Promoter:_ Ayuntamiento de Montón de JIloca

Collaborators: Alejandro Alda, Victor Calvo, María Seoane, Andrés Jiménez, Rafael ALaiz

Builder: Gestaqua

Awards: Selected Bienal Europea del Paisaje

The Plaza Nueva de Montón was born as a donation from the wooded orchard of the good José Franco Temprado in 1685 to celebrate, in honor of San Agustín, a bullfight of 5 bulls that they brought, no less, than from Navarre. The Plaza Nueva of this small and beautiful town on the banks of the Jiloca River was a piece of land in the midday sun where everything passed and must continue to happen. Markets, festivals, dances, processions and conversations, ball games, events that over two and a half centuries have shaped the history and community life of this small Aragonese town.

A plaster pediment, the pylon and the fountain, the arch support, the benches decorated with the tiles of the eaves, the shade pergolas, and of course its "Vivan los Quintos" painted crowning the scene, and which we rescue from an old photo today projected with light. We did not want to point to a year to be the year of all the fifths.

The architecture of public space is also shaped as the appropriate sum of small things, elements that fix the vernacular referents that make up a place. The exceptional in the noble fact of everyday life. The beautiful in the world of always.