Discover La Cerollera: Trails, History and Architectural Heritage

La Cerollera combines trails through nature with traces of its local history. The “Tumbas y Maquis” route is a 14.3-kilometre hiking trail with an estimated duration of 3 hours and 45 minutes; it runs at elevations between 670 and 835 metres and leads to the remains of several megalithic cultural tombs near Les Valletes. Eight hiking routes connect the natural surroundings of La Cerollera with the history of the town: Ruta Nevera Caubet, Ruta Font de Dalt, Ruta Las Fuentes, Ruta Tumbas y Maquis, Ruta Santet y Font del Forat, Ruta Las Carrascas, Ruta Cova del Molí and Ruta Font dels Prats. The trails can be compared by length, duration and subject matter. When looking for a holiday apartment in La Cerollera, you can pay attention to the travel dates, room category and cancellation conditions in the available offers.

History and Remembrance

On the ground floor of the Old Oven, the “La guerra en La Cerollera” exhibition space permanently presents a multimedia offering on the history of the Agrupación Guerrillera de Levante y Aragón (AGLA) in Aragón, as well as an audiovisual programme featuring statements from seven local residents. At the end of 1946, Ángel Fuertes, known as “Antonio”, the leader of Sector 17 of the Agrupación Guerrillera de Levante y Aragón (AGLA), established a headquarters in the municipality of La Cerollera and a training camp nearby. The surviving remains of the Campamento Escuela de La Cerollera reveal four huts; there may have been more. The camp comprised three areas: a kitchen; living, storage and training areas; and surveillance and observation posts.

A photographic book published by Asociación SERVA documents the traditional annual cycle of cereal cultivation—from soil preparation and sowing through harvesting and preparing the threshing floor to bringing in and threshing the grain.

Architectural Heritage and Festivals

The parish church of Nuestra Señora del Remedio in La Cerollera is a Baroque church completed in 1762. Its rectangular floor plan comprises three naves: a central nave with a barrel vault and lunettes, side naves with groin vaults, and a dome over the crossing. The Ermita de San Cristóbal stands on a hill near La Cerollera; it is a 17th-century Baroque chapel completed in 1692.

The Casa Palacio Marqués de Santa Coloma manor house in La Cerollera was built in the 16th century. Its top floor features an Aragonese arcaded gallery and a distinctive wooden roof overhang. The three-storey Casa Pallarés dates from the 17th or 18th century and has a preserved long wooden balcony, considered the longest in Bajo Aragón.

The patron-saint festivities of La Cerollera take place on the fourth Sunday in August, occasionally on the preceding weekend. Saturday is dedicated to San Cristóbal and Sunday to the Virgen del Remedio.

Other destinations at the same destination level are Montoro De Mezquita, La Puebla De Valverde, Alfambra, Calaceite, Moscardón, Abejuela, Bronchales and Aldehuela.

Landscape and Surroundings

The la Muela summit is located in the surroundings of Cerollera. In the wider regional area around Cerollera are the Castle Calatravo castle, the Capilla Distrito del Barón de Salillas museum, the Museo de la Magia museum, the Hereu and Encanadé peaks, and the Santuario de la Virgen de la Balma sanctuary, a church.

More Trails and Dates

A 14-kilometre circular horse-riding route starting and ending in La Cerollera runs along paths and forest tracks through the municipality’s wooded surroundings. The programme for 28 April includes a pilgrimage from La Cerollera to Punta del Santet.

To the overview of the higher-level destination: Teruel.