The Cross of the Three Kingdoms (in Spanish Cruz de los Tres Reinos) is a hill near the civil parish of Arroyo Cerezo, which is part of the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

Castielfabib Castielfabib is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality in the Comarques of the Valencian Community, ''comarca'' of Rincón de Ademuz in the Valencia (autonomous community), Valencian Community, Spain. Geography Known as "the small Albarrací ...

in the

comarca A ''comarca'' (, , , ) is a traditional region or local administrative division found in Portugal, Spain, and some of their former colonies, like Brazil, Nicaragua, and Panama. The term is derived from the term ''marca'', meaning a "march, mark ...

of the

Rincón de Ademuz Rincón de Ademuz (; ) is a Spanish ''comarca'' constituted as an exclave of both the Valencian Community and the Valencia province located between the provinces of Cuenca ( Castile-La Mancha) and Teruel (Aragon Aragon ( , ; Spanish and ...

province of Valencia Valencia ( , ), officially València (), is a provinces of Spain, province of Spain, in the central part of the autonomous Valencian Community. Of the province's 2.7 million people (2024), almost one-third live in the capital, Valencia, whic ...

(

Valencian Community The Valencian Community is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid wit ...

). It is part of the

Montes Universales Montes Universales is a long mountain range in the southeastern end of the Iberian System. Its highest point is the 1,935 m high summit known as Caimodorro. The 1,830 m high Muela de San Juan is another important peak. Administratively, the Mo ...

mountain range. This rise has an elevation of 1,555 m.

Etymology

This site is so-named because it once formed the border intersection of three kingdoms: the

Kingdom of Aragon The Kingdom of Aragon (; ; ; ) was a medieval and early modern Monarchy, kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula, corresponding to the modern-day Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Aragon, in Spain. It became a part of the larger ...

, the

Kingdom of Valencia The Kingdom of Valencia (; ; ), located in the eastern shore of the Iberian Peninsula, was one of the component realms of the Crown of Aragon. The Kingdom of Valencia was formally created in 1238 when the Moorish taifa of Valencia was taken in ...

, and the

Kingdom of Castile The Kingdom of Castile (; : ) was a polity in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. It traces its origins to the 9th-century County of Castile (, ), as an eastern frontier lordship of the Kingdom of León. During the 10th century, the Ca ...

. Tradition holds that in the medieval era, the kings of both crowns (the king of Castile, and the king of Aragon, who was also king of Valencia), met in that location to discuss their mutual issues.

Bibliography

* Montesinos, J. y Poyato, C. (Ed.): ''Actas del Primer Simposio de La Cruz de los Tres Reinos. Espacio y tiempo en un territorio de frontera. Simposio Interregional Interuniversitario'', celebrado en Ademuz el 25, 26 y 27 de julio de 2008. Edición de la Universitat de València y de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Cuenca, 2011. .

External links

Blog La Cruz de los Tres Reinos

Página web del INSTITUTO CULTURAL Y DE ESTUDIOS DEL RINCÓN DE ADEMUZ y su revista ''ABABOL''

Arte y patrimonio en el Rincón de Ademuz

Etymology

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