Mora de Rubielos to Morella

Travelled:219km
Stay: Morella - aire free parking and services N40.624 W0.091198
Visited: Mora de Rubielos and Rubielos de Mora

We said goodbye to the Mediterranean and headed 100km inland again to Mora de Rubielos. 

We parked along the main street and walked through the town to go and visit one of the best preserved castles in the Aragon. It was just €3 each and we enjoyed our 1hour visit. 

The streets of Mora

View of the church from the castle

Some interesting models of catapults etc

The great hall

The dungeon

The basement

One of the many stonemason markers

We had a bite to eat sitting in the square next to the lovely fountain and the Gothic style church. 

View from the outer wall if the castle and the church.

Our next stop was Rubielos de Mora, which was a well to do place in the 15th to 17th century and this was reflected in the grand mansions throughout the town. We got a map from the tourist office and then walked around appreciating the architecture of the buildings. 

The tourist office

The gothic church with the 2nd widest nave in Spain.

 Then it was up into the mountains to the pass of Linares 1659m 

before continuing down on the A1701 through Mosqueruela. 

 The road then became a bit narrower and rougher, although they are at present working on it. We were amazed at the amount of dry stone walls in this area all they way to Morella. 

Dry stone huts

We love travelling on these back roads as it is always a surprise what you can encounter and the view of Morella did not disappoint.  

We parked in the free aire which offered great views of the town and took it easy. Although Mark did manage to re - silicon the shower and change the gas filter on the lpg system to see if that has been the cause of the water heater shutting down on ignition. So another long day on the road but a very pretty drive with some interesting towns.