DINOpaseo por EL CASTELLAR: Cultura Científica en un Paisaje Urbano

Celebrating the International Museum Day 2016. El Castellar is a small village in the province of Teruel (Aragón, Spain) with only 58 inhabitants at 40 km from the city of Teruel. The Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis has carried out multiple palaeontological activities since 2002, which have brought to light 61 sites with dinosaur fossils (bones and tracks).

This enormous diversity of dinosaur fossils has favoured the design of a museographical project called DINOwalk in El Castellar. Tourists can admire the diversity of dinosaurs and tracks of the municipality following a route around the streets of the village. Along the route there are several stops with replicas and didactic panels. The DINOwalk also displays, carefully integrated with the local architecture, a reconstruction of a theropod dinosaur, a huge mural of more than 200 square metres recreating a Jurassic landscape (with Turiasaurus, Aragosaurus and Dacentrurus) and a metal sculpture representing Iberosauripus. The main aim is to promote the palaeontological heritage of the municipality as a factor for local economic development.