The City Council of Zucaina (Castellón) has received the Protection Catalogue from AUG-ARQUITECTOS, SLP, the Cultural Section, in order to begin the environmental and territorial evaluation of the document, prior to the urban planning process.
The municipality of Zucaina has an area of 51.57 km². It is located 57 kilometers by road from the capital and at an altitude of 810 meters above sea level. It belongs to the “Alto Mijares” region, an inland and very unpopulated area of the province; the municipality itself has only 176 inhabitants, which means that the population density is 3.66 inhabitants/Km². However, it contains a rich archaeological, ethnological and architectural heritage that until now was awaiting a study and a protection tool, which justifies the writing of this catalogue.
In order to correctly prepare the Protection Catalogue section, it was necessary to carry out a detailed analysis and evaluation of all the heritage assets existing in the municipality, which required a bibliographic review and the compilation of the existing documentation in the General Inventory of Valencian Cultural Heritage (IGPCV), other archives and libraries, as well as the information available at the municipal level. Many visits have also been made and years have been spent prospecting the already known spaces and others likely to contain elements of relevance. This analysis is the result of the work carried out by several members of the team, who have been working in the municipality for years. The preparation of the catalogue does not in any way intend to close the study on local heritage, but rather the opposite, to encourage new research that continues to shed light and knowledge on this legacy.
This Cultural Section of the Zucaina Protection Catalogue has been prepared using the subsidies granted by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, pursuant to the provisions of the RESOLUTION of February 21, 2023, of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports.