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ROUTE OF THE MONASTERIES IN ARAGON: THE MONASTERIES IN HUESCA.

Sigena.

The monastery is a National Monument located in Villanueva de Sigena (Huesca). It can be partially visited with a guide. Information about admission times is available in the monastery.

This solemn and huge female monastery was founded by Queen Doña Sancha, the wife of Alfonso II. It was the most important of its time in Aragon.

It began to be built by the end of the 12^th century, and it belonged to the Order of Saint John of Jerusalemn.

Apart from the nuns there was a group of monks in charge of the worship and of administration tasks, though they were under the prioress' authority. The monastery is a Romanesque work, with some parts belonging to the transitional period to the Gothic style. It has a church, a cloister and the rooms, together with the Priory Palace. The church has a Latin cross plan with one nave, crossing with a surprising dome and apse with oven vaults. In the outside some decorations on the windows and the impressive doorway with fourteen archivolts are outstanding.

The chapter house ruined during the Civil War, as well as the rest of the monastery- was decorated with the finest frescoes of the Spanish late Romanesque (around 1220) and covered by a magnificent Mudejar coffered ceiling, destroyed by fire. The remains of these paintings are kept in the Art Museum of Cataluña, in Barcelona.

After years of neglect, the monastic life has recently been resumed in the monastery.

Near Sigena, you can visit Sena, with numerous archaeological sites, and Sariñena, with a lake where migratory birds nest.

9 km. to the south, near Lanaja, is the Carthusian monastery of Nuestra Señora de las Fuentes, monumental Baroque building from 1731, decorated with mural paintings by Manuel Bayeu.

Route of the Monasteries in Aragón - HUESCA - TERUEL - ZARAGOZA - OTHERS MONASTERIES

Tourist Routes in Aragon

Ample your information on Aragon

If you want to extend your information on Aragon you can begin crossing another interesting route is the Mudejar, Patrimony of the Humanity, also you can extend your cultural knowledge on Aragon examining its municipal and institutional heraldry without forgetting, of course, some of its emblematics figures as Saint George Pattern of Aragon also book of Aragon.

Also Aragon enjoys a diverse and varied Nature where passing by plants, animals or landscapes we can arrive at a fantastic bestiario that lives in its monuments.

The information will not be complete without a stroll by its three provinces: Zaragoza, Teruel and Huesca and his shines, with shutdown in some of its spectacular landscapes like Ordesa, the Moncayo or by opposition the Ebro.

Also you can dedicarte to the intangible ones: from the legend compilation that also does to universal Aragon you can persecute the presence of the Santo Grial in Aragon.

Francisco Javier Mendivil Navarro

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