Walk through the Escalinata, San Martín and the Torico

A free walk around what can be seen from the street. It starts down at the railway station and climbs the Escalinata, the great neo-Mudéjar staircase of brick and ceramic that links the station with the Paseo del Óvalo. Above, the El Salvador tower; then the San Martín tower (1315-1316), also built as two towers one inside the other. It ends at Plaza del Torico, with its column and its small bull, and beneath it the medieval cisterns, begun in 1373.

The route

The Escalinata. It was inaugurated in 1921 to bridge the steep drop between the station and the historic centre, and so that those arriving by train would have a good first impression of the city. It was designed by the civil engineer José Torán de la Rad, who mixed Mudéjar brick and ceramic with Modernista ironwork. In its upper part there is an attached stone high relief of the Lovers, by the sculptor Aniceto Marinas. It is a Site of Cultural Interest and, together with the cathedral's south portal, the most representative work of Teruel's neo-Mudéjar, according to the Town Council.

El Salvador and the old town. You go up towards the centre along Calle de El Salvador; the tower has a street passage at its base, like the other Mudéjar towers of Teruel. If you want to climb it, see the page for the El Salvador tower.

San Martín. On Plaza del Seminario rises the slender San Martín tower, with its panels of green and white ceramic. A little lower down is the Portal de Daroca, or de la Andaquilla, through which, according to legend, Diego de Marcilla entered on the day of Isabel's wedding.

Plaza del Torico. It is the centre of the city's life. Beneath it are the 14th-century cisterns, water reservoirs for times of scarcity or siege. In the square the Modernista building of Tejidos El Torico, by Monguió, with its corner turret, also stands out.

So you do not get lost

• The ceramic panels of San Martín are easy to see from the street.
• The cisterns open every day from 11:00 to 14:00 and from 17:00 to 19:00; entry costs €1.30, €1 for ages 7 to 14 and pensioners, and is free for under-7s. Access is adapted.
• The municipal tourist office is at Plaza de los Amantes, 6.
• On the third Saturday of November the city celebrates the Modernista Week, with street re-enactments.

From Plaza del Torico, Calle Hartzenbusch climbs to San Pedro and the Mausoleum of the Lovers.