Larrosa

Jaca municipality: Larrosa
	Santa Maria de Iguacel
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Huesca
Comarca :	Jacetania
Coordinates	42 ° 38 ′ N , 0 ° 27 ′ W Coordinates: 42 ° 38 ′ N , 0 ° 27 ′ W
Residents :	0 ()

Larrosa is a Spanish town in the Pyrenees in the Huesca province of the autonomous community of Aragon . He belongs to the Jaca community . Larrosa is 1140 meters above sea level . The village on the edge of the Valle de la Garcipollera had to be abandoned in the 1960s because of the construction of the Yesa dam ; the area was afforested to counteract soil erosion and thus the silting up of the dam.

Attractions

Romanesque church of San Bartolomé , only preserved as a ruin
Santa María de Iguácel , Romanesque church from the 11th century

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. 47.
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. 339-340.

Web links

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

Description at despobladosenhuesca (accessed on May 22, 2013)