Chalamera

Chalamera is a municipality in the province of Huesca in the autonomous community of Aragon in Spain. It is located in the comarca of Bajo Cinca on the right bank of the river Cinca undam left of the Río Alcanadre.

History

The place is called as Calameran documented in 1098. In 1143 he came to the Hospitallers. The construction of two nuclear power plants failed in 1975 at the protest of the inhabitants of the comarca of Bajo Cinca.

Demographics

Attractions

  • The parish church of San Martín.
  • The Castle of Chalamera, once owned by the Knights Templar.
  • Built by the Knights Templar Romanesque hermitage of Santa María de Chalamera in the form of a Latin cross with semicircular apses and a portal with six Archivolts and capitals with biblical scenes and a Visigoth sarcophagus.

Personalities

  • The writer Ramón J. Sender (1901-1982)
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