XV Semana Modernista — Teruel, 17–22 November 2026

Teruel holds its fifteenth Semana Modernista from 17 to 22 November 2026. The Ayuntamiento de Teruel organises it, and the programme was presented on 10 November by the city council together with the Fundación Bodas de Isabel, under the motto Arquitectura modernista en Teruel: de las ideas de Gaudí a los edificios de Monguió — modernist architecture in Teruel, from Gaudí’s ideas to Monguió’s buildings.

The thread of this edition is the centenary of Antoni Gaudí’s death, and the attention falls on Pablo Monguió, the architect who brought the movement into the city. The cultural half of the week starts on 17 November with presentations and two talks. An exhibition devoted to the work of the Asociación Nacional de Entidades Modernistas (ANEM), of which the Fundación Bodas de Isabel is a member, is installed in the Claustro del Obispado with work by the member organisations and models of Gaudí buildings.

The weekend belongs to the street. On Saturday 21 November at 11am a parade of modernist characters leaves the Jardincillos de Fernando Hué, follows calle Torán, crosses the Fernando Hué viaduct and arrives at plaza de San Juan, plaza del Torico and plaza de la Catedral. That route is new: it takes in the Ensanche, the nineteenth-century extension, alongside the squares the festival has always used. Between 70 and 80 participants come from outside Teruel, with groups from Benicàssim, Alcoy, Tarrasa and Santander, and the Agrupación Musical Ciudad de Teruel walks with them. The Ayuntamiento then receives the invited groups in plaza de la Catedral, a second parade sets off for plaza de San Juan, and the morning ends there with Una mañana burguesa, music and dancing.

The centre of all this is the square the city still calls by its old name: Plaza del Mercado, today Plaza del Torico. Across the week the programme runs to lecture cycles, exhibitions, modernist walks, popular dances of the period and concerts, and this year includes the fifth Encuentro de Gigantes «Segundo de Chomón».

Eduardo Suárez, the councillor for tourism, describes the week as keeping its two sides, cultural and festive. Lorena Muñoz, who manages the Fundación Bodas de Isabel, says the edition was dedicated to architecture and to the movement’s main figure in Teruel, Pablo Monguió.

The full programme and the times are on the organiser’s page linked below.