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TERUEL

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capital of the See also:Spanish See also:province of Teruel; on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river Guadalaviar, at its confluence with the Alfambra, and on the Murviedro-See also:Calatayud railway. Pop. (1900) 10,797. The older See also:part of Teruel is a walled See also:city with narrow gloomy streets and crumbling See also:medieval houses, but See also:modern suburbs have been built outside the walls. Some of the numerous churches are See also:worth seeing, with their paintings by the 17th-See also:century artist See also:Antonio Visquert. In the cloisters of See also:San Pedro See also:lie the remains of the celebrated " lovers of Teruel," Juan de Marcilla and See also:Isabella de See also:Segura, who lived in the 13th century and whose pathetic See also:story has formed the subject of numerous dramas and poems by See also:Perez de See also:Montalban, Yaque de See also:Salas, See also:Hartzenbusch and others. The See also:cathedral See also:dates from the 16th century. The See also:great See also:aqueduct of 140 See also:arches was erected in 1555–6o by See also:Pierre Bedel, a See also:French architect. Teruel has several See also:good hospitals and asylums for the aged and See also:children, an See also:institute, a training school for teachers, See also:primary See also:schools, a public library, an See also:athenaeum, a meteorological station, and a large See also:prison. The see was created in 1577, and forms part of the archiepiscopal province of See also:Saragossa.

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