Riodeva
NOT TO BE MISSED
Los Amanaderos and Titania.
Complement your visit with:
At your way:
From water to sulphur – go to page
Between watercourses and hiding places – go to page
Entrench:
Villel, Fortines del Plano – go to page
Andatela:
Water hiking trail – go to page
Hiking trail of Singular Points- go to page
Hiking trail of the Alto de la Molina – go to page
Route of the narrows of the river Ebrón – go to page
Services:
Inhabitants: 142
Altitude: 967 m.
Demonym: Riodevano/a
Website: www.riodeva.es
How to get there?
42 km from Teruel on national road 330, turn off on local road (TE-V-6012) after Libros, on the border with Rincón de Ademuz (Valencia). See map
NATURAL HERITAGE
Archaeological burial site in “El Moral”.
Fountain of Los Amanaderos.Water source and waterfalls of Los Amanaderos.
The Crossed Canal.
The Strait of Aguafuerte.
Source of the river Riodeva.
Exploitation of kaolin deposit.
Fountain “Los Baños” of medicinal waters.
Fountain of La Cuadraleja, which supplies water to the village.
Montereta Mill, recently restored. It is a two-storey building in which the machinery and stones of the old mill have been preserved. This unique building has been converted into an interpretation centre for the river Riodeva and Los Amanaderos. Located in the lower part of the village.
Routes:
PR-TE-46 (Riodeva – Cascante del Río)
Circular Route: Riodeva- Cascante del Río – Valacloche – Cubla.
GR 8: Camarena de la Sierra – Riodeva
GR 10: Riodeva – Villel
Palaeontological site. The remains of dinosaur fossils have been found. The last one was a large Turiasaurus Riodevensis.
HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
Hermitage of the Immaculate Conception, 1854, a neoclassical building with three naves covered with vaulted ceilings. Semicircular apse at the chancel. It is made of masonry.
Hermitage of Santa Bárbara, a rectangular construction with a gabled roof. It is located at the point where the municipal district of Riodeva converges with those of Villel and Libros.
The parish church of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores is a neoclassical work from the middle of the 18th century. It has three naves, the central one covered with a barrel vault with lunettes, while the side naves are covered with vaulted vaults. The tower starts with a square masonry body and continues with three octagonal brick bodies. The work on the sacristy doors is worth mentioning.
Ruins of a castle in Cabroncillo. Cabroncillo was a village located in the current municipality of Riodeva.
The town and castle of Cabroncillo appear in the historical sources sometimes in relation to the Villel encomienda and sometimes in relation to the Community of Teruel.
FESTIVALS AND TRADITIONS
Santa Bárbara is celebrated on the second Saturday in May. According to tradition, two “mayordomesas”, unmarried women from the village, clean the hermitage and light the Virgin in the procession. There is a pilgrimage and a meal in the picnic area of the Santa Bárbara hermitage.
San Lorenzo, on 10 August.
La Inmaculada, on 8 December.