa ibn Musa al-Qasawi (Arabic: موسى بن موسى القسوي) also nicknamed the Great ; died 26 September 862) was leader of the Muwallad Banu Qasi clan and ruler of a semi-autonomous principality in the upper Ebro valley in northern Iberia in the 9th century.
14. Puente del Ebro
The Ebro de Tudela (Navarra) bridge is a Spanish medieval stone bridge, of a 360 m length that is composed of 16 batteries and 17 arches, all uneven. Its importance is consubstantial to the city, whose history is articulated around the passage of the Ebro River.
15. Iglesia del Carmen
The church and convent of El Carmen de Tudela (Navarre) is a temple from the end of the sixteenth century, in the Mannerist style, located on the corner of Gayarre and Carmen Alta streets in the Old Town of Tudela, with an exit in the latter street.
16. Iglesia de Santa María de Gracia
The parish church of Santa María de Gracia de Tudela (Navarra) is a Gothic-Renaissance Church of the 16th century that belongs to the hospital of the same name and that is between the current Plaza Nueva and Calle Don Miguel Eza de Tudela.
17. Iglesia y convento de los Capuchinos
The Capuchin Convent and Church of the Divine Shepherdess of Tudela (Navarre) is a convent and church of the Capuchin order from the end of the nineteenth century, located in the street of the same name in the current expansion of Tudela.
Wikipedia: Iglesia y convento de los Capuchinos (Tudela) (ES)
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