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| Castle of Loarre
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The castle of Loarre is a castle románico located on the mountain of Loarre, Spain (to some 35 kilometers of Huesca). From their position one has a control on the whole plain of the Valley of Huesca and in particular on he/she Bowls, Muslim main square of the area and that it controlled the agricultural rich lands of the plain.The castle settles on a promontory of calcareous rock that uses as foundations. This supposed a defensive great advantage, since this way the walls could not be mined (habitual technique in the blockade of strengths that consisted on building a tunnel below the wall stops later to sink it and to make this way a way for the one that to assault). It is also surrounded by a wall with turrets.The castle is in quite good conservation (except for the part of the old castle of Sancho III, a lot but deteriorated) state and it is considered as the conserved strength better románica of Europe. The small chapel that there are to the entrance (with an incredible acoustics) and the majestic church of the castle (of the one that unfortunately the whereabouts of the paintings romanicas is ignored) in which calls the attention the dome (for the not very habitual thing that is in the románico) highlights.It was built in the XI century by the king's order Sancho III, to serve as advance party from the one that to organize the attacks against he/she Bowls. The initial construction was enlarged later on the one that we know nowadays during the reign of Sancho RamĂrez under whose reign you proceeded to the foundation of a monastery in this castle.During the XII century the area stops to be border and the castle loses its initial function of advance party against the Muslim lands.In the XV century, the population that lived to the feet of the castle moves to the current village of Loarre, material reutilizando of the strength.
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| Loarre
Guest 2006/8/8 16:24
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Loarre is a village of the county of Huesca, municipality belonging to the district Valley of Huesca. It is located to the foot of the mountain from their own name to 27 km to the NO of Huesca in the highway TO-1206 among he/she Bowls and Ayerbe In March of 1099 the king Pedro I of Aragon confirmed to the monastery of Montearagón the church of "Luar" (UBIETO ARTETA, diplomatic Collection of Pedro I, nº. 62, p. 298) the day September 24 1381 the king Pedro IV of Aragon sold Pedro Jordan of Urriés the village of Loarre with their villages (SINUÉS, nº.1102 to 1105) the day October 29 1408 the king Martin I of Aragon sold the castle and village from Loarre to Ramón of Mur (SINUÉS, nº. 1111 to 1113)
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| Graus
Guest 2006/8/8 16:21
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Graus is located to the northeast of the county of Huesca and the south of the District of Ribagorza, in the fork of the rivers Esera and Isabena.It is capital administrative of the District. With a population of 3700 inhabitants (2600 belonging to the town and the rest to the dependent municipalities) it is located as the biggest town in the whole district.
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| Huesca Cathedral
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Huesca is a county of the North of Spain, in the north part of the autonomous community of Aragon. Lima with the counties of Lérida, Zaragoza, and Navarrese, and with France.Their surface is of 15.636 km². Their population is 215.864 hab. (2005), and their population density is 13,80 inhabitants / km². It is conformed by 202 municipalities.Their capital is the city of Huesca, where he/she lives near the population's fifth part.In this county he/she is the national Park of Ordesa and Lost Mount.. Cathedral of Huesca. Beautiful building of the primitive Gothic. XIII-XIV centuries.. Church of San Pedro the Old One. Church Románica XII S. Cloister and Real Vault of Reyes from Aragon (Alfonso I "the Fighter" and Ramiro II "the Monk").. Basilica of San Lorenzo. Dedicated to the pattern of the city. Baroque building of vestibular plant.
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