Ayerbe

Ayerbe
	Ayerbe Palace
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Huesca
Comarca :	Hoya de Huesca
Coordinates	42 ° 17 ′ N , 0 ° 41 ′ W Coordinates: 42 ° 17 ′ N , 0 ° 41 ′ W
Height :	582 msnm
Area :	63.89 km²
Residents :	1,009 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	15.79 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	22800
Municipality number ( INE ):	22039
administration
Mayor :	José Antonio Sarasa Torralba (PSOE)
Website :	www.ayerbe.es

Ayerbe is a Spanish municipality in the province of Huesca in the autonomous region of Aragon .

Ayerbe is located in the comarca of Hoya de Huesca . It is located at an altitude of 528 m in the center of Somontano , about 28 km from Huesca . Ayerbe has a station on the railway line from Madrid to Jaca and Canfranc .

The place has two elongated squares and is grouped around the former palace of the Marqueses of Ayerbe (16th century) and an ensemble of buildings.

Population development

1900	1910	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1981	1986	1992	1999	2004	2005	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
2,546	2,523	2,480	2,430	2,409	2,180	1,895	1,356	1,328	1,198	1,111	1,092	1,097	1,111	1,126	1,125	1,119	1,125

Torre de San Pedro

Attractions

Palacio de los Marqueses de Urriés , built in the 15th century ( Bien de Interés Cultural )
Torre de San Pedro , tower of a demolished church from the 12th century (Bien de Interés Cultural)

Personalities

The medicine Nobel Prize laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) lived for ten years in Ayerbe, where the Museum Santiago Ramón y Cajal is dedicated to him.

Web links

Commons : Ayerbe - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).

[1] Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).