Church of the Assumption of Our Lady (Ricla)

The church of Santa María de Tobed is a fortress-Gothic-Mudejar church built between 1356 and 1385. Erected by the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Calatayud, it is a prototype of a church fortress, a concept unique in Spain at the time. On the outside, it is designed for defence, with a peripheral gallery and a defence radius. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with 6 other Aragonese monuments.

The primitive Mudejar church belonged to the typology of a single-nave church, with three sections, a pentagonal head, and chapels between the buttresses open to the nave; The nave was covered with simple cross vaults with diagonal ribs while the chapels could be closed with a pointed barrel. Flanking the foot section, two towers were arranged, of which the southern one, similar to the one existing in the church of San Félix de Torralba in Ribota, has a slightly rectangular plan with a spiral staircase, from where the roofs of the church were accessed. church. From this stage, an octagonal four-loop panel is also preserved, combined with cartouches, both on the tower and in the nave.

Located next to the old Puerta de Somajas, currently called Puerta de Zaragoza, the current Royal Basilica-Collegiate Church of the Holy Sepulcher was completed in 1613 by the architect Gaspar de Villaverde, who erected a proto-baroque temple of Herrerian tradition on the previous one of Mudejar style, of the that some remains are still preserved.