Cantavieja

Templar knights, then the Knights of St John, held this walled town of the Maestrazgo, set at 1,290 metres above deep ravines. In the Carlist wars it became the stronghold of General Ramón Cabrera, with an officers' academy and a foundry that cast the Carlist army's first cannon. Eighteenth-century wool wealth paid for the Loreto hermitage and the hospital of San Roque.

Highlights

• The arcaded square of Cristo Rey in the medieval old town
• Parish church of the Asunción, enlarged in 1745
• Ermita de Loreto (1700) and the Hospital de San Roque (1775)
• Cueva de los Toros, a rock shelter with Neanderthal traces 35,000 years old
• Rock engravings at Cerradico Casa Granja and Masía del Tosco

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