Binacua
| Santa Cruz de la Serós municipality: Binacua | |||
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 Los Santos Ángeles Custodios Church
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| Autonomous Community : |
 Aragon
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| Province : | Huesca | ||
| Comarca : | Jacetania | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 33 ′ N , 0 ° 42 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 760 msnm | ||
| Residents : | 34 (2015) INE | ||
| Postal code : | 22792 | ||
| Area code: | 22209000100 | ||
Binacua is a northern Spanish town with around 30 inhabitants in the foothills of the Pyrenees in the province of Huesca in the autonomous community of Aragon .
location
Binacua is a district in the northwest of the municipality of Santa Cruz de la Serós . The village is at an altitude of about 760 m .
history
The place was first mentioned in a document in 992; old place names were Binaqua , Uinaqua , Vinaqua and Vinaque .
Attractions
The Romanesque parish church of Los Santos Ángeles Custodios , built from broken stone and field stones and covered with natural stone slabs ( Spanish pizarras ), is - a patronage that is otherwise only to be found in the Spanish colonial empire - consecrated to the Guardian Angels and dates from the 12th century. The portal tympanum , protected by an anteroom, shows an ornamental richness that is unusual for a country church. Inside, the natural stone vision, a Romanesque font (pila bautismal) , several animal capitals and an archaic figure of a dragon slayer are impressive .
literature
- Cayetano Enríquez de Salamanca : Rutas del Románico en la provincia de Huesca . Enríquez de Salamanca Editor, 2nd edition, Madrid 1993, ISBN 84-398-9582-8 , p. 54.
- Enciclopedia del Románico en Aragón: Huesca. Fundación Santa María la Real del Patrimonio Histórico, Volume I (Jacetania), Aguilar del Campoo 2016, ISBN 978-84-15072-94-2 , pp. 181-184.
