Discover Forcall

Discover Forcall through a range of interests: the landscape, surrounded by four Muelas, invites you to go hiking, while historic buildings, museums and the Santantonà shape the town’s cultural identity. If you’re looking for a hotel in Forcall, you can plan your trip around whether nature, architecture or history is your main focus.

Hiking between the Muelas and the Bergantes

Four Muelas surround Forcall. One specific starting point for a hike is the PR-CV 322 Mola de la Vila trail: it begins at the corner of Carrer III Centenari and Carrer Petra Palos. The route offers a bird’s-eye view of Forcall and the surrounding Muelas. It therefore combines a named starting point with a perspective on the town and its landscape.

The Riu Bergantes is another natural feature of the area: it is designated a Site of Community Importance. For anyone interested in the landscape and nature, this provides another point of interest for trip planning alongside the hiking trail. For tourist information, as well as help and guidance on local resources and services, the Tourist Info Forcall is available.

Buildings and traces of history

Forcall’s Plaza Mayor is large and lined with arcades. Buildings with a history of their own include the Casa-Palacio de los Miró, built in the 16th century, and the Casa de les Escaletes, also known as the Ayuntamiento, whose origins date back to the 16th and 17th centuries. Together, these places give an impression of how far back Forcall’s architectural history goes.

The town’s ecclesiastical architecture also reflects different centuries: Forcall’s original Gothic church dates back to the 13th century. The present-day church is from the 19th century and has a Renaissance nave and a simple façade. At the entrance to the town from the direction of Morella, the Ermita de la Consolación stands on a hill. This 16th-century chapel is reached via the CV-124 as far as the Consolacioneta, followed by a walk.

The Conjunto de Sant Josep y calvario comprises a hermitage, a garden viewpoint overlooking the Caldes River and a Calvary. The Calvary was built in 1886 to mark the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the relics of Saint Victor in Forcall. The ensemble thus brings together several distinct elements associated with a specifically dated historical occasion.

Festival traditions, museums and archaeology

The Santantonà de Forcall has been celebrated in the municipality since the Middle Ages. Its traditional customs include planting the maypole, burning the barraca and the ball rodat. If you’d like to plan your trip around the festival, check the dates in advance.

Different institutions explore a range of subjects: the Museo de la Alpargata documents the traditional craft of espadrille-making. Forcall’s permanent museographic collection mainly displays archaeological material from the Iberian-Roman city of Lesera. Forcall is also home to the Centro de Interpretación de la naturaleza del Bergantes and the Centro de Interpretación de la Fiesta de San Antonio. The town’s cultural connections therefore span crafts, archaeology, nature and festival traditions.

Another archaeological link to Forcall is the Sant Joaquim de la Menarella necropolis. It is located at an important crossroads of routes: north–south towards Forcall and east–west towards the Sierra de Gúdar. A total of 28 structures and 20 burial deposits have been documented there. In all, 90 people were buried in them according to the cremation rite in the 7th and 6th centuries BC. These figures give the archaeological site a concrete timescale and human dimension.

This gives you a clear choice of focus for your trip: hiking and landscape alongside the townscape, architectural history, museums and festival traditions. The themes that interest you most can guide your search for a suitable hotel in Forcall.

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