Architectural description
Torre de la Catedral de Santa María de Mediavilla, Teruel
The tower adopts the tower-door typology, open with a pointed barrel vault and three reinforcing transverse arches in its lower part to let the street through and thus favor communication. This typology is frequent in military architecture but not in religious architecture, as it happens in the four bell-towers-gate of Teruel in a singular way.
Outside, the walls are articulated and decorated with bricks highlighted on the background, generating abstract compositions. Horizontal friezes and two superimposed series of intersecting semicircular arches predominate. You can also see glazed ceramics designed and made specifically to apply in architecture. In the 17th century the tower was enlarged by adding an octagonal lantern.
