Architectural description
Torre de la iglesia de San Martín
The tower adopts the tower-door typology, open with a pointed barrel vault at the bottom 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 that stand out against the background, creating wide tapestries inspired by Almohad architecture. Intersecting mixtilinear arches and figure-of-eight bows stand out. The glazed ceramic, specially designed and elaborated for the tower, constitutes a unifying and dematerializing ornamental element of the wall "the glazed ceramic is a modifier of the spatial ensemble, it dematerializes the wall by mirroring with the sunlight" M.I. Alvaro Zamora. “The bell towers constitute the most externalized and resounding manifestation of Aragonese Mudejar art” G.M. Borras Gualis.
