Uncastillo

Uncastillo, which together with Ejea de los Caballeros, Sádaba, Tauste and Sos del Rey Católico form the five medieval villages which gave the county its name, it hasn’t changed much over the years. So much so, that it seems like the village has been frozen in time.

The stones full of history tell the stories of more than a thousand years, six churches the majority Romanic, a Torre del Homenaje –also Romanic- dominating the farm house converted into a very interesting museum, a haughty ruined gothic palace, winding streets onto which palaces and manor houses with entrances of white painted stone look, a small square, that of Santa María, in which the evening we visited I was witness to, surrounded by fireworks and a noisy recording of the noise of sheep and cows made by their friends, a picturesque wedding of a local shepherd.

Uncastillo is a small pretty medieval village which is considered to be the best Romanic complex of the XII century in Spain. In 1966 it was declared a site of historic and artistic importance. It is worth at least spending a day visiting it.

I walked through the narrow steep streets without hurrying, I looked up and down and from side to side, because there are many treasures to discover. Don’t miss visiting the castle, where the Torre del Homenaje (XI century) and the palace (XIV century) are preserved; the church of Santa María (XII and XV-XVI centuries), with an impressive side gate, and the church of San Martín de Tours, converted into a Centre of the Interpretation of Romanic art (XII century).