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| Castle of Loarre
 informacion  2006/8/8 16:29
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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 RamÃrez 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.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_Loarre
Author: Miguel Daza |
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| Adahuesca Treviño chapel
informacion 2008/2/27 20:59
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| The hermitage of Our Mrs. of Treviño, National declared Monument, it is of style late románico of the century XIII picture: www.adahuesca.es |
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| Aneto dresses of the people in his natural environment
informacion 2008/3/8 11:32
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| Aneto is located in the valleys of Baliera and Noguera Ribagorzana they are a place of incommensurable beauty. They limit with the Valley from Arán to the north, the Valley of Isábena to the south, the one of BoÃ-Taull to the east and the one of Benasque to the west.Their towns conserve a great patrimony of peace and tranquility. picture: www.montanuy.es |
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| Dawn
informacion 2008/3/18 18:55
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| the Medieval Bridge on Alcanadre that puts in contact to the town with the highway and whose origins are possible that they belong to a bridge previous of Roman style. |
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| Godforsaken Artaso
informacion 2008/3/13 13:14
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