Culture

Meet the ancient history of the province of Huesca traveling through different cultural manifestations.

Batan Lacort

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The Batan is a hydraulic machinery. Water entering a ditch and a Ferris wheel moves two large wooden mallets alternatively hits wool pieces that were performed on traditional looms so they were softer, thin and thick.
With the installation in the mill Batan de Lacort in Fiscal, the City of the Fsical has managed to recover one of the most original ethnographic pieces of traditional culture, because right now it is the only restored and running in Aragón and one of the few remaining in the country.

Monastery San Juan de la Peña

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The monastery of San Juan de la Peña is a religious complex in the town of Santa Cruz de la Serós, at the south-west of Jaca, in the province of Huesca, Spain. It was one of the most important monasteries in Aragon in the Middle Ages. Its two-level church is partially carved in the stone of the great cliff that overhangs the foundation. San Juan de la Peña means “Saint John of the Cliff”.
The lower church includes some mozarabic architectural surviving elements, although most of the parts of the monastery (including the impressive cloister, under the great rock) are Romanesque.

Loarre Castle

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Loarre Castle is a fortress in Loarre, Spain. The complex was built largely during the 11th and 12th centuries, when its position on the frontier between Christian and Muslim lands gave it strategic importance. The first of the two major building programs began ca. 1020, when Sancho el Mayor (r. 1063–94) reconquered the surrounding lands from the Muslims. At least three towers, two of which survive, the keep (Torre del Homenaje) and the “Tower of the Queen” (Torre de la Reina), as well as a chapel dedicated to Saint Mary of Valverde and connecting walls are attributed to this campaign.

Royal Monastery of San Victorián

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The Royal Monastery of San Victorián is a monastic complex located in the town of Los Molinos, in the municipality of El Pueyo de Araguás, in the Sobrarbe. It is located at 1200 m altitude in the foothills of the Sierra Ferrera, which highlights the Peña Montañesa, 14 km from the village of Aínsa.
This is a complex composed of the monastic residence, the cloister; the northern wing disappeared with the construction of the new church, the cloister adjacent rooms and other facilities for the life of the monastery (warehouses, silos, garden …). It is all surrounded by walls except thewestern side.

Abizanda Tower

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Castle or Tower of Abizanda. It is located in the Aragonese village of the same name, belonging to the region of Sobrarbe, in the province of Huesca. Abizanda tower, 24 meters high, is one of the most spectacular in the Alto Aragon. Its construction is associated with Lombard masters, the oldest Romanesque style. It has been declared of cultural interest.
Abizanda Castle was originated in the period of Sancho III the Great, particularly in 1023, which built a defense line with towers and castles to control the border area against the territories of Muslim domination.

San Pedro Cathedral of Jaca

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The Cathedral of St Peter the Apostle is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jaca located in Jaca, province of Huesca, Spain.
It is the first Romanesque cathedral built in Aragon and one of the oldest in the Iberian peninsula. Its current appearance is the result of later additions and modifications introduced especially in modern times. The cathedral was erected by will of King Sancho Ramírez, who, after renovating in Rome his vassal oath to the Pope (1068), had obtained by the latter the right to establish the episcopal seat in Jaca, then capital of the Kingdom of Aragon.

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