Castiello de Jaca

Castiello de Jaca municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Huesca
Comarca :	Jacetania
Coordinates	42 ° 38 ′  N , 0 ° 33 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 38 ′  N , 0 ° 33 ′  W
Area :	17.43 km²
Residents :	243 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	13.94 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	22710
Municipality number  ( INE ):	22086

San Miguel Church

Castiello de Jaca is a Spanish town in the western Pyrenees on the edge of the Camino de Santiago . It is located in the Comarca Jacetania in the province of Huesca of the autonomous community of Aragon and is the capital of the municipality of the same name ( Municipio ). The place Aratorés also belongs to this .

The village was built on a hill, around the eponymous castle, which has now disappeared, and has retained its irregular medieval layout.

Attractions

• San Miguel Church, Romanesque in origin but largely rebuilt
• Romanesque hermitage of Santa Juliana at the southern exit of the village
• Santa María de Iguácel Church from the 11th century

population

Number of inhabitants

year	1842	1877	1930	1991	2007
Residents	235	559	544	139	205

literature

• Míllan Bravo Lozano: Practical pilgrim guide. The Camino de Santiago. Editorial Everest, Léon 1994, ISBN 84-241-3835-X .
• 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. 211-216.

Web links

Commons : Castiello de Jaca  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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).

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