Luesia

Luesia municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Zaragoza
Comarca :	Cinco Villas
Coordinates	42 ° 22 ′  N , 1 ° 1 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 22 ′  N , 1 ° 1 ′  W
Height :	810  msnm
Area :	126.83 km²
Residents :	288 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	2.27 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	50619
Municipality number  ( INE ):	50148
administration
Mayor :	Jaime Lacosta Aragüés (PP)

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Luesia is a Spanish municipality in the province of Zaragoza in the autonomous region of Aragon . It belongs to the Comarca Cinco Villas ( Five Small Towns ). The community had 288 inhabitants on January 1, 2019. It lies above the Arba de Luesia, one of the headwaters of the Río Arba , at the foot of the Sierra de Santo Domingo. The north of the municipality reaches a height of up to 1,303 m (Puig Moné).

history

The place is mentioned for the first time in 1014 in the Cartulario de San Juan de la Peña and belonged to the judicial district of Sos del Rey Católico .

Population development

1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1981	1991	2001	2009
1,573	1,702	1,715	1,790	1,503	1,438	1,221	801	574	462	413	377

Attractions

• Luesia Castle (11th to 12th centuries)
• Romanesque parish church of San Salvador
• Romanesque church of San Esteban , now a cultural center
• Virgen de Puyal Hermitage
• Gothic cross of San Severo
• Former Jewish Quarter ( Judería )
• Pre-Romanesque monastery Corral de Calvo in the Sierra de Santo Damingo
• Hermitage of Santa Eugenia (pre-Romanesque)
• Virgen del Campo Hermitage
• town hall
• Medieval hospital
• Medieval town center

Town twinning

•  France Geloux

Web links

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

• San Salvador Church
• San Esteban Church
• Corral de Calvo monastery

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).