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Teruel

Teruel, a city of over 35 thousand,1 is located not far from the left (west) bank of a river which gains the name of Turia at about this point,2 in the city's eponymous province, in the Aragón Autonomous Community of España (Spain). One modern building is the Playa de Aro 1 (157 feet, 1969).3 The Mudéjjar architecture there and elsewhere is honored by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Nearby is some ancient rock art that is one of the 758 sites constituting another World Heritage Site.

External references

Tower, Teruel, Teruel Province, Aragón Autonomous Community, España (Spain)

Footnotes

1. 2009 figure from the side bar of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruel, accessed December 28-30, 2015.
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turia_(river), accessed April 19, 2016.
3. Emporis.com, accessed April 19, 2016.