Sobrarbe

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Location of the Comarca Sobrarbe in Aragon and location of the individual municipalities

Sobrarbe is a comarca ( administrative unit ) in the autonomous region of Aragon in Spain . It is located in the north of the province of Huesca and has an area of ​​2,202.7 km² and 6,854 inhabitants. The main cities are Boltaña and Aínsa ; The latter is the capital of the municipality of Aínsa-Sobrarbe, formed by the amalgamation of several smaller places .

location

The Sobrarbe borders in the west on the Comarca Alto Gállego , in the north on France , in the east on Ribagorza and in the south on the Somontano de Barbastro .

In addition to Aínsa-Sobrarbe and Boltaña, the municipalities of Abizanda , Bárcabo , Bielsa , Broto , Fanlo , Fiscal , La Fueva , Gistaín , Labuerda , Laspuña , Palo , Plan , Puértolas , El Pueyo de Araguás , San Juan de Plan , Tella-Sin and belong Torla-Ordesa to the comarca.

The comarca is in the Aragonese Pyrenees . To the north are the valleys of the rivers Ara , Cinca and Cinqueta and the Bio Valley , to the south the Sierra de Guara and Sierra de Olsón . In the center of the comarca there are various valleys in which Broto, Fiscal, Arcusa and La Fueva are located. The Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park (see Ordesa and Monte Perdido ) is also part of the comarca.

County and Kingdom of Sobrarbe

The Sobrarbe was one of the three counties that formed the original Kingdom of Aragon after 1035 . The county belonged to the Spanish Marches of Charlemagne, whose history is in the dark, but which is related to legends about Íñigo Arista of Pamplona, ​​the first king of Navarre and apparently also Count of Sobrarbe.

In the 10th century, the county of Sobrarbe became part of the county of Ribagorza . Sancho III. of Navarre annexed this county between 1016 and 1019, claiming that he was descended from Dadildis de Le Pailhars . For the time after his death (1035) he divided his kingdom among his sons, whose third, Gonzalo Sánchez, became king of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza. After the death of Gonzalo (around 1038) the area passed to his brother Ramiro I , which constituted the original territory of the Kingdom of Aragon, consisting of Jacetania (including today's Comarca Alto Gállego ), Sobrarbe and Ribagorza.

Attractions

At the place Tella there is a large stone grave (dolmen) from the Neolithic Age . Apart from the many natural beauties, there are several Romanesque churches in the Sobrarbe in partly abandoned villages (see web links).

literature

Web links

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