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The bocal

Distance Fustiñana - The bocal 13 kms

  • Called the bocal Fontellas the beginning of Imperial Canal of Aragon , in Navarra .

    The Palace of Charles V and Ebro river bank

    In Navarra, southeast of the town of Fontellas and between the river Ebro and the Imperial Canal, the town of El bocal, formed in the last third of the eighteenth century is. Is also the Palacio de Carlos V , this being an old factory building of the sixteenth century, although much altered, especially in its main facade, in the nineteenth century. It is conceived as a solid block with a first body brick masonry brick and two others, whose main facade has two towers and a gallery of including lower arches and a hammer in a backplane. It is surrounded by pleasant gardens with ponds and statues. One of these is a male bust of the late nineteenth century, appearing on a capital of twisted leaves, also of the time. Next to the Palace of Carlos V, a neoclassical church of the late eighteenth century is located. Its main facade has a central block with a neoclassical stone door lintel and a triangular pediment on consoles. Frame the front two bodies

    Source with the Ebro river in the background.

    side, less tall windows with stone lintels. Across the road next to the Palace and giving sight to the Imperial Canal, is the town of the eighteenth century, consisting of four large rectangular blocks with two floors and gabled roofs. The main facades of the pavilions have a strong tendency to flatness and rhythmically articulated with multiple flat bays and windows on the ground floor and balconies and windows, alternately, at the top.

    The town joins the palace through an avenue flanked by trees.

    You should also review two dams on the river Ebro oldest, behind the Palacio de Carlos V, is a work of sixteenth-century chairs, made ​​by Gil de Morlanes . The other, located upstream, belongs to the eighteenth century and is due to the initiative of the Aragonese canon Ramón Pignatelli.
    This paper draws on the declaration of a Cultural published in the BOE 31 de February 5, 2004
    Source: wikipedia (texts and images)