It´s a village of the Pyrenees, placed 20 km of Jaca, it has 150 habitants.
Historically the most important thing that happened there was the foundation of the Monastery of Saint Mary for the king Ramiro I, and his daughters lived there: infanta Teresa, Urraca and Sancha.
Infanta Sancha was a very important person for this village. She made a testament and they inherited numerous goods.
This village has two important churches : St Caprasio and Saint Mary, the two of Romanesque style.
The constructions of the houses are in the habit of being with few windows in order that the heat does not escape, that to the being a village or mountain is very important detail this one. Also chimneys have witch scarers, that are protection symbols in order that there was not entering any evil to the house.
About the house they had a small garden that vegetables were growing in for consumption, to the suburbs of the village, there were the gardens that are big extensions of area where they were growing flax and linen and then in the looms they were making and sheets. There are numerous fruit trees, like apple, pear trees...In the surroundings of the village the forest was where the people hunted the rabbits, wild boars,...also in autumn they were looking for mushrooms.
Historically the most important thing that happened there was the foundation of the Monastery of Saint Mary for the king Ramiro I, and his daughters lived there: infanta Teresa, Urraca and Sancha.
Infanta Sancha was a very important person for this village. She made a testament and they inherited numerous goods.
This village has two important churches : St Caprasio and Saint Mary, the two of Romanesque style.
The constructions of the houses are in the habit of being with few windows in order that the heat does not escape, that to the being a village or mountain is very important detail this one. Also chimneys have witch scarers, that are protection symbols in order that there was not entering any evil to the house.
About the house they had a small garden that vegetables were growing in for consumption, to the suburbs of the village, there were the gardens that are big extensions of area where they were growing flax and linen and then in the looms they were making and sheets. There are numerous fruit trees, like apple, pear trees...In the surroundings of the village the forest was where the people hunted the rabbits, wild boars,...also in autumn they were looking for mushrooms.
Can you show us a witch-scarer?
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